BOARD OF ENGINEERS

CPD 005
MALAYSIA
CIRCULAR TO ALL PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS

To: All Professional Engineers

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) FOR

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS

We wish to inform you that the Board will be introducing a Continuing

Professional Development (CPD) program for professional engineers in line
with the emerging global trend towards promoting and ensuring their
competency. It is therefore extremely important that all engineers be committed
to their own CPD so that they could face these ever changing engineering
challenges and at the same time take advantage of opportunities that may arise.

The Board plans to make participation in CPD activities a mandatory requirement

for the renewal of practicing certificate (PC) for the year 2004 onwards.

In order to renew a PC for the year 2005, a PE will be required to chalk up an

average of 50 hours per year over the next three year period.

For the coming year, the Board would be implementing a voluntary CPD
program. In this voluntary program, PEs are urged to participate in CPD activities
in accordance with the Boards Policy on the CPD. Details of this Policy shall be
obtainable from BEM.

At the end of the voluntary period, you could submit your CPD records to the
Board together with your application for renewal of your PC for the year 2003.

Continuing Professional Development is for all Professional Engineers and is

to be on a voluntary basis for the first two(2) years and mandatory thereafter, in
which, every practicing Professional Engineer must submit his CPD records
together with his application for renewal of registration with the Board of
Engineers Malaysia.