Pakistan Engineering Council (Urdu: پاكِستان انجنيرينگ کونسل; acronym PEC), is a professional and statutory federal institution for accredition and regulation of the chartered and professional engineers and technicians. The PEC is dedicated for promoting its education programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology. Established in 1976 by the PEC 1976 Act of the Constitution of Pakistan, it is the elite representative engineering community in the country, assisting the government and the provisional governments of the four provinces.
The PEC grants license and registration of engineers, consulting engineers, technicians, and the accredition of the engineering programs operation and oversees by the accredited universities and institutions. The PEC also asserts its role as a think tank to the government and undertakes its efforts to establish scientific standards for engineering innovations and services to the nation. It has full representation in four provinces of the country and has provisional head offices in each four provinces; its headquarters is located in Islamabad, Pakistan which served its operational command and control secretariat.
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