An engineer must be a member of OE
to be awarded the title and to practice the profession (Statute, article 3).
By requiring engineers to be OE members to legally practise their
profession guarantees high professional standards and reinforces credibility in
this profession.
Applicants to OE must have obtained
an engineering degree, or its legal equivalent, completed a training period and
taken the admission exam. OE must also define
objective criteria for exemption from admission exams, and these
criteria must be periodically revised. These criteria are based on the course
curriculum, education means and evaluation methods (Statute, article 7).
The Admission and Qualification
Regulations, annexed to the Statute, dictate the conditions under which the
process of Accreditation of Engineering Courses
take place so that graduates may be exempt from admission exams, in
compliance with article 7 of the Statute.
OE’s current Admission Examination
Policy exempts students of Accredited Engineering Courses from the exam. In the
past, before this process took effect, the candidate’s academic curriculum was
assessed case by case before exemption was granted. Should the decision be
favourable, it would become the norm, that is, any candidate with the same
graduation would be able to join the institution. When the new statute was approved in 1992 by
Decree-Law no. 119 of 30th June, OE published the list of courses
whose graduates were admitted to OE until that date.