The Institution is the body responsible for qualifying engineers
in Hong Kong and is multi-disciplinary. Admission is usually into
one of eighteen disciplines, which are:
An important part of the qualifying function is the
accreditation of Hong Kong's engineering degrees and sub-degrees, whereby
the Institution assesses such programmes to determine if they are suitable
for educating professional and technician engineers. As a signatory to
the Washington Accord, the HKIE has been fully verified by Australia,
Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the
United States as having a substantially equivalent system of accreditation.
