It is mandatory for university graduate to register as Graduate Engineer if he/she wants to take up employment as a Graduate Engineer. This is in accordance with section 7(2)(a) which specified that “A Graduate Engineer who is registered with the Board may, subject to section 8, take up employment which requires him to perform professional engineering services.

A Graduate Engineer is a person registered under Section 10(1) of the Registration of Engineers Act 1967 (Revised 2015).

According to Section 7(1B), a Graduate Engineer will be entitled to describe himself or hold himself out under any name, style or title using the abbreviation “Grad.Eng.” after his name or in any way associate with his name.