Professional Engineer Certification Practices in India vis-à-vis USA

G. Venkata Prasad, Director of Operations, Deep Foundations of India, & Dr. Putcha Sastry, Vice President, Smart Structures, Florida, USA, compare a Professional Engineer’s practices in India with that in the USA, and highlight the potential in India to achieve international engineering standards.

Professional Engineer Certification Practices in India

Scenario in India

Currently, there are two bodies at the national level in India offering laid down guidelines for issuing a Professional Engineer certification: The Institution of Engineers (India) – IEI and the Engineering Council of India (ECI).

The IEI has been recognized as a scientific and industrial research organization by the Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. Besides conducting research, it provides grant-in-aid to UG/PG/Ph.D. students of engineering institutes and universities.

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