The Engineering Council of SA registers competent, qualification based Engineering Practitioners through assessment of experience and peer evaluation.
Irrespective of past or current educational routes followed towards entering the Clinical Engineering profession, successful ECSA evaluation of an applicant’s evidence-based / proven competencies results in professional registration and entitlement in various categories such as Professional Engineer, Professional Engineering Technologist, Professional Certificated Engineer or Professional Engineering Technician.
The Specified Category of Medical Equipment Maintainer provides for the registration of persons who cannot register in a professional category, but who perform Clinical Engineering work.
Follow these steps to do your professional registration with ECSA:
- Visit the ECSA Self-Service-Portal: https://engineeringcouncilsa.microsoftcrmportals.com
- Sign Up for Access to the Self-service-portal
- Once you receive your log in details sign in
- Choose the ‘Registration’ tab
- Then choose the applicable option to register for:
Candidate Registration
Candidate registration for the following categories:
Candidate Engineer
Candidate Engineering Technologist
Candidate Engineering Technician
Candidate Certificated Engineer
Professional Registration
Professional registration for one of the following categories:
Professional Engineer
Professional Engineering Technologist
Professional Engineering Technician
Certified Engineers Registration
Professional registration for the following category: Professional Certificated Engineer
Specified Categories Registration
To apply for professional registration in one of the specified category
International Registration
To apply for registration as a professional engineer, technologist or technician on the international registration
View Active Registrations
To see your active registrations or cancel any active registration, please proceed to use this link
- Clinical Engineers Code of Practice
- More information on ECSA’s CPD Rules
- To address technical issues for logging onto your ECSA Self Service Portal, reach out to ECSA’s Customer Service Centre at 086 122 5555 or email engineer@ecsa.co.za
- For any queries or questions that are CPD related, please email cpd@ecsa.co.za


