The Executive Committee of ESME have come to realize that members lack clear information concerning REGISTRATION & CERTIFICATION of ENGINEERING PROFESSION.

This was a task handled by the Basic Metals and Engineering Industries (BMEIA) in the past years. Unfortunately, after the Agency was dissolved and replaced by the Ministry of Trade & Industry Metal Products Development Center, the task of registration and certification turned out to be a no body’s responsibility.

On the other hand, ESME has been working actively in the past couple of years in JEAPAS, the joint Engineering Professional Associations Secretariat that include about six professional Engineering Societies, namely,

Ethiopian Society of Mechanical Engineers (ESME)
Ethiopian Society of Chemical Engineers (ESChE)
Society of Ethiopian Electrical Engineers (SEEE)
Ethiopian Association of Civil Engineers (EACE)
Association of Ethiopian Architects (AEA)

These associations have been discussing REGISTRATION & CERTIFICATION OF ENGINEERING PROFESSION under the auspices of Joint Engineering Professional Association Secretariat (JEAPAS) for the last two years with the aim of officially transferring the certification of professional engineers to their respective discipline and has made a considerable progress. It began by establishing a Harmonizing Committee that came up with draft resolution prepared on how to register and certify professionals.

The draft resolution was approved by JEAPAS and submitted to the Ministry of Infra Structure through the Minister D’Etat of the same ministry. We hope it shall be approved soon.

Hence, although it is a point of serious concern for ESME that at the moment there is no responsible party that registers and certifies Mechanical engineer, the Society hopes that the activities that it has started under the auspices of JEAPAS will bear fruit and the deadlock will be resolved soon.

Source: ESME News Volum V Issue No. 6 June 2005.