I 100% disagree with that. This is on the basis of having worked as a PRA with many engineers over the past couple of years, at mid ranking and senior level, who have been aiming at CEng but - and I think all PRAs will say the same story - because they are primarily project engineers rather than "deep technical" engineers they meet the IEng criteria but not CEng. Across particularly the PEI's core sectors, infrastructure, utilities, military, a huge proportion of the engineers absolutely bang on meet the IEng criteria up to very senior project engineer / manager / director level. And sometimes they don't like hearing "you don't meet CEng".  


A junior engineer, i.e. a recent graduate / recent ex-apprentice with 1-3 years experience is very very (vanishingly) unlikely to meet IEng criteria. They don't normally have the "management" (very much in quotes, it's a whole range of broad based skills) experience. Once they have it they are eligible for IEng AND for a full engineer position - but they will need the full engineer position first.


Thanks,


Andy

I 100% disagree with that. This is on the basis of having worked as a PRA with many engineers over the past couple of years, at mid ranking and senior level, who have been aiming at CEng but - and I think all PRAs will say the same story - because they are primarily project engineers rather than "deep technical" engineers they meet the IEng criteria but not CEng. Across particularly the PEI's core sectors, infrastructure, utilities, military, a huge proportion of the engineers absolutely bang on meet the IEng criteria up to very senior project engineer / manager / director level. And sometimes they don't like hearing "you don't meet CEng".  


A junior engineer, i.e. a recent graduate / recent ex-apprentice with 1-3 years experience is very very (vanishingly) unlikely to meet IEng criteria. They don't normally have the "management" (very much in quotes, it's a whole range of broad based skills) experience. Once they have it they are eligible for IEng AND for a full engineer position - but they will need the full engineer position first.


Thanks,


Andy