KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (Aug. 1, 2008). All 17 members of the 4th offering of the SHRDC INSEP Piping Engineering training class have passed the their first phase of training and the SPED Professional Piping Designer (PPD) Level I Certification Exam. INSEP, or Industrial Skills Enhancement Program, organized by the Selangor Human Resource Development Center (SHRDC), is a training and development program aimed at producing competent graduate engineers. The INSEP program is funded by the State of Salengor and participating industrial sponsors. Passing the training and exam qualifies them for the second, on-the-job phase of their training at Technip Geoproduction (M) Sdn. Bhd., based in Kuala Lumpur, who helped develop the Piping Engineering INSEP training program. Information Assets, Inc., provided piping engineering training on approximately 30 topics over a six week period.
SPED (Society of Piping Engineers and Designers) offers four levels of PPD Certification. Level I PPD Certification is considered a demonstration that holder has the basic knowledge needed to correctly route process pipe.
Since 2005, 70 engineers have been enrolled in the program:
| Year | Students | Class Sponsor(s) |
| 2005 | 13 | Technip |
| 2006 | 20 | Technip, MMHE |
| 2007 | 20 | MMHE |
| 2008 | 17 | Technip |
Selangor Human Resource Development Center (SHRDC), is a training and development facility aimed at applied skills training for the Malaysian manufacturing and technical services sector. SHRDC Contact: Woo May May, www.shrdc.org.my.
Technip Geoproduction Malaysia is a leading oil and gas engineering organisation and provider of technology solutions and turnkey contracting expertise in 3 business segments: Subsea, Offshore and Onshore. They are involved in the design, engineering, procurement, construction and installation of offshore deepwater, subsea and shallow field facilities and onshore in downstream oil refining, gas processing, LNG, ethylene / petrochemical plants, as well as in selected non-hydrocarbons such as life sciences, chemicals and biofuels / biodiesel.
The Society of Piping Engineers and Designers is an international organization dedicated the advancement of the piping profession. The society offers a four level Professional Piping Designer Program and a variety of other professional development programs. SPED contact: Andrea C. Macejak, Manager of Operations, US 832-286-3404, www.spedweb.com.
Information Assets, Inc., is a leading provider of piping design training for piping designers and piping engineers. For more information, contact: William G. Beazley, 713-443-9914, www.infoassets.com.
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