I recently attended a seminar conducted by Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineer of the Philippines – Cordillera Administrative Region Chapter now Institute of Electronics Engineers of the Philippines (IECEP-CAR CHAPTER) regarding Electronics and Communication Engineer (ECE) conversion to Electronics Engineer (EcE). The small ‘c’ in Electronics Engineer is put to distinguish between Electrical Engineer (EE) while the capital ‘C’ in ECE distinguishes between Electronics and Communications Engineer and Electronics Engineer respectively. It was held at University of Baguio, Baguio City, Philippines on March 2, 2008.
I was expecting to meet some of my old friends in college but that was never the case. Where are the Saint Louis University ECE Batch 1994?
Being an Electronics and Communication Engineer myself, I am concerned with this new Republic Act 9292 (RA9292) which is known as “Electronics
Engineering Law of 2004″. I was informed that we can no longer renew our license as an ECE from Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) when our license expires because of this RA 9292. In short, we have to convert from ECE to EcE.
As stated in RA 9292, this law is necessary to “develop and nurture competent, virtuous, productive and well-rounded Professional
Electronics Engineers, Electronics Engineers and Electronics Technicians whose
standards of practice and service shall be excellent, qualitative, world-class and
globally competitive through inviolable, honest, effective and credible licensure
examinations and through regulatory measures, programs and activities that foster
their integrity, continuing professional education, development and growth”
However, I am much concerned with the implementation of this law. I am appealing to the Local Government Units (LGUs) to make sure that this law is enforced so that we can achieve what is being defined in the law. It is high time that laws like should be implemented.
P.S. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) in Telecommunications was also presented. Will this technology replace ASIC? That we have to watch out.
