Good morning. I have recently decided to apply for an EngTech accreditation. I completed all the applications and supporting evidence, which I sent to a PRA for review. Apart from satisfying all the criteria for EngTech, he commented that my evidence leans more towards IEng. After checking the academic qualifications, I soon discovered that you also require a degree or other forms of higher education......which unfortunately I do not hold. My question is, has anyone gained IEng status without and degree's or higher education (BEng, BSc, etc)? Kind Regards Simon
Based on what you have said I could propose a presentation based on my input (client side verification of specification and witness testing) on a project and prepare to be questioned on the various aspects that the project is comprised of?
Colin
Hi,
Like Roy I'm not quite clear on what you're suggesting, but just to clarify that what they want to understand is what you do and how you do it, not on your technical understanding of someone else's work.
As Roy says, if you've been invited to interview then your application must have been seen to be ok, so all you're doing is demonstrating that face-to-face and to give the interviewers a chance to check you really do work in the way you've said you work. So don't feel you have to show anything different in the interview presentation.
You don't have to carry out design work for IEng (or CEng!) anyway. For IEng "Contribute to the design and development of engineering solutions" and "Implement design solutions and contribute to their evaluation". Someone else can do the design work. "All" you have to show in principle is that you are making sure that the design (including pre-existing designs) is being implemented correctly, and that, where required, you are identifying and reporting back on any issues or potential improvements.
Hard to get into more details than that on a forum because it's so dependent on individual cases, if you have time before the interview you could request a PRA just to help advise on that.
But basically find an interesting project, ideally something you're proud of, where you can show what you are capable of doing. The trick is to find one where the technical issues were a bit odd and challenging, and so where you had to use some of your own experience and judgement to make sure it was successful.
Based on what you have said I could propose a presentation based on my input (client side verification of specification and witness testing) on a project and prepare to be questioned on the various aspects that the project is comprised of?
Colin
Hi,
Like Roy I'm not quite clear on what you're suggesting, but just to clarify that what they want to understand is what you do and how you do it, not on your technical understanding of someone else's work.
As Roy says, if you've been invited to interview then your application must have been seen to be ok, so all you're doing is demonstrating that face-to-face and to give the interviewers a chance to check you really do work in the way you've said you work. So don't feel you have to show anything different in the interview presentation.
You don't have to carry out design work for IEng (or CEng!) anyway. For IEng "Contribute to the design and development of engineering solutions" and "Implement design solutions and contribute to their evaluation". Someone else can do the design work. "All" you have to show in principle is that you are making sure that the design (including pre-existing designs) is being implemented correctly, and that, where required, you are identifying and reporting back on any issues or potential improvements.
Hard to get into more details than that on a forum because it's so dependent on individual cases, if you have time before the interview you could request a PRA just to help advise on that.
But basically find an interesting project, ideally something you're proud of, where you can show what you are capable of doing. The trick is to find one where the technical issues were a bit odd and challenging, and so where you had to use some of your own experience and judgement to make sure it was successful.
