• A Professional Engineer (in Singapore) is one whose name is in the register of Professional Engineers administered by the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore
• Privileges: to engage in professional engineering work
• Every registered professional engineer shall observe and be guided by the Code of
Professional Conduct and Ethics
• Annual fee for Practicing Certificate ($150) • Professional development requirements
• PEB is a statutory body and it registers and licenses professional engineers, as well as corporations which supply professional
engineering services in Singapore.
• The Professional Engineers Board (PEB) regulates the practice of professional
engineering work in the 3 prescribed branches of professional engineering work.
– Civil engineering
– Electrical engineering – Mechanical engineering
Professional Engineers Board
Privileges
• 10. —(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall engage in
any of the prescribed branches of professional engineering work in Singapore or draw or prepare any plan, sketch, drawing, design,
specification or other document relating to any of the prescribed branches of professional engineering work in Singapore unless the person —
• (a) is a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate authorising him to engage in that branch of professional engineering work;
• (b) is under the direction or supervision of a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate authorising the
professional engineer to engage in that branch of professional engineering work; or
• (c) is authorised by the Board to work in collaboration (but without a right to any independent practice) with a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate authorising the registered professional
Privileges
• 10 - (2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall sign
and submit to a building authority or to a public authority (as defined in section 3 (2)) —
– (a) any plan, sketch, drawing, design, specification or other document relating to any professional engineering work in Singapore; or
– (b) any report on or a certificate or other document relating to any professional engineering work in Singapore which is required by any written law to be signed by a professional engineer,
• unless the person is a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate authorising him to engage in such
profession engineering work; and any document that is signed in contravention of this subsection shall be invalid.
Privileges
• 10 - (3) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall use verbally or otherwise —
– (a) the words “professional engineer” or any additions to or abbreviation or derivative of those words in connection with his designation;
– (b) the word “engineer” or the abbreviation “Er.” or “Engr.” as a title before his name; or
– (c) any word, name or designation that will lead to the belief that the person is a registered professional engineer,
Professional Engineering Work
• Any professional service, consultation,
investigation, evaluation, planning, design, or responsible supervision of construction or
operation in connection with any public or privately owned public utilities, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, works or
projects wherein the public interest and welfare, or the safeguarding of life, public health or
property is concerned or involved, and that
requires the application of engineering principles and data
Registration of Professional
Engineer
• Recognized academic qualifications,
• Adequate practical experience, and
• Pass prescribed examinations.
Academic Qualification
• A degree or qualification as listed in the
Professional Engineers (Approved
Qualifications) Notification.
• Other qualifications may be considered
by the PEB on a case by case basis.
Practical Experience
• An applicant would need to acquire not
less than 4 years’ of practical experience
after obtaining the approved
qualifications.
• The practical experience should be in
such professional engineering work and
at such level of responsibility as to be
Examinations
• An applicant would also need to sit and pass the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination and Practice of Professional Engineering
Examination conducted by PEB.
• A person may sit for the Fundamentals of
Engineering Examination after he has obtained an approved degree or qualification.
• After he has passed that examination and acquired not less than 4 years’ of practical experience he may sit for the Practice of Professional Engineering Examination. • Open book exams
Fundamentals of Engineering
Examinations (FEE)
• FEE tests the applicant’s knowledge of
fundamental engineering subjects, basically undergraduate materials
• Examination fee - $350
• Part 1 (3 hours) on core engineering subjects – MCQ
• Part 2 (3 hours) on core/elective subjects – 5/9 civil, 5/7 M&E
Professional Practice Examination
( PPE)
• PPE tests the applicant’s ability to apply his knowledge and experience in professional
engineering practice, and his knowledge of the rules and regulations regulating the practice of professional engineering in civil, electrical or mechanical engineering.
• Part 1 (2 hours) common paper, essay type on ethics and general practices, 4 out of 6
questions
• Part 2 (4 hours), practice questions, compulsory plus choice
Results of Fundamentals of Engineering Examination Sep 2006
The Fundamentals Of Engineering Examination was conducted on
Branch of Engineering No of candidates No of Passes Pass Rate Civil Engineering 60 35 58% Electrical Engineering 47 31 64% Mechanical Engineering 21 14 67% Overall 128 80 63%
Practising Certificate
• For a professional engineer to engage in
professional engineering work in Singapore , he would need to have a practising certificate (PC). • PC, issued by PEB, is renewal on an annual
basis and authorizes a PE to engage in
professional engineering work within the branch of engineering that he is qualified to practise.
• As part of the process of renewing his PC, a professional engineer is required to fulfill
requirements relating to continuing professional development.
Registration of Specialist
Professional Engineers
• PEB also registers specialist professional engineers in specialized branches of
engineering.
• At the moment, a professional engineer in civil engineering who has a valid practicing certificate and meets requirements in terms of
qualifications and practical experience in geotechnical engineering may apply to be
registered as a specialist professional engineer in geotechnical engineering.
