DEFINITION OF TERMS

Accredited Professional Organization — the integrated and accredited national

organization of Professional Electronics Engineers, Electronics Engineers and

Electronics Technicians.

Addressee – refers to a person who is intended by the originator to receive the electronic

data message or electronic document.

Baccalaureate degree - means the same thing as a bachelor's degree from college. It

can also refer to a "baccalaureate service," which is a like a farewell ceremony for

graduating seniors from high school or college.

Board. – The Board of Examiners for Electronics and Communications Engineers.

Broadcast, Broadcasting — an undertaking the object of which is to transmit audio,

video, text, images or other signals or messages for reception of a broad audience in a

geographical area via wired or wireless means.

Commercial Establishment — shall include but not limited to office buildings, hotels,

motels, hospitals, condominiums, stores, apartments, supermarkets, schools, studios,

stadia, parking areas, memorial chapels/parks, watercraft and aircraft used for business

or profit, and any other building/s or area/s for business purposes, where electronic or

electronically-controlled machinery or equipment are installed and/or are being used,

sold, maintained, assembled, manufactured or operated.

Communications – The process of sending and/or receiving messages between two or

more points by radio, electronics, or other electrical devices.

— the process of sending and/or receiving information, data, signals and/or messages

between two (2) or more points by radio, cable, optical waveguides or other devices and

wired or wireless medium.

Computer — any of a variety of electronic devices that is capable of accepting data,

programs and/or instructions, executing the programs and/or instructions to process the

data and presenting the results.

Construction and/or installation - is the act of putting together parts of a whole in order

to build-up; to form and/or to set or establish electronics equipment, systems or facilities

Consulting Services — as used in this Act, shall include services requiring adequate

technical expertise, experience and professional capability in undertaking advisory and

review, pre-investment or feasibility studies, design, planning, construction, supervision,

management and related services, and other technical studies or special studies in the

field of electronics engineering.

Continuing Professional Education (CPE) - refers to the inculcation, assimilation and

acquisition of knowledge, skills, proficiency and ethical and moral values, after the initial

registration of a professional that raise and enhance the professional’s technical skills

and competence.

Design Service -is the act of conceptualizing, planning and projecting a scheme, system

and facility using the arts and science of electronics along with social, economic, financial

and technical considerations.

ECE Board members - is a team of ECE professionals elected to represent the

organization, they also make the questions in the board exams and make decisions on

the exam. The head of the board of directors is the chairman or chairperson of the board.

Electronics — the science dealing with the development and application of devices and

systems involving the flow of electrons or other carriers of electric charge, in a vacuum,

in gaseous media, in plasma, in semiconductors, in solid-state and/or in similar devices,

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including, but not limited to, applications involving optical, electromagnetic and other

energy forms when transduced or converted into electronic signals.

Electronics and Communications Engineer — a person who is qualified to hold

himself/herself out as a duly-registered/licensed Electronics and Communications

Engineer under Republic Act No. 5734.

Electronics Engineer — a person who is qualified to hold himself/herself out as a duly

registered/licensed Electronics Engineer under this Act and to affix to his/her name the

letters “ECE.”

Electronics Technician — a person who is qualified to hold himself/herself out as a duly

registered/licensed Electronics Technician under this Act and to affix to his/her name the

letters “ECT”

Electronic Data message. – refers to information generated, sent, received or stored by

electronic, optical or similar means.

Electronic document. – refers to information or the representation of information, data,

figures, symbols or other modes of written expression, described or however represented,

by which a right is established or an obligation extinguished, or by which a fact may be

proved and affirmed, which is received, recorded, transmitted, stored, processed,

retrieved or produced electronically.

Electronic key. – refers to a secret code which secures and defends sensitive

information that crosses over public channels into a form decipherable only with a

matching electronic key.

Electronic signature. – refers to any distinctive mark, characteristic and/or sound in

electronic form, representing the identity of a person and attached to or logically

associated with the electronic data message or electronic document or any methodology

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or procedures employed or adopted by a person and executed or adopted by such person

with the intention of authenticating or approving an electronic data message or electronic

document.

Engineering Consultation - is the act of giving advice and information to a client in the

area of electronics engineering and its related fields in line with current internationally

accepted standards and practices.

en banc - (on bonk) French for "in the bench," it signifies a decision by the full court of all

the appeals judges in jurisdictions where there is more than one three- or four-judge

panel. The larger number sit in judgment when the court feels there is a particularly

significant issue at stake or when requested by one or both parties to the case and agreed

to by the court.

Ex-parte - refers to those proceedings where one of the parties has not received notice

and, therefore, is neither present nor represented. If a person received notice of a hearing

and chose not to attend, then the hearing would not be called ex-parte.

Gazette - A government official gazette, official journal, official newspaper or official diary

is a periodical publication that has been authorized to publish public or legal notices.

Industrial Plant — includes all manufacturing establishments and other business

endeavors where electronic or electronically-controlled machinery or equipment are

installed and/or are being used, sold, maintained, assembled, manufactured or operated.

Information and Communication System. – refers to a system intended for and

capable of generating, sending, receiving, storing or otherwise processing electronic data

messages or electronic documents and includes the computer system or other similar

device by or in which data is recorded or stored and any procedures related to the

recording or storage of electronic data message or electronic document.

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Information and Communications Technology — the acquisition, production,

transformation, storage and transmission/reception of data and information by electronic

means in forms such as vocal, pictorial, textual, numeric or the like; also refers to the

theoretical and practical applications and processes utilizing such data and information.

Intermediary. – refers to a person who in behalf of another person and with respect to a

particular electronic document sends, receives and/or stores or provides other services

in respect to that electronic document.

Maintenance - is the proper upkeep of electronics systems and equipment so as to attain

maximum safety and meet the desired grade of service.

Moral Turpitude - A phrase used in Criminal Law to describe conduct that is considered

contrary to community standards of justice, honesty, or good morals.

Operation- is the process of running or managing an electronics system, network,

services and peripheral facilities intended for the transmission, reception and delivery of

intelligence by wire, radio, fiber optics and any other futuristic media.

Originator. – refers to a person by whom, or on whose behalf, the electronic document

purports to have been created, generated and/or sent. The term does not include a person

acting as an intermediary with respect to that electronic document.

Practice of the Profession - doing works related to professional electronics engineer,

electronics engineer and electronics technician.

Professional Electronics Engineer — a person who is qualified to hold himself/herself

out as a duly registered/licensed Professional Electronics Engineer under this Act and to

affix to his/her name the letters “PECE.”

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Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)

 created as a national government agency by Presidential Decree (P.D.) No. 223

dated June 22, 1973, signed by then President Ferdinand E. Marcos, mandated to

enforce the laws regulating the various professions.

 the Philippine government agency mandated to regulate and supervise the

practice of the professionals, the highly skilled manpower of the country.

Service provider. –refers to a provider of -

(i) On-line services or network access, or the operator of facilities thereof, including

entities offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for online

communications, digital or otherwise, between or among points specified by a user, of

electronic documents of the user’s choosing; or

(ii) The necessary technical means by which electronic documents of an originator may

be stored and made accessible to a designated or undesignated third party;

(iii) Such service providers shall have no authority to modify or alter the content of the

electronic data message or electronic document received or to make any entry therein on

behalf of the originator, addressee or any third party unless specifically authorized to do

so, and who shall retain the electronic document in accordance with the specific request

or as necessary for the purpose of performing the services it was engaged to perform.

Telecommunications — any transmission, emission or reception of voice, data,

electronic messages, text, written or printed matter, fixed or moving pictures or images,

words, music or visible or audible signals or sounds, or any information, intelligence

and/or control signals of any design/format and for any purpose, by wire, radio, spectral,

visual/optical/light, or other electronic, electromagnetic and technological means.

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The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) - was created on May 18, 1994 through

the passage of Republic Act No. 7722, or the Higher Education Act of 1994. CHED, an

attached agency to the Office of the President for administrative purposes, is headed by

a chairman and four commissioners, each having a term of office of four years. The

Commission en-banc acts as a collegial body in formulating plans, policies and strategies

relating to higher education and the operation of CHED.

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) - is the

government agency tasked to manage and supervise technical education and skills

development (TESD) in the Philippines. It was created by virtue of Republic Act 7796,

otherwise known as the “Technical Education and Skills Development Act of 1994”

Vocational courses - are designed to help you learn in a practical way about a specific

job area. They can help you get the skills you need to start a job, progress in a career or

go on to higher levels of education.

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 INTRODUCTION

Law refers to the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes
as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
In the Philippines, some pertinent laws, rules and regulations which governs the conduct
and standards of Electronics Engineering field are promulgated as its construction
conforms with the recommendations or content of the laws, rules, and regulation from
higher law making bodies or organizations.
Republic Act No. 9292 otherwise known as Electronics Engineering Law of 2004,
is an Act providing for a more responsive and comprehensive regulation for the
Registration, Licensing and Practice of Professional Electronics Engineers, Electronics
Engineers and Electronics Technicians, Repealing Republic Act No. 5734, Otherwise
Known as "The Electronics and Communications Engineering Act of the Philippines", and
for other purposes
An Electronics and Communications Engineering graduate need to take the
Electronic Engineering Licensure Examination before he/she can practice as an
Electronics and Communications Engineer. The examination is conducted by the Board
of Electronic Engineering under the supervision of the Professional Regulation
Commission (PRC). It is scheduled twice a year in the months of April and October. The
main subjects of the ECE Board exam are Mathematics, Electronics Engineering, General
Engineering and Applied Sciences (GEAS) and Electronics Systems and Technologies.
This written report consists of different articles or sections regarding ECE Laws
and each of these laws consist of supporting laws which are of conformity in the hierarchy
of law making upon the recommendation or regulations from higher law making body or
organization governing the regulation promulgation of pertinent laws regarding in the field
of Electronics Engineering. This only means that a newly made argument, order,
memorandum or policy is not made without the presence of the higher laws. The making
of a policy is always based on the higher law or order coming from the law making bodies
or organizations that are higher as seen in statutory construction hierarchy.