Professional engineering technologist in top SAICE position

摘要

Like his predecessors Trueman Goba and Allyson Lawless, who as the first black and the first lady president of SAICE respectively were trailblazers in their own way, Faried is also breaking ground this year. He is the first president to come from the ranks of the engineering technologists, a fraternity who recently bestowed on him the Technologists' Achiever Award for 2002. As chairman of the Board of Technicians and Technologists (BTT) from 1998 to 1999, SAICE Vice-President: Technicians and Technologists (1999) and Vice-President: Organisational Transformation (2000), Faried has been well positioned to promote the interests of engineering technicians and technologists, and to set academic and professional standards for these occupational categories. As such, he will continue to serve on the main body of the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), to which he was appointed by the Minister of Public Works for four years, until 2005. He also serves on various other committees of ECSA, such as the Registration Committee for Professional Engineering Technologists and the Technikon Accreditation Committee where he assists with the accreditation of civil engineering courses at the various technikons.