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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Professional

Are you ready?


Professional dimension• Profession and professionalism

• Profession– Factual/status – can prove with evidence– License

• Professionalism -> Mentality– Act like a profession (professionalism)– Work with your peer professionals


What is a profession

• Special knowledge and intellectual skills

• Formal education – a degree?

• Professional authority, peer review

• Community sanction and license

• Organization


Professional dimension

• What is the “professional” in your own program?

• In Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering – Chartered/Registered Engineer

• What is yours?


Professional Engineering

Professional Definition: • A profession is “a vocation requiring knowledge of some

department of learning or science.”– Job related

• A professional is one who follows “an occupation as a means of livelihood or gain,” or one who is “engaged in one of the learned professions.”

• Professionalism is exhibited by one of the “professional character, spirit or methods” or the “standing, practice, or methods of a professional as distinguished from an amateur.”


Professionalism

• What is professionalism

• Why it is important?


Professional Engineering

Professionalism

Definition: • American College Dictionary

– Professionalism includes integrity, courtesy, honesty, and willing compliance with the highest ethical standards.

– Professionalism goes beyond observing the engineering profession ethical rules: professionalism sensitively and fairly serves the best interests of the public.


What is Professionalism?


Components of Professionalism


Professionalism• Honor & integrity

• Respect

• Excellence & scholarship

• Caring, compassion & communication

• Leadership

• Responsibility & accountability

• Altruism (利他行為 )


Professionalism

• What is it?

• What is it?


ProfessionalismProfessionals, perspective:

– Trustworthy, competent, respectful, integrity, considerable, empathetic, courteous, dependable, cooperative, committed, well presented, approachable, supportive, accountable, respect for self & others, knowledgeable, responsible, stay-within-professional-boundaries,…

Judge professionalism?– Attitude, values, communication, presentation,

approaches, image, …

So what’s professionalism for Engineers?

Source: Campbell and Taylor, Professionalism in the workspace


What is professionalism?• Case studies• Coroner's Court ruling related to

building collapse accident – 塌樓裁意外官轟屋署求其–又狠批屋宇署職員工作「馬虎」、「求其」、「交行貨」

– http://specials.mingpao.com/cfm/News.cfm?SpecialsID=212&News=c99b72cac60969ec4c93d2dacc0321edc81ed4aeca4377e48c1215e85a


Case studies

• Is being a student a profession?– What is the professionalism of being a

student?


Engineering profession• To recognize the professionalism of the

engineering profession, the title “engineer” is protected by law (factual)

• Everyone can call himself/herself an engineer but cannot use the formal title (CEng, Ir etc) if he/she is not a registered engineer


Engineering Title

• Title


Engineering Title

• P.E. or PE is used in the U.S. • P.Eng. or P.Eng (UK). used in the UK for Professional Engineers

belonging to the Society of Professional Engineers UK (SPE) • P.Eng. is used in Canada, except the province of Quebec. • Eng. (French:ing.) is used in Quebec. • CEng (Chartered Engineer) and IEng (Incorporated Engineer) in the UK &

Republic of Ireland. • CPEng in Australia and New Zealand • Ing. in Germany (pre-nominal letters) • Ir. in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia (Ir. germen: Ingenieur or Engineer)

• C.Eng in India Institution of Engineering under Royal Charter • EurIng (European Engineer) in Europe, used as a pre-nominal (similar to

Dr. or Prof). • Ing.P.Eur (European Professional Engineer) in Europe.


About HKIE• The HKIE is a qualifying body for 20

disciplines currently: Aircraft; Biomedical; Building; Building Services; Chemical; Civil; Control, Automation & Instrumentation; Electrical; Electronics; Environmental; Fire; Gas; Geotechnical; Information; Logistics & Transportation; Manufacturing & Industrial; Marine & Naval Architecture; Materials; Mechanical and Structural


Hong Kong Institution of Engineers

• To promote the advancement of engineering and • To facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas. • To provide a broad range of services to members,

– to assist them in developing their careers, and

– to play their full role in contributing to society.

• To maintain a high standard of the profession, and • to raise the standing and visibility of engineers.



• Founded in 1947 (bringing together engineers of different disciplines for their common good).

• Incorporated by Government Ordinance in 1975. • Membership is now the primary qualification for

employment as a professional engineer (Ir.) in Hong Kong.

• In June 1995, joined the Washington Accord as one of the signatories. The engineering degrees accredited by the HKIE are recognised by all other signatories including Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and the United States.



• In 2001 and later, Japan, Germany, Malaysia and Singapore were admitted as a provisional signatory to the Washington Accord.

• In 2003, the HKIE was verified by the Sydney Accord as a full signatory. Under this Accord, Higher Diploma and Associate Degree Programmes accredited by the HKIE are recognised by other signatories including Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom, [and USA from 2009]



Engineers should have acquired a clear understanding of: (a) The importance of adhering to the HKIE's Rules of Conduct (b) The need to make appropriate provision in every engineering project to ensure safety and reliability; and environmental factors;(c) Their responsibilities to their employer, their colleagues, other engineers and the community at large;(d) The importance and relevance of knowledge to the design, manufacture, construction, operation and maintenance of the particular products or services with which the employing organisation is concerned;



(e) The general problems affecting an industrial organisation, such as the:- - Financial, economic, commercial and statutory limitations;- Limitations imposed by the workforce, machines and the materials available;- Operation and maintenance requirements that

may affect engineering decisions;(f) The vital importance of good industrial relations;(g) Promote good personal relationship at all levels

within an organisation;



(h) The importance of communication, and of being able to discuss inter-related activities and problems with members in other branches of engineering;

(i) The need to exercise sound judgement and to accept responsibility; and

(j) The need to develop their abilities to the best advantage of the profession.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trPezR2Nmeg&feature=related


Why want to be registered?Or why not?

• To register – need to pay the membership fee!!!

• HKIE $1460 per year for a member (as in 2012) – still $1460!

• http://www.hkie.org.hk/eng/html/qual&membership/membershipsub.asp


Why register• LIFTS AND ESCALATORS (SAFETY) ORDINANCE -

SECT 11A• Duties of registered lift engineers or escalator

engineers (Past version on 30/06/1997). (1) A registered lift engineer or registered escalator engineer shall in carrying out any lift works or escalator works, as the case may be- (a) ensure that the lift works or escalator works comply with the requirements of this Ordinance; and (Amended 44 of 1993 s. 4) (b) examine the lifts or escalators in question and test the safety equipment provided therefore and examine and test any lifts or escalators to which major alterations have been made, in accordance with this Ordinance.


Why?

• Job

• PE


How?

• In HK, to become a “professional engineer” it can be done by taking an accredited degree program and then 4 years of graduate training as prescribed by HKIE

• http://www.hkie.org.hk/eng/html/qualNmembership/progaccredlist.asp


How to become a chartered engineer in HK

• Member is a qualified professional engineer who has:– attained the age of 25,– obtained an accredited/recognised degree or the

equivalent in an acceptable engineering discipline,– received adequate training (could Scheme A),– had sufficient responsible experience, and– successfully completed the Institution's Professional

Assessment or the equivalent– http://www.hkie.org.hk/docs/downloads/membership/f

orms/M3.pdf


Example in academic requirements• Graduates from different program may need to fulfill

additional requirements in order to qualify for the academic recognition. – Example if you want to do scheme A training in Building Service

s


Programs accredited by HKIE

• http://www.hkie.org.hk/eng/html/qualNmembership/progaccredlist.asp


ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS• SECTION 2 ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS• Academic qualifications that meet the requirements of

the Institution for Member are:• (i) a first degree (Honours) accredited by the Institution;

or• (ii) an accredited first degree as listed in the

Washington Accord; or• (iii) other acceptable qualifications, such as passes in

Engineering Council (UK) Part II– Examinations including the "Engineer in Society", ie. Part II (A),

(B) and (C) up to and including year 2001 and passes in the Engineering Council Postgraduate Diploma in and after year 2002.


Training• Scheme A – training

– Formal Training Route ( 2 years)– followed by one year of responsible experience

• General Experience Route– a minimum of five years of general experience followed by one

year of responsible experience

• Mature Route for Candidates over 35 years of age– 15 years progressive experience (without recognized

academic qualifications)– Minimum 6 years experience


PROFESSIONAL ASSESSMENT• Interview and essay writing are the two major

parts in the Professional Assessment process• The essay writing is intended primarily as a test

of the candidate's knowledge and experience in engineering practice and management as well as the broader issues of the engineer in community. It would also demonstrate the candidate's ability to marshall his thoughts and to express his ideas in a clear and concise manner in written English


Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Record

• A record of CPD should be provided. For candidates under the Formal Training Route, a minimum average of 45 hours (or 7.5 days) per year calculated from September 1994 or from the commencing date of Scheme A, up to the time of the Professional Assessment is required. For candidates under the General Experience Route, a minimum average of 45 hours per year for the 6 years immediately prior to their application for Professional Assessment is required


CPD

• CPD may include technical conferences, seminars, symposia, courses, organized site visits and meetings of professional bodies.

• CPD is also required in order to keep your registration with HKIE


Why you need to study “Society and the Engineer”

• It is required by the accrediting body of your program

• In the old days, the accreditation was done by IEE (now it is IET)

• IEE in the old days required such a subject (mainly to test the use of English)

• After 1997, HKIE became the accreditation body in HK

• In UK, no such subject in the engineering curriculum ??!!


Reference

• http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/undergraduate/syllabus#


Chartered Engineer (UK)

• Engineering Council (UK), on behalf of the United Kingdom engineering profession is

• Established in 1960s and 1970s by the former Council of Engineering Institutions and Engineering Registration Board.

• Maintains a Register of Professional Engineers, grants the titles Engineering Technician, Incorporated Engineer and Chartered Engineer.

• Engineers are required to be a member of a nominated Engineering Institution Engineering Council (UK).

http://www/uk-spec.org.uk/files/CE_IE


The Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK)

• The IET (formerly known as IEE) is licensed by the Engineering Council (UK) to assess applicants on its behalf.

• There are three types of registration for those involved in engineering and technology - Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer and Engineering Technician.

• The guide to registration lays out the requirements, provides a map of the qualification process.


IET academic requirements

• To achieve the requirement for Chartered Engineer (CEng) status a one-year MSc degree following the BEng programme is required


Professional Engineers Ontario, Canada

• Professional Engineers Ontario licenses Ontario's 65,000 professional engineers, and sets standards for and regulates engineering practice in the province.

• It has a statutory mandate under the Professional Engineers Act to protect the public interest where engineering is concerned.

• Rigorously educated, experienced and committed to a Code of Ethics that puts the public interest first, licensed professional engineers can be identified by the P.Eng. after their names. Professional Engineers Ontario


Professional Engineers in Canada

Qualifications and Requirements:• Graduate with a degree from an accredited program

in engineering or applied science, • Complete an Engineer in Training program under the

direction of a P.Eng. (This is normally a four-year program)

• Review of work experience by the Association, • Pass a professional practice exam (essentially an

engineering ethics and law exam).


Professional Engineers in Canada• Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEG

BC)

• Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA)

• Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of the Province of Manitoba (APEGM)

• Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick (APEGNB)

• Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) • Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia (APENS) • Association of Professional Engineers of Prince Edward Island (APEPEI) • Association of Professional Engineers of Yukon (APEY) • Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of the

Northwest Territories (NAPEGG) • Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ) • Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador (PEG-NL) • Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)


Washington Accord

Principles of Good Practice for Washington AccordSignatories Working Internationally (Approved June 2001)Purpose:• These principles are intended to provide a generally accepted

framework for undertaking reviews in countries that are not signatories of the Washington Accord.

• They are intended to – strengthen the international stature of the Washington Accord

Agreement, – strengthen the working relationship among Washington Accord

Signatories and international quality assurance agencies, and– encourage and enhance ongoing cooperation and communication.


Washington Accord

Principle 1. Considerations for Washington Accord Signatories When Determining to Undertake Quality Assurance Evaluations in Another Country not a member of the Accord

Washington Accord Signatories will:– Affirm their organizational capacity to undertake a review

(e.g., language, trained staff and evaluators, budget, experience, basic information about the country);

– Clarify the relationship of international review activity to the priorities of the accrediting organization;


Washington Accord

– Communicate with other Washington Accord signatories about international review activity;

– Promulgate a clear statement of the scope of the evaluation and the use of the recognition status by an institution or program in another country, especially with regard to transfer of credit and degree and qualifications equivalency;

– Assure clear understanding of the relationship of the review to any international agreements that address quality assurance.


Washington Accord

Principle 2. Expectations for Conduct of Evaluation Reviews Abroad

Washington Accord Signatories will:– Inform national quality assurance agencies in countries

where reviews are undertaken and, where appropriate, seek information, guidance, and concurrence from these agencies;

– Communicate with rectors and other college and university officials at institutions where they are conducting reviews;


Washington Accord

– Assure that staff and evaluators are adequately informed about higher education and quality assurance in the countries in which they are conducting reviews to preclude the appearance of cultural insensitivity;

– Communicate fully and clearly about costs and currencies associated with a review.


Washington Accord

Principle 3. Quality Assurance of Online and Web-based Instruction and programs

Washington Accord Signatories will:– Work as closely as possible with their institutional and

programmatic exporters of online and web-based education to assure quality as offerings are made available in a variety of countries, especially when the offerings involve instructional strategies that are unfamiliar to the host country;

– Urge that these exporters review language, literacy and study skills levels of the target audience for these offerings, preparing separate or supplemental material to meet special needs if appropriate.


Washington Accord

Principle 4. Responsibilities to Students and Colleagues

Washington Accord Signatories will:– Work with the appropriate agencies in non-signatory

countries to provide the most comprehensive and accurate information available about educational services and programs to avoid the export of diplomas of questionable quality offered for a fee;

– Develop, in coordination with international colleagues, the appropriate protocol to assist non-signatory countries in reviewing educational imports from questionable provenance.


Why you should join Engineering Institution?

• To support their work and advance the reputation and status of the profession

• To make business contact

• To learn from one another

• To increase the influence of their discipline with government and the public


IEEE

Profession, professional and professionalism

Mentality of being a professional


What is IEEE?

• IEEE (US) = HKIE (HK) ?????

• IEEE – a learned society ( a social club of engineers!!!)

• IEEE – is more than “social”

A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election


Other major engineering Associations in US

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers States (IEEE)

• The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

• The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

• The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)


World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO)

• WFEO is the world wide leader of the engineering profession and cooperates with national and other international professional institutions in developing and applying engineering to the benefit of humanity.


European Federation of National Engineering Associations (FEANI)

• FEANI was founded in 1951 by a group of French and German Associations (FEANI, www.feani.engineers) who thought that through technology, their common field of activity, it would be possible to create links between former adversaries, and so to facilitate the prosperous and peaceful development of European society.

• Today associations from 31 European countries are represented in FEANI, bringing together more than 350 national engineering associations


Federation of Engineering Institutions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific (FEIAP)

• The Federation of Engineering Institutions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific (FEIAP) is an international non-profit professional organization founded on 6 July 1978. Its establishment following an exploratory meeting convened and organized by The Engineering Institute of Thailand under The King's Patronage with the support of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on 3 July 1978 in Chiang Mai.


Ethics in practice

• A practical guide for professional engineers– A profession is no better than its individual

members; if they do not have the professional attitude and live by the ethical rules of the profession, they will have no profession


Professionalism is about ethics

• Honor & integrity

• Respect

• Excellence & scholarship

• Caring, compassion & communication

• Leadership

• Responsibility & accountability

• Altruism (利他行為 )


Why professional ethics

• A hallmark of professionalism

• Basic qualifying requirement

• An edge in competition

• Guidance to good practice

• Ultimate benefit of the profession


Hallmark of professionalism• Professionalism implies ethical responsibilities

because society relies very much on engineers‘ responsible exercise of their expertise to receive important services.

• The special knowledge that confers considerable power and privileges to engineers may as well create the conditions for abuse and client vulnerability if the power is used unethically or incompetently. Thus, an engineer should abide by a high ethical standard so as to maintain public confidence in his profession.


Basic qualifying requirement• Most professional associations and technical

societies, for self-regulation purpose, require their members to commit themselves in ethical practice in accordance with the guidelines set out in a written code of ethics. If an engineer fails to comply with the code, his registration with relevant professional body may be revoked or suspended and without such a qualification, he may be restricted from working for certain engineering projects, particularly those in the public sector.


An edge in competition• A number of survey studies confirm that practicing

ethics is an edge in market competition. There is an average of 70% of consumers who consider the ethical conduct of an individual or a company a major bearing on their decision in selecting products or services. That means clients often look for somebody whom they can trust. Implementing ethics in professional practice is just the ticket to win customer loyalty and long-term business relationships with clients. Ethics and revenues are in fact inextricably bound.


Guidance to good practice• Professional ethics are a set of standards above the

legal minimal requirement. Underpinning the basic values and related regulations in professional practice, they can help engineers to arrive at the best chosen course of action, especially when they are facing ethical dilemmas where values can easily become variables in the decision making process. Without putting ethics in practice, an engineer is easily open to legal sanctions and expulsion or suspension of his membership in professional bodies due to violation of relevant laws and regulations.


Ultimate benefit of the profession

• The engineering profession is under increased public scrutiny nowadays. The exposure of any unethical acts by members of the profession may devastatingly discredit engineers' professional status. The prospect of the profession hinges on an environment regulated by ethics and professional discipline. When professional ethics are adequately enforced in engineering practice, it ultimately benefits the entire profession by promoting its reputation, credibility and respectability.


HKIE rules of conduct

• Responsibility to the profession

• Responsibility to colleagues

• Responsibility to employers or clients

• Responsibility to the public


Common ethical issues in engineering practice

• Exercise of discretion

• Slippage in supervision

• Handle privileged information

• Conflicts of interests

• Unfair tendering


What to present?• Talk about the project’s professional

measures such as following certain standards to reduce “noise” etc

• Project meeting ISO standards and what • Professionalism – project/company is acting

with integrity, considerable, empathetic, courteous, dependable, cooperative, committed

• Ethical measures?

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