On 31 January 2012, the Honourable Minister of Public Works, Mr T. W. Nxesi appointed 42 persons enlisted here as members to the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA).
WORLD ENGINEERING FORUM 2012 Voluntary Associations (VAs), engineers and industry are notified of the upcoming World Engineering Forum 2012 from 17 to 21 September in Ljubljana, Slovenia. For more information, click here
ENGINEERING STANDARDS FOR PUBLIC COMMENT
The Engineering Standards Generating Body (ESGB) undertook the work of developing the Bachelor of Engineering Technology, the Advanced Diploma in Engineering, the Diploma in Engineering, the Advanced Certificate in Engineering and the Higher Certificate in Engineering Qualifications in Standards Generating Groups. The HEQF compliant qualifications were developed to replace the NATED qualifications and to comply with the Policy on Higher Education Qualifications: Oct 2007.
Interested parties are requested to submit comments on the documents enlisted here not later than Friday, 30 March 2012 by e-mail to the ECSA Education Manager, Samantha Naidoo at Samantha@ecsa.co.za.
INVITATION TO COMMENT ON PROPOSED REVISION TO THE QUALIFICATION STANDARD FOR BEng-TYPE DEGREE
The following documents are published for comment:
Comments must be submitted to Ms Samantha Naidoo, Education Manager, ECSA by 30 April 2012
ADVISORY NOTES
From time to time ECSA publishes Advisory Notes and Alerts on engineering-related matters. These are informative documents and do not replace ECSA&rsquos approved policies, standards and procedures. While every effort to ensure the correctness of the information provided in these Advisory Notes, the onus rests on readers to ensure that the provisions of legislation applicable to engineering work and services are complied.
The Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) is pleased to announce important changes to its registration process. The revised registration process, which will be implemented in phases, will introduce new policies, standards and procedures for registration, together with a new ECSA-Online system to support applications, assessment of applicants and decision making.
YOUNG ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL NEWSLETTERS For the current and archived Young Engineering Newsletters click here
ECSA ALERT ON BOGUS ENGINEERING REGISTRATION ORGANISATIONS The Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) wishes to alert engineering graduates and the public that ECSA is the only national statutory body which is eligible to register engineering professionals...
REGISTRATION PROCEDURE FOR UDW CIVIL ENGINEERING (2002 ONWARD) GRADUATES Due to the Engineering Council of South Africa’s (ECSA) de-accreditation of the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) BSc (Eng) Civil Engineering qualification in February 2003, a total of 51 students from UDW are in possession of the non-accredited BSc (Eng) (Civil) degree (2001 – 2004). ECSA has made two options available to the remaining UDW graduates, who wish to obtain an ECSA recognized degree and/or seek registration with ECSA...
ARE YOU PLANNING ON BUILDING A NEW STRUCTURE OR ALTERING AN EXISTING ONE?
Reside in the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipal Area? Then this is for you! Any new building or alteration that adds on or changes the structure of an existing building must be approved by City’s Planning Development Management Department. For information on the how, where and why of submitting plans and who to contact, follow this link.
AN URGENT CALL FOR EXPERT INVESTIGATORS ECSA regularly has the need to call on registered professionals for assistance in investigating alleged improper conduct on the part of other registered persons, or investigating engineering related undertakings whereby public health and safety may have been prejudiced
ATTENTION ALL APPLICANTS
EFFECTIVE AS OF 1 JANUARY 2011
In the past ECSA refunded the full application fee when an application was either withdrawn by the applicant or closed by the registration department due to incomplete information being submitted, and only if the application was handled administratively and not yet referred to a registration committee. Due to administrative costs, ECSA will now only refund 50% of the amount paid towards application fees in such cases. The new system comes into effect with all applications received as from 1 January 2011.
ATTENTION ALL FOREIGN APPLICANTS If you are in possession of a FOREIGN QUALIFICATION you MUST complete the Foreign Qualification Assessment form first, in order to have your qualification evaluated for registration purposes. Please DO NOT complete a Registration form directly, as this will delay your application from being considered. However, this is not applicable for educational qualifications covered by a Mutual Exemption Agreement, an approved International Register or the Washington, Sydney or Dublin Accords.
PLEASE NOTE:
As ECSA receives numerous requests from applicants who hold foreign qualifications, we advise that requests for letters to Home Affairs for your Quota Work Permit can only be accepted on a Tuesday and Thursday between 10am – 12pm. If you submit a request on a Tuesday, then your letter will be ready for collection on a Thursday, during the stipulated time. If your request is received on a Thursday, then the letter will be ready for collection on the following Tuesday.
ATTENTION: REVIEW OF THE METHOD OF INQUIRY
ECSA has in terms of section 36(2)(a)published for comment draft Rules on its Method of Inquiry into alleged Improper Conduct. Please submit your comments to legal@ecsa.co.za .
IMPROVING THROUGHPUT IN THE ENGINEERING BACHELORS DEGREE This report is the outcome of a review initiated in April 2011 by the Engineering Council of South Africa, aimed at identifying ways of improving throughputs in the engineering bachelors degree
Voluntary Associations (VAs), engineers and industry are notified of the upcoming World Engineering Forum 2012 from 17 to 21 September in Ljubljana, Slovenia. For more information, click 
For the current and archived Young Engineering Newsletters click 
Due to the Engineering Council of South Africa’s (ECSA) de-accreditation of the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) BSc (Eng) Civil Engineering qualification in February 2003, a total of 51 students from UDW are in possession of the non-accredited BSc (Eng) (Civil) degree (2001 – 2004).
ECSA regularly has the need to call on registered professionals for assistance in investigating alleged improper conduct on the part of other registered persons, or investigating engineering related undertakings whereby public health and safety may have been prejudiced
