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The Culture of Credential Recognition by Gurmeet Bambrah

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Accreditation of engineering education was started by ECPD that had accredited 580 undergraduate engineering programs at 133 universities by 1947. In 1980 ECPD restructured to become the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) to certify engineering degree programs in the United States.

The equivalent process was set up in Canada with the establishment of the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) in 1965 to accredit engineering programs across Canada.15 The objective of CEAB was to provide the academic requirements necessary for licensure as a professional engineer in Canada. Like ECPD in 1986 Engineers Canada established the Canadian Engineering Qualifications Board (CEQB) to develop national guidelines on professional engineering qualifications, standards of practice, ethics and professional conduct.

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The Culture of Public Protection by Gurmeet Bambrah

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After the Second World War, engineers in America became increasingly aware of the social impact of their work. A sequence of events starting with use of the atomic bomb in the war continuing with the incidents such as the Three Mile Island disaster, the Ford Pinto case, and the Union Carbide explosion at Bhopal, generated a significant concern in the media and the public about the effects of technology and engineering on human well-being. Corporations and governments received a fair amount of blame for these events. Deriving from these concerns, the Engineering Council for Professional Development (ECPD) that had adopted a code of ethics in 1947 was forced to renew its interest in ethics in engineering. EPCD made it a leading duty for engineers to ‘have due regard for the safety of life and health of the public.

The self-regulating NSPE in America also released Canons of Ethics and Rules of Professional Conduct for Engineers, which evolved into its current Code of Ethics, adopted in 1964. The NSPE code led in 1981 to the adoption of „Fundamental Canons,‟ the first being to „Hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public.’ Protection of public health, welfare and safety was likewise introduced into engineering regulation in Canada in the 1990s.

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Culture of Advocacy and Self-interest by Gurmeet Bambrah

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State licensing in America helped move regulation of engineering away from self- regulation. The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) set up in 1934 to focus on self-interests of engineers such as legislative issues, public understanding and recognition of the profession, ethical practice, compensation, and protecting PEs from attempts to restrict their right to practice engineering.

In Canada the hybrid self-regulation licensing model made it difficult to separate self-interests of engineers from public interests. In 2000 the provincial regulator in Ontario, PEO – now Engineers Ontario – was persuaded to separate its regulatory and non-regulatory functions by supporting the formation of the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE). Engineers Ontario provided start-up funds to OSPE for three years and it was not until 2004 that OSPE was able to define itself as the voice of the engineering profession in Ontario. At present its function is to advance the professional and economic interests of its members by advocating with governments, offering member services and professional development opportunities.

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Ethics & Accreditation in Engineering

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TalentHunt 360’s founder and CEO Gurmeet Bambrah, PhD write on Ethics and Accreditation in Engineering:

As conflicts between self-interests of engineers and public interest emerged, client/engineer issues gained prominence in North America in early 1900s and a wave of reforms started to set in place implicit codes of ethics for engineers. Primary examples of these were the codes of ethics of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, (adopted in 1912) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers, both of which were adopted in 1914. 9, 5,14

In a second wave of reforms the Engineers Council for Professional Development (EPCD) was founded in America in 1932 – as an organization of organizations (rather than individuals) – to promote consistency in the licensing, ethics and practice of engineering. Following these developments the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE) – now Engineers Canada – was set up in 1936 to promote consistency in the engineering educational standards, regulatory and licensing practices of provincial regulators in Canada.

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Canadian Engineering Culture

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TalentHunt 360’s founder and CEO Gurmeet Bambrah, PhD write on Canadian Engineering Culture:

In Canada control of professional education was assigned to the provincial jurisdiction under the British North American Treaty. Like its American counterpart, the self-regulating Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (CSCE) did not endorse the external regulation of engineers. CSCE was however blocked from the regulatory function by its dominion-chartered status. By transforming itself into the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), it was able to encourage engineers in the provinces to set up self-regulating groups. Between 1920 and 1922, seven of the nine provinces in Canada established engineering associations13 that were incorporated under the Professional Engineers Act in 1922. This act allowed them to register engineers but stopped short of allowing them to license members. In 1937, the self-regulating associations successfully fought to amend the 1922 Professional Engineers Act. Under the amended Professional Engineers Act, licensing of their members by the associations became mandatory.13 Engineering associations thus wrested the function of regulating engineering from the Provincial Governments opening the door for them to control who could practice engineering in Canada. This hybrid self-governance model empowered engineering associations to protect self-interests of their members through licensing. A consistent theme in the quest of Canada‟s engineers to define their role therefore has been self-regulation and control over who can practice engineering in the provinces of Canada.

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British Apprenticeship Culture

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TalentHunt 360’s founder and CEO Gurmeet Bambrah, PhD write on British Apprenticeship Culture:

Despite introduction of self-regulation, 20th century history of engineering governance in Britain is a study in persistent commitment to the ideology of apprenticeship/craft.9 In this country while self-regulating engineering discipline- specific associations formed under royal charter continue to define engineering and the role of engineers engineering employers still subscribe to the apprenticeship/craft culture. Being wary of academic grounding in isolation of practical training these employers resist licensing. Engineering in Britain is far from being organized as a profession. It lacks educational closure, has no licensed titles and no managerial structure.

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American Culture of Engineering

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TalentHunt 360’s founder and CEO Gurmeet Bambrah, PhD write on American Culture of Engineering:

Initially the United States combined the Military academy model with British hands-on training and self-regulation at the Military Academy at West Point in 1802. This remained the case until the 1860s. Civil engineering schools remained obsessed with balancing academic teaching and hands-on experience either independently from the universities or as colleges of engineering only loosely affiliated with universities.6 In a groundbreaking move in 1862, however through the Morrill Act, America initiated the crucial step of placing engineering education inside universities through land- grant colleges.

In a completely independent development, in early 1900s Wyoming, an American state required applicants wishing to gain access to state water to file a detailed technical application for this. It was in this context that licensing for the engineering profession was introduced to protect the public from inaccurate applications and to ensure accurate records on water abstractions. State registration became mandatory for those representing themselves to the public as engineers or land surveyors and the state board of examiners for the profession was created at the same time. So popular was this development that by 1950 all states across America had adopted the licensing tradition.

Alongside these developments engineering societies modeled on the British self-regulating model continued to grow and fragment by engineering discipline into civil, mechanical, electrical, and other forms of engineering. Examples of these included the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE, 1852), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME, 1880) and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE, 1884). However self-regulation by engineers never gained a stronghold in America.

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How did Engineering Begin? (Part 3- Renaissance Culture of Enlightment)

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Some say the Renaissance period was the greatest in human history? Do you agree?

Find out more from TalentHunt 360’s founder and CEO Gurmeet Bambrah, PhD.

“Driven by eras of enlightenment, reformation and revolution, in Europe in the renaissance period (15th and 16th centuries) engineering increasingly became systematic and science-based in addition to drawing upon empirical experience. With major advances in printing technology in the 15th century, illustrated books of machines and manuals of technical processes were published by many inventors.

The works of Leonardo Da Vinci, filled with sketches of possible and impossible machines illustrates this. The science of chemistry evolved from medieval alchemy, and the science of astronomy evolved into natural philosophy. By the end of the 17th century, these led to a scientific revolution and science had become an established mathematical, mechanical, and empirical body of knowledge. Natural Philosophers such as Galileo Galilei, René Blaise Pascal, and Isaac Newton, among others contributed much to this evolution.”

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How did Engineering Begin? (Part 2- Medieval Scientific Culture)

February 25, 2016February 25, 2016 Harleen Jabbal Leave a comment

The next big cure or how better to fight cancer? These are today’s challenges, but what about back in the 11^th & 12^th Centuries?

TalentHunt 360’s founder and CEO Gurmeet Bambrah, PhD gives you an idea about science, mathematics and their roots in England to Italy.

“Antecedents to scientific thought4 are found in 11th and 12th centuries when ideas of ancient Greek philosophers were wed into a new body of living beliefs. These are also encountered in Arabic science and mathematics that found their way to Oxford in England and to Padua in Italy by the 12th century. Scientific discovery derived from a systematic approach to the physical sciences that combined with practical applications of science led to modern engineering. Galileo’s Two New Sciences describes the scientific approach to practical problems. This is regarded as a landmark of the beginning of structural analysis, mathematical representation and design of building structures by many historians of modern engineering.”

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How Did Engineering Begin (Part 1- Global Engineering Cultures)

February 24, 2016 Harleen Jabbal Leave a comment

Have you ever thought of how a building was built, a bridge rose high, a tunnel dug deep?

These are marvels that you may have discovered through the eyes of documentaries, but let’s go deeper.

TalentHunt 360’s founder and CEO Gurmeet Bambrah, PhD takes you back in time for these ancients culture of monuments.

“Many great engineering achievements date back to ancient times. Examples of these include the wheel between 4000 and 2000 BC and the Pyramids, constructed in Egypt during 2800-2400 BC; The Great Wall of China constructed around 200 BC; Roman cities that included aqueducts, bridges and dams2 and Indian irrigation practiced as early as the 500 BC3. Though monumental even by today’s standards large–scale replication of these across time and space remained unachievable.”

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