The engineering education at tertiary level began in Malaya in 1956 at University of Malaya. Nowadays, the engineering education has evolved and spurring myriad of engineering courses offered by Public University and privates institution. During 1990's when the economy was booming, Malaysia facing a shortage of engineers. The demand for more engineers has lead to actions by several public university to shorten the duration of study from 4 years to 3 years albeit approval problems from the Board of Engineer of Malaysia (BEM). The duration was fully revised back to 4 years in year 2000. The country trying to create two streams of engineers: the conventional research or scientific-oriented engineer who is sound in design theory and analysis and the practice-oriented counterpart. The BEM has been a signatory of the Washington Accord since 2009 which resulted to the recognisation by member countries include Australia, Canada, Taipei, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia,