Definition of professional Engineering
For the general definition:
Professional Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying technical and scientific knowledge and utilizing natural laws and physical resources to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria.
~ Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) is a board that accredite engineering bachelor’s degree programme in United States
~ The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD), the predecessor of ABET has defined engineering as follows:
“[T]he creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property.”
~Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) is entrusted by Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) to accredite all engineering Bachelor’s programme in Malaysia.
EAC defined engineering as “that an engineer is to create, select and apply appropriate techniques, resources and modern engineering tools, including prediction and modeling, to complex engineering activities, with an understanding of the limitations”.
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