Below are excerpts of the interview with the
BEM President:
Since you assumed the post of President of BEM
in 2017, there were many activities organised by
BEM. Would you like to share with us those that
impressed you most?
I am pleased to mention the bulk registration of
engineering graduates with local universities. Based
on the Registration of Engineers Act 1967 (Revised
2015), it is compulsory for engineering graduates to
register with BEM. The list of universities has grown
and we now have 20 universities signing MOU on
bulk registration with BEM.
Of course, the greatest achievement is that
our engineering education is now on par with
international universities, now that BEM is
signatory to three Accords (Sydney Accord, Dublin
Accord and Washington Accord). In addition, BEM
was appointed as Chairman of the Network of
Accreditation Bodies for Engineering Education in
Asia (NABEEA) for two terms (2017-2019).
ACCREDITATION - Sydney Accord & Dublin
Accord
BEM was accepted as Provisional Signatory
of Sydney Accord and Dublin Accord on June
21, 2017 at the International Engineering
Alliance Meeting held in Alaska.
BEM was admitted as Full Signatory of Sydney
Accord and Dublin Accord in June 2018 at
International Engineering Alliance Meeting
2018 (IEAM2018), London, UK.
BEM has made remarkable progress and
organised many programmes and activities. We
had the first BEM Open Day and the first visit by
the Minister of Works.
Signing of MoU on Bulk Graduate Engineer Registration with 20 local universities
Institutions of Higher Learning
1. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
2. Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL)
3. Universiti Malaya (UM)
4. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
5. Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM)
6. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM)
7. Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP)
8. Universiti Multimedia (MMU)
9. Taylor’s University
10. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
11. Curtin University
12. UCTS Sarawak
13. Swinburne University Of Technology, Sarawak Campus
14. Asia Pacific University of Technology (APU)
15. Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
16. Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (IIUM)
17. Universiti Malaysia Sabah
18. Universiti Sains Malaysia
19. UCSI University
20. Universiti Tenaga Nasional
Date
2013
19 universities in which:
18 universities in 2017.
1 university in 2018
(UNITEN)
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