September_2012
Function of Board of Engineer (BEM)
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Regulate the conduct and ethics of engineering profession to safeguard the
public safety
Undertake accreditation of engineering degree
Undertake training and education of engineer
Publication
Fixing scale of fees
Publication
Source of support for engineer
Mechanism of helping engineer on ethic
Create atmosphere conducive to ethical practice
Compare qualification of professional engineer, temporary and accredited
checker
Temporary engineer
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Minimum 10 years experience of practice
Possess expertise in field that he intends to practice
Physical presence in Malaysia not less than 180 days in one calendar year
Employed as engineer and assigned to specific project by a company
Sponsored by local professional engineer in company
Hold qualification as professional engineer
Accredited Checker
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Professional engineer in civil, structural, or geotechnical engineering
Have 10 years of practical experience in design or construction of building
Adequate hand-on experience in structural or geotechnical
Graduate Engineer
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Recognized academic qualification by EAC, BEM or need to be top up with
master degree by instruction from accredited university
Copy of Mycard, certified true copy of degree and full official transcript
All document must be certified by Professional Engineer who registered with
BEM
September_2011
Ethical view of involvement of non-registered engineer
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All graduates intending to work in Malaysia should first register with BEM
once they obtained their degree certificate.
It is a legal requirement and failure to do so may result in predicament in
future.
In case of Zain, once he obtained his degree, he needs to register directly
with BEM to avoid any tight schedule in future.
BEM only recognized the experience gained by engineering graduate only
after he has registered as a graduate engineer.
Taking account 5 years of engineering experience, Zain has wasted 5 years
worth experience. And should be within that period, he can be professional
engineer which carry title Ir.
Main difference between roles of BEM and IEM
IEM
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Qualify body for professional engineers in Malaysia
It is non-governmental body
Engineering student can join IEM
BEM
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A government body
Qualify body for professional engineers in Malaysia
Only for engineer and engineering graduate
Characteristics of engineer should have
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Sophisticated and specialized skills
Special societies and organization
Contribute significantly to public benefit
Responsibility to public especially safety
Extensive and regulated formal education
Judgment in term of using available material to reach specified objective
Discretion in keeping employers or client intellectual property and business
information confidential
Definition of quality
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Fitness to use (Joseph Juran)
Conformance to requirement (Philip B. Crosby)
Dynamic state associated with product, services, people, process,
environment that meet or exceed customer expectation
September_2013
Roles and responsibility of BEM and IEM in quality of engineer,
requirement to register and recognition of professional status
Professional engineer
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Must be registered as graduate engineer with BEM
Satisfied training requirement with BEM
Complied with all requirement of the Board
Passed Professional Assessment Examination (PAE) of BEM
Residing in Malaysia not less than 6 months
Responsibility of engineer ensuring high standard of profession and
interest of public safety
Key quality of engineer-entrepreneur must possess
Training module to facilitate development of engineer-entrepreneur
September_2011
How professionalism of engineer contribute to environmental protection
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BEM is one of government body that regulate law 127 which environmental
protection.
Professional engineer should well verse in pollution that emitted from their
product and need to be contained within limit. Failure to do so can result in
fines.
Justification of efficient engineer
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Understand the engineers obligation to the public
Practice safety at all times and be sensitive to long term issues
Always try to improve communication and presentation skills
Adopt continuous learning
Six sigma
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A statistical measure of the performance of the process or a product
A goal that reaches near perfection for performance improvement
System of management to achieve lasting business leadership and world
class performance
Six sigma put customer first and use fact and data to drive better solution
Target of six sigma are improving customer satisfaction, reducing cycle time,
and reducing defect.
Tools used in six sigma are DMAIC = define, measure, analyze, improve, and
control
Define customer and requirement, measure thing critical to quality, analyze
baseline, opportunity objectives, and root cause, improve and control process
Roles of engineer in development, protection of environment, and
economical benefit
