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INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF ENGINEERING DEGREES 141

EMF maintains a decentralized Register of International Engineers
that includes the names of professional engineers in member countries
who meet very specific educational and experiential guidelines. The pur-
pose of the registry is to streamline the process of obtaining practice
privileges in EMF-member countries. The registry is “decentralized” in
the sense that each country operates its own section and writes its own
“assessment statement” describing the admission requirements for that
country. A monitoring committee in each country develops the assess-
ment statement, reviews applications for admission to the registry, and
functions as the point of contact for all matters relating to the registry.
EMF members include the national engineering organizations of
Ireland, the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, South Africa,
Hong Kong, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, and New Zealand.
FEANI has observer status, and India and Bangladesh have expressed an
interest in joining EMF.
With the signing of the EMF Agreement in June 2001, the Interna-
tional Register of Professional Engineers (IRoPE) was established
(IPENZ, 2000). The requirements for entrants to the registry are listed
below (BCS, 2005):

•registration in a signatory jurisdiction
• accredited degree or equivalent academic qualification
• seven years postgraduate experience
• two years of work with responsibility for engineering work
• maintenance of continuing professional development

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Engineer Register

Similar to IRoPE, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Engineer Register is an initiative that facilitates cross-border mobility
for professional engineers in the APEC region. An APEC Engineer Reg-
ister has been established in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong China, In-
donesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thai-
land, and the United States.
In the United States, the EMF and APEC registers are maintained
by the U.S. Council for International Engineering Practice (USCIEP),
which was established to “develop and promote procedures to enable
U.S.-registered professional engineers to practice internationally”
(USCIEP, 2004). Member organizations of USCIEP include the

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