Dr. Amer Ali said: “This partnership, which is a formal certification and recognition of the continuing and growing collaboration between LSBU and PWI, strengthens and supports the mission of both LSBU and PWI to ensure that graduate engineers have the best academic and professional qualifications they need to be competent and skilful in their engineering career”. This academic-professional partnership agreement is one of four similar partnerships that Dr Ali developed and signed with the ICE, CIHT, IHE and PWI. Dr Ali who is specialised in highway and transportation engineering has developed and taught various transport courses and modules including railways, highways and traffic engineering, in addition to coordinating and teaching a major professional development scheme for LSBU civil engineering students which he created in 2015. “These are within my mission and capacity as a Fellow of the above four PEIs, a Lead Reviewer for the CEng/IEng professional qualifications, and a member