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Value in IEng Registration

Allan Rowan
Afternoon all, just sitting behind a laptop screen pondering and found myself plotting course for my career progression and seemingly unlikely professional registration for CEng.


My current employer has encouraged that I achieve CEng registration (easier said than done) and any promotion to the next grade would be subject to attaining CEng. I'm wary of submitting my application for CEng due to not having an adequate level of education (I have a Bachelors degree only)  and at my age there's little chance of me returning to university for further study. I'm employed as a senior engineer and acting principal engineer within a project I'm currently commissioned. I appreciate that working at a principal engineer level does not necessarily provide the evidence required to prove that my understanding and knowledge is at a MEng level.


Rewind a few years, I was reasonably proud of successful registration and to achieve IEng, however, to date I'm of the opinion that it has done little else other than measurement / benchmark of my competence and identify area's in which I need to strengthen. My employer (at the time of registration) did not professionally recognise IEng registration and from my own observations nor do other employers (that I've noticed). A cursory glance of job listings on LinkedIn, shall normally state a requirement for applicants to hold CEng registration or working towards CEng with no mention of IEng. There's an immense pressure to achieve Chartership and with failure to do so could be possibly observed as I'm either inadequate or not quite cutting the grade by a prospective or current employer.


Is there any value to the IEng registration other than a personal achievement and worth maintaining? I imagine the nervousness and apprehension about navigating the CEng route and the fear of failure that I'm not unique in this respect and other's may have a similar story? Not sure what I would wish to hear, but knowing of others that succeeded with a similar background and level of education would provide some encouragement.


Regards,

Allan. 

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    Andy Millar:

    ... to be honest I think the PEIs would be pushing against a brick wall if they did try to promote IEng more. Industry values its "IEng" staff but sees no need for them to be registered by a third party. 




    Very true. I also think that it is wrong to say that the IET undervalues IEng. There are certain people who undervalue IEng and they tend to be CEng though from my experience of meeting IEng and CEng they tend to be a minority, but unfortunately seem to be rather vocal. (I have a suspicion that they tend to be those who struggled to get CEng and therefore want to make out CEng is an elite, but I will leave it to the psychologists to work on that thought).

    The biggest difficulty we have is altering preconceptions/prejudices. The difficulty of eliminating racial prejudice (or even sex discrimination) is a demonstration of this, and shows that it can take years to make a difference.

    The views that are seen to be held by the IET are the views held by the members who are actively participating in the running of the IET. Perhaps part of the answer is that those of us who value all categories of registration (and I am not just limiting it to CEng and IEng here) should take a more active part in the running of the Institution. Unfortunately I am as guilty as anyone else in feeling I am too busy elsewhere to spare the time....

    Alasdair

    Late edit:

    Just read Roy's post. Well thought out and cogent as usual - the suggestion for a separate body for IEng and EngTech is thought provoking. Perhaps the IET should set up such an internal body to show the need in the wider engineering community.


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    Andy Millar:

    ... to be honest I think the PEIs would be pushing against a brick wall if they did try to promote IEng more. Industry values its "IEng" staff but sees no need for them to be registered by a third party. 




    Very true. I also think that it is wrong to say that the IET undervalues IEng. There are certain people who undervalue IEng and they tend to be CEng though from my experience of meeting IEng and CEng they tend to be a minority, but unfortunately seem to be rather vocal. (I have a suspicion that they tend to be those who struggled to get CEng and therefore want to make out CEng is an elite, but I will leave it to the psychologists to work on that thought).

    The biggest difficulty we have is altering preconceptions/prejudices. The difficulty of eliminating racial prejudice (or even sex discrimination) is a demonstration of this, and shows that it can take years to make a difference.

    The views that are seen to be held by the IET are the views held by the members who are actively participating in the running of the IET. Perhaps part of the answer is that those of us who value all categories of registration (and I am not just limiting it to CEng and IEng here) should take a more active part in the running of the Institution. Unfortunately I am as guilty as anyone else in feeling I am too busy elsewhere to spare the time....

    Alasdair

    Late edit:

    Just read Roy's post. Well thought out and cogent as usual - the suggestion for a separate body for IEng and EngTech is thought provoking. Perhaps the IET should set up such an internal body to show the need in the wider engineering community.


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