​​​​Engineers graduating from accredited universities in many countries around the world who wish to work on projects that affect public safety are required to obtain a professional license. In this regard, graduates of engineering programs, who have a number of years of experience practicing engineering work that requires applying engineering principles in design, evaluation, providing consultations, or supervising work that affects the public interest, are required to pass a standardized test called PE Engineering Practice Test.

According to the system of practicing the profession of the Saudi Council of Engineers, passing the test is considered one of the conditions required to be achieved in order to promote an engineer to the rank of professional engineer. The Authority also required, in addition to passing the test, the availability of practical experience of no less than eight years after obtaining the academic degree. 

The responsibilities entrusted to the professional engineer include: Preparing and providing engineering services in the field of his engineering specialization, signing reports and plans with direct and indirect responsibility, training engineers to the rank of associate engineer or less, carrying out engineering arbitration and dispute resolution, and managing engineering services contracts, in addition to assuming leadership tasks and responsibilities.

The test aims to measure the engineer's ability to apply his knowledge and experience in practicing engineering work consistent with his educational qualification and practical experience, professionally and professionally. The test also aims to measure the engineer's knowledge of the professional rules, regulations, and ethical behavior regulating the practice of the engineering profession.

Engineering majors currently available for registration

1-     Common Part Engineering

All testers in all specializations participate in this part, and this part includes topics such as: (Ethics - Codes of Professional Practice, Professional Laws and Regulations - Environment and Natural Resources - Engineering Management - Engineering Economics - Health, Safety and Security (HSS)).

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2-     Structural Engineering

This specialty is concerned with the analysis and design of concrete and steel structures, such as multi-storey buildings, bridges, towers, etc., and studying the extent of their tolerance and resistance to the loads resulting from use and also resulting from the effects of winds and earthquakes, as well as studying the properties of materials used in construction in accordance with international standard specifications for construction and material properties.
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3-     Geotechnical Engineering

This specialty is concerned with studying the engineering characteristics of the land on which the structure or engineering building is located, whether that land is soil or rock, and the extent of its strength to bear the loads and finding appropriate solutions to any problems in the structure's ground, as well as choosing the best and safest methods for designing and implementing the foundations of the engineering structure.

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4-     Transportation Engineering

This specialization is concerned with setting broad lines for transportation systems in a way that is compatible with immediate and future needs, setting engineering specifications for those systems such as specifications for roads, airports, and parking lots, developing and operating maintenance systems for road networks, operating traffic, designing traffic lights and non-lights, and operating public transportation systems.

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5-     Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

This specialization is concerned with studying the basics of hydrology and its related theories and applications. Topics of specialization include methods of transporting water from its sources to distribution areas through canals and pipes, water sources and how to preserve and store them for use when needed, dams of all types and methods of designing them, as well as the movement of sea waves and their impact on the coasts and how to repel them to create ports of all kinds and related docks and platforms for ships.

Environmental engineering specializes in studying the means and techniques necessary to preserve the environment and ensure the availability of the necessary elements for life, such as water and air, at a certain level of quality to preserve human health and the environment. Examples of this include designing and implementing water distribution networks, wastewater and rainwater collection networks, water treatment plants, and sewage treatment plants for reuse in the industrial and agricultural fields, as well as studying various techniques to reduce air and water pollutants and methods of proper disposal of solid and hazardous waste and making use of them.

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6-     Power Engineering

This specialization is concerned with studying the basic engineering principles of electrical power engineering, such as measurement and devices, and their applications such as lightning protection, studying the standards and codes related to the specialization, studying the analysis of electrical circuits and electronic circuits used in devices and energy systems, and studying rotating machines and electrical power generation devices such as induction and synchronization machines, transformers and capacitors. By studying high, medium and low voltage transmission and distribution and analyzing energy and protection systems

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7-     HVAC and Refrigeration Engineering

This specialty is concerned with studying the basic engineering principles of air conditioning systems, such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, psychrometrics, heat transfer, and energy and mass balance, and with their applications, such as calculations of cooling and heating loads, and with their equipment and components, such as control systems, air distribution systems, and cooling systems, and with supporting information such as air quality, ventilation, vibration and sound control, and standards, codes, and regulations related to air conditioning systems.

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8-     Thermal and Fluids Systems Engineering

This specialization is concerned with studying the basic engineering principles of thermal systems and fluid systems, such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, energy balance, mass balance, psychrometrics, analysis of piping systems and the standards and codes related to them, and with hydraulic applications and fluid applications such as pumps, fans, compressors, pressure vessels, and control valves, and with power and energy systems applications such as turbines, boilers, steam generators, internal combustion engines, heat exchangers and cooling towers.

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9-     Chemical Engineering

This specialization is concerned with studying mass balance, energy balance, thermodynamics, heat transfer methods and their applications, reactors and their parameters, fluids and their applications, mass transfer, design and operation of chemical facilities, and related safety, health and environmental matters.

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10- Architecture

The architecture specialty is concerned with providing professional services in relation to city planning and the design, construction, expansion, maintenance, restoration or alteration of a building or group of buildings. These professional services include, but are not limited to, planning, land use planning, and urban design, providing preliminary studies, designs, models, drawings, specifications, and technical documents, and coordinating between them. These documents are prepared by consulting engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, and other specialized consultants who conduct studies and prepare reports such as construction economics, contract administration, construction management and control (referred to as “supervision" in some countries), and project management.

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11- Fire Protection Engineering

This specialty is concerned with studying risk analysis, interpreting data and using it for analysis and to determine factors of uncertainty and safety, applying standards, codes, classifications of occupancy, risks, goods, fire tests, technical drawings, diagrams, and plans, and the basics of fire dynamics such as fire behavior, smoke, combustion, material properties, heat and smoke transfer from fire, and active and passive fire protection systems such as water-based fire protection systems, specialized risk systems, detection, alarm and signaling systems, smoke control systems, explosion protection and prevention systems, passive building systems, studying population movement and human behavior and designing escape exits.

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