Pelinese All-Engineering Union (Pacifica)

Pelinese All-Engineering Union

Пелинский Всеинженерский Союз
Logo of the Pelinese All-Engineering Union
Abbreviation	PAEU (au); PVIS (st)
Established	September 14, 1994 (1994-09-14)
Type	Engineering-oriented umbrella organization
Headquarters	Pelograd, Pelinai
Location	Pelinai
Region served	Worldwide
Services	Engineering licensing University course accreditation Professional & research publications Book publishing Professional conferences
Membership (2018)	750,000+
Official languages	Pelinese, Stelossian, Sevarian, Yukisoran, Loshkarian, Samaric
Director	Yuri Kikaihi
Affiliations	Pelinese Ministry of Defense Pelinese Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology Pelinese Ministry of Energy
Website	pvis.org.pln

The Pelinese All-Engineering Union (Stelossian: Пелинский Всеинженерский Союз, Pelinskiy Vseinzhenerskiy Soyuz), often referred to by its Stelossian language acronym PVIS, is a partially state-funded federation of Pelinese professional associations and research organizations in the fields of engineering and closely adjacent sciences. Its stated purpose is to facilitate academic research and the dissemination of technical knowledge in Pelinai, as well as to ensure the proper and orderly practice of engineering professions.

Significant activities of the PVIS include the coordination of activities and research-sharing between member organizations, the issuance of engineering certifications in Pelinai, the evaluation and accreditation of university engineering education programs, and the distribution of Pelinese state-funded grants provided for research and other purposes. Member organizations under the PVIS receive access to Union-held umbrella conferences, large amounts of taxpayer funding for research, publishing, and training activities, and other significant financial and prestige benefits in exchange for compliance with a battery of public access requirements and CPI-bound price caps on certain products and services.

The Pelinese All-Engineering Union is a member institution of the Pelograd Accord on mutual recognition of academic accreditation for engineering and engineering technology programs; as such, degrees awarded by PVIS-accredited programs retain their full validity in other signatory countries.

History

The history of the Pelinese All-Engineering Union began in 1994, when it was first established under its first director Georgiy Mashikov as a semi-descendant of the old Belogoran-vintage Subdirectorate of Engineering Personnel. The Subdirectorate had been responsible for regulating engineering licensing and continuing education since formally coming under control of the reestablished Pelinese government in 1983, as well as for functioning as the only professional association for engineers in Belogora and Pelinai, when in 1994 the Ministry of Labor made the decision to bring the Pelinese engineering licensing and accreditation process more into line with global standards in preparation for a possible accreditation-sharing treaty (which was, at the time, being contemplated by the Ministries of Education and Foreign Affairs) by converting the Subdirectorate from a direct government department into a state-sponsored professional association responsible primarily for handling academic accreditation and licensure. The new organization was additionally planned to be subdivided into a federation of discipline-specific organizations, which would function in a manner more in line with conventional professional associations elsewhere, as well as assigned some of the functions of the State Committee on Standardization as they pertained to engineering fields. While nominally state-supported like many other government entities subject to semi-privatization during the 1980s and 1990s, in practice the early PVIS typically derived between 70% and 85% of its funding per year from sales of materials such as technical standards books and continuing education courses.

The PVIS retained the conventional model for professional associations of deriving funding from selling books, academic journals, and continuing education courses from its founding in the 1990s to the late 2010s, when increasing protests from students, universities, and libraries over the prices of academic journals, textbooks, and other works led the Pelinese Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology to reevaluate the funding model used for state-sponsored organizations that publish books and research. As part of a 2018 package of educational management reforms at the MoEST(P) resulting from this, the PVIS agreed to implement open access standards for its academic publications and other similar works in exchange for state funding to replace 90% of lost revenue.

Members and associates

The Pelinese All-Engineering includes the following member and partner organizations under its coordination structure. Member organizations are entities that function as semi-independent associations under loose PVIS leadership, while partner organizations are external entities that regularly exchange consultation with the PVIS or co-host events with it.

Member organizations:

• All-Pelinese University Research Conference
• National Institute of Metalworking Technology
• Pelinese Association for Ceramic Materials
• Pelinese Association for Engineering Education
• Pelinese Association of Automotive Engineers
• Pelinese Association of Biological Engineers
• Pelinese Association of Industrial Engineers
• Pelinese Association of Marine Engineers & Naval Architects
• Pelinese Association of Nuclear Engineers
• Pelinese Institute of Agricultural Engineering
• Pelinese Institute of Biomedical Engineering
• Pelinese Institute of Engineering & Construction Management
• Pelinese Institute of Rocketry and Aerospace Engineering
• Pelinese Institute for Electro-Optical Sensors
• Pelinese Institute for Manufacturing Engineering
• Pelinese Institute for Materials Engineering
• Pelinese Institute for Robotic and Automatic Systems
• Pelinese Institute for Systems Engineering and Integration
• Pelinese Metallurgical Society
• Pelinese Mine Engineering Union
• Pelinese National Welding Society
• Pelinese Union of Chemical Engineers
• Pelinese Union of Civil Engineers
• Pelinese Union of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Pelinese Union of Fire & Civil Defense Engineers
• Pelinese Union of Mechanical Engineers
• Pelinese Union of Petroleum Engineers

Associated organizations:

• Alliance of Pelinese Heavy Industries
• Conference of Pelinese Aerospace Manufacturers
• Pelinese Association of Foundries and Metalworks
• Pelinese Industrial Machine-builders’ Conference
• Pelinese federal government
  • Ministry of Defense
  • Ministry of Economics
  • Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology
  • Ministry of Energy

Activities

July 2024 issue of PSIM Journal of Turbines and Turbomachinery, an academic journal published by the PVIS.

The primary tasks of the Pelinese All-Engineering Union are to distribute state research & other funding, to administer licensing for engineers working in Pelinai, to organize interdisciplinary activities between multiple professional associations, and to perform accreditation functions for Pelinese university courses in engineering disciplines. Beyond these core activities and its insurance of member organizations’ compliance with the requirements applied to state-funded professional bodies, the PVIS generally leaves functions such as the operation of professional and academic journals, the creation of technical standards, and the production of continuing education courses to the organizations under it.

Accreditation and certifications

The Pelinese All-Engineering Union is the Pelograd Accord-registered organization responsible for performing accreditation of university engineering courses offered by Pelinese universities and for managing Pelinai’s engineering licensure system. Within the framework and requirements set by the Accord, it manages content and academic rigor requirements for degree programs, the evaluation system for providing engineering licenses, and the continuing education requirements for maintaining an engineering license.

Conferences

While most academic conferences and trade shows organized under the umbrella of the Pelinese All-Engineering Union are the responsibility of its various member organizations, it also organizes a limited number of annual and biannual conferences for topics that pertain to broader subjects than are adequately covered by a single engineering discipline; these primarily include the annual All-Pelinese Engineering Research Conference, which covers all subjects of engineering, and the quarterly National Specialized Engineering Conference, which covers research on a specific topic chosen to be the theme of the conference. The annual Pelinese All-Industrial Convention trade show is also jointly organized by the PVIS with the involvement of the Pelinese Ministry of Economics and the Alliance of Pelinese Heavy Industries.

In addition to organizing conferences and trade shows, the PVIS also attends most engineering-related conventions held in Pelinai and a handful of those held abroad through representatives.

Funding

One of the basic purposes of the Pelinese All-Engineering Union is to relay government-provided research and other educational funding from the Pelinese Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology to the many professional associations under it. PVIS members agree to a substantial number of conditions in exchange for this funding, primary including:

• Mandatory open access release of all research papers, technical reports, and other similar documents published by or through the professional association
• Free online release of all technical standards created and set by the professional association
• inflation-pegged price caps on certain services, such as continuing education courses

Publications

The Pelinese All-Engineering Union possesses its own publishing house, the All-Pelinese Engineering Press, which is responsible for publishing and printing materials produced by both the PVIS and its member associations: this primarily includes engineering textbooks & reference books, technical reports & position papers, engineering case studies, and printed copies of PVIS-affiliated academic journals & conference proceedings, as well as various other types of miscellaneous materials. It also prints the professional magazine Pelinese Engineer, which covers technical advances, regulations & standards, business climate changes, and other topics relevant to engineers in Pelinai.

The PVIS is currently the largest publisher of technical reference books in Pelinai, with a total market share of roughly 61% compared to universities’ 33% and commercial publishers’ 6%. It also publishes 21% of all engineering textbooks written in Pelinai, as well as 93% of all academic research conducted in Pelinai pertaining to engineering and materials science.

See also

• Education in Pelinai
• Science and technology in Pelinai