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ENGINEERING COUNCIL OF SOUTH AFRICA EASTERN CAPE. 04 JULY 2014. PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS. Worldwide - Based on two requirements : - Academic entry level qualification( Educational standard). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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ENGINEERING COUNCIL OF SOUTH AFRICA

EASTERN CAPE

04 JULY 2014

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PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

Worldwide - Based on two requirements :

- Academic entry level qualification( Educational standard).

- Three years of practical / technical post qualification training at the appropriate Engineering level for the category of registration concerned (Experience standards for category of registration concerned).

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Step 1:“Candidate” Registration in order to have qualifications evaluated.

o All applicants with non-accredited and non South African qualifications have to apply for “Qualification Evaluation” which is done by ECSA’s Qualification Examinations Committee(QEC).

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PROCEDURE TO REGISTER WITH ECSA

Candidate Engineer BSc(Eng)/BEng

Candidate Eng Techno BTech

Candidate Cert Eng Cert of Competency

Candidate Eng Techni NDip

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Professional Development Model

AccreditedProgramme

Training And

Experience

Practice

Meet Standardfor Engineering

Education

Meet StandardFor Professional

Competency

Candidate Registration

Graduation

Professional Registration

Observe Code of Conduct and

Maintain Competence through CPD

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ENGINEERING TEAM It is useful to understand the engineering team

concept to explain how the different registrations work together. It must be stressed that those registered are “ different but of equal value” : Each has a vital part to play in the Engineering Team, a point emphasised by ECSA

The focus and therefore the balance of the engineering team will be determined by the scope and business of the employing organisation.

All contribute in some way to the creation of products, systems, procedures, and the rendering of engineering services.

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Experience standards characterised by:

• Activities that are essentially intellectual• Analysing and solving complex problems • Developing and applying new technologies

creatively and innovatively• Exercising Professional judgement• Managing resources• (Dreamers)

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER (Pr Eng)

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PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGISTS (Pr Tech Eng)

Experience standards characterised by:

• Solving broadly defined problems through application of proven techniques and procedures

• Developing, maintaining and managing today’s technologies

• Exercising Professional judgement • Managing resources• (Doers)

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PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN (Pr Techni Eng)

Experience standards characterised by:

• Solving well defined problems using proven techniques and procedures

• Supervision and technical responsibility• Contributing to implementation, operation and

maintenance of products, equipment, processes and services

• (Fixers)

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OBJECTIVE OF TRAINING PROGRAMMES

Training programmes must provide for the development of professional attributes and core competencies common to all CE’s regardless of the type of work undertaken or the specific direction in which their interests take them.

Employer to cater for common themes, as well as specific types of work done in the organization, e.g. civil engineering -

Larger employers with separate functional departments (water, geotechnical, structural, etc.) may have separately tailored training programmes for each functional department.

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HOW AND WHEN TO REGISTER

Step 2: Training and Professional Development while employed

(Current system in place for the engineer and technologist categories only)

Commitment and Undertaking (CU)

• Employer CEO/Chief Engineer registers CU

• Undertakes to train “candidate” persons in accordance with ECSA’s policy and discipline specific guidelines

• Ensures internal training programme is in place and being implemented

• So far 573 C&Us signed by employers of engineers countrywide and 3 773 mentors listed doing training.

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Was implemented as from April 2013 for the Engineer category and not before October 2014 for the Technologist and Technician categories

New policy guideline documents will substitute current documents.

Moving towards electronic system of applying for registration during the second half of 2014.

NEW REGISTRATION SYSTEM

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New Registration Process Guideline Documents

New Guideline format• R-01-P Policy on Registration of Persons in Professional Categories• R-02-PE Competency Standard for Registration as a Pr Engineer• R-03-PE Processing of Applications for Registration as Candidate

Engineer and Professional Engineer• R-04-P Training and Mentoring Guide for Professional Categories• R-08-PE Guide to the Competency Standards for Registration as a

Professional Engineer

R-05-PE Discipline-specific Training Guidelines

E-17-P Criteria and Processes for Recognition of Educational Qualifications

(all professional categories)

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Registration System Changes

• Standards: moving from training focus to performance focus, e.g.– From: The work must be aimed at investigating engineering

problems requiring judgement– To: Demonstrate ability to define, investigate and analyse

engineering problems at a defined level against competency standards

• Policies: the introduction of competency standards maintains the standards expected under the present Policy Statements R2/1A, R2/1B and the relevant Discipline Specific Guidelines, but requires a changed approach to documentation. The present four outcomes used in Policy Statement R2/1A, all form part of the new 11 outcomes or competency standards.

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TRANSITION TO NEW REGISTRATION SYSTEM

The new system for the engineer category will be phased in over a period of two years, commencing as from April 2013. 

Candidate engineers who trained  under the current (legacy) registration system will be allowed to apply in terms of the current  requirements/ documentation. However, the current requirements for civil candidates of  writing two essays at the professional review and mechanical candidates to hand in a design report and for electrical/electronic engineers to hand in forms AD7, AD8 and AD9, would then still apply.

               

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TRANSITION PHASE continued…

•  The two systems would therefore be run concurrently for a period of two years to phase out all “previous system” applicants.

• All applicants submitting after 1 April 2015 would therefore also have to provide New Registration System evidence of competence and will be assessed against Competency Standard R-02-PE.     

•  Alternatively, candidates who trained under the current system  would have to apply in terms of the  new  system requirements/documentation, but they would have to supply the New Registration System evidence of competence to be assessed against competency standard R-02-PE.        

 

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ECSA Professional Competencies – where training must lead

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CEA-Level

1: Use Engineering

and ContextualKnowledge

3: Synthesize Solutions

2: Analyse Engineering

Problems

CEP-Level

A

7: Meet regulatory

requirements6: Address Impacts on People and

Environment

C

10: Be Responsible

9:Exercise

Judgement

8:Act Ethically

DoR

D

11: Life-long Learning

E

A Outcome GroupCEP = Complex Engineering ProblemCEA = Complex Engineering ActivityDoR = Degree of Responsibility

4: Manage Engineering Activities

5: Communicate

EffectivelyB

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PLANNING PRINCIPLES :TRAINING PROGRAMMES

Two principles must be followed by supervisors and mentors when planning training programmes for candidates :

1. A variety of work activities is necessary for the proper development of a candidate.

Variety may be obtained at the various stages in the lifecycle of an engineering activity : conception, planning, design, construction, implementation, operation and closure.

Associated with this lifecycle are specific functions, including commissioning, testing, improving, trouble-shooting. Candidate should experience several stages in the lifecycle of a project or projects.

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PLANNING PRINCIPLES :TRAINING PROGRAMMES (cont…)

2. Increasing responsibility and accountability within the organization must be imposed on and accepted by the candidate until he/she is capable of accepting professional responsibility in making and executing engineering decisions at the full professional level.

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Progression throughout the candidacy period

Level Nature of work: the candidate

Responsibility of Candidate

Level of Supervisor/Mentor Support

1. Exposure …undergoes induction, observes processes, work of competent practitioners

No responsibility Mentor explains challenges and forms of solution

2. Assist …performs specific processes under close supervision

Limited responsibility for work output

Supervisor/Mentor coaches, offers feed back

3. Participate …performs specific processes as directed with limited supervision

Full responsibility for supervised work

Supervisor progressively reduces support, but monitors outputs

4. Contribute …performs specific work with detailed approval of work outputs

Full responsibility to supervisor for immediate quality of work

Candidate articulates own reasoning and compares it with those of supervisor

5. Perform … works in team without supervision, recommends work outputs

Level of responsibility to supervisor is appropriate to a registered person

Candidate takes on problem solving without support, at most limited guidance

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PROGRESSION OF TRAINING

• At each of the 5 levels of responsibility, the table shows the nature of the candidate’s work, ranging from being oriented at level A to working at the degree of responsibility required for registration, namely level E or Performing

• By the end of the training period, the candidate must have performed individually and as a team member at the level of problem solving and engineering activity required for registration and performed at responsibility level E for at least twelve months.

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REGISTRATION PROCESS

• Registration process for all categories of registration basically the same and will

become even more uniform when the new system is implemented.

• Exception: Pr Eng category which has a compulsory professional review.

• Other categories have the discretion to call applicants in for an interview

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APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS (EXISTING SYSTEM)

o Personal details (Forms A1.1 & 1.2 engineers and B.1& B.2 technologists and C.1 & C.2 technicians)

o Summary of Training Periods (A2.2, B2.2 & C2.2 respectively)

o Training/Experience Reports(approx 2000 words)(A 2.1, B2.1, C2.1)

o Confidential Referee Reports

o Project Report/Design Report

o Certified copies of qualification documents (and transcripts of subjects take for technologist category)

o Proof of membership of Voluntary Association (if applicable)

o Application fee

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TIPS ON EXPERIENTIAL REPORTS

• SELL YOURSELF

• WRITE in the FIRST PERSON

• DETAIL what YOU have DONE

• DETAIL YOUR level of RESPONSIBILITY

• DO NOT GENERALISE

• ALL PERIODS must be COVERED

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THANK YOU!Website : www.ecsa.co.za

Email : [email protected]

Tel No : (011) 607 9500

Offices : Waterview Corner,

Building 2 Ernest

Oppenheimer Avenue,

Bruma

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WHY REGISTER?

• Most important: Engineering Risk

• Engineering activity has potentially adverse consequences and therefore must be carried out-

Responsibly and ethically

Economically

Using available resources efficiently

Safeguarding health and safety

In an environment sound and sustainable way, and

Managing risks throughout the entire lifecycle of a system.

• Engineering is therefore a regulated profession

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WHY REGISTER?

• Peer recognition of Qualification and Experience

• Professional registration = Mark of a true engineering professional

• Public confidence in professional competence

• International recognition

• Marketability in employment market

• Exclusive use of reserved names

• Statutory Empowerment

• Compulsory registration through work reservation

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Sections 18(2) and 18(3) of the Engineering Profession Act:

* Prohibits a person who is not registered in a category from practicing in that category of registration; and

* Permits a person registered in a category to consult in that category.

* Section 26(3) of the Act prohibits a person who is not registered in terms of the Act from performing any kind of work identified for any category of registered persons. The Act in Section 26(4) allows one exception to this prohibition.

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 * The unregistered person may work under the supervision and control of a registered person who must take the responsibility for the work.

* Registered persons taking responsibility for the work of unregistered persons must do so from a fully informed position.

*Must exert active supervision and control, and must approve all critical decisions.

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ALTERNATIVE ROUTE Very onerous

Different accredited qualifications worldwide as benchmark qualifications for different categories

Shortcoming in academic study programme reflects on work output

Considerable longer period of responsible engineering experience to be gained at the appropriate technical/engineering level

CPD courses attended during career contribute a great deal to determine a candidate’s broader exposure to engineering fundamentals and the level at which the candidate operates

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ALTERNATIVE ROUTE CONTINUED…

From below NQF Level 6 to Professional Engineering Technician Level: at least six years ; from Professional Technician to Professional Engineering Technologist level at least eight years of which five must be in a position of high engineering responsibility.

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Engineering Programmes

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Professional Engineering Technician

N Diploma

360

Breadth of Knowledge

Professional Engineering

Technologist

B Tech (Eng)

480

Professional Engineering

B Sc (Eng)/B Eng

560