Olutayo: 
Please how best is the question on "sustainability " could be addressed or answered, please?

Since this thread has been bumped up the list, and this question remains unanswered, and it's a common question (also often asked re “ethics” and “safe systems of work”), here's the advice I give candidates:

There's no “right” template answer to these, the interviewers will know straight away if you just give a textbook answer. So DON'T say “Sustainability is important to all engineering projects because…”, you need to say “On xxx project I considered … and so I decided to …"

So what you need to do before the interview is to think about the project you are presenting, and then look at categories E2, E3 and E5 *, and think “how does this project show I have an awareness of these?” And ideally “and where have I applied that awareness to this project?”

If the project you're presenting doesn't require an awareness of one or more of these topics - it does happen - then you should prepare for these questions by thinking about other pieces of work where you did need to have awareness and understanding of them, and ideally can show you've applied them.

If you have a PRA it's a good thing to discuss with them - what we can sometimes do is get you to talk through the work you do and highlight where parts of it are showing these competences.

To put this in context: Why are these competences so important to the registration process? Because professional registration is not just about being a technically competent engineer (that's what your degree etc is for!), but showing that you can professionally apply that technical competence to the complicated and messy real world. That you can think beyond the wiring diagram to the impact your work, and the way you go about that work, has on the wider world. And then how you use that to influence your engineering decisions. 

You don't have to show you've done anything amazing, just enough to show that these 'E' Competences are part of your everyday thought processes when working on your projects.

Thanks,

Andy

 * P.S. Of course this approach applies to all competences, but my experience is that these are the three where candidates often struggle to know even where to start with them.

Olutayo: 
Please how best is the question on "sustainability " could be addressed or answered, please?

Since this thread has been bumped up the list, and this question remains unanswered, and it's a common question (also often asked re “ethics” and “safe systems of work”), here's the advice I give candidates:

There's no “right” template answer to these, the interviewers will know straight away if you just give a textbook answer. So DON'T say “Sustainability is important to all engineering projects because…”, you need to say “On xxx project I considered … and so I decided to …"

So what you need to do before the interview is to think about the project you are presenting, and then look at categories E2, E3 and E5 *, and think “how does this project show I have an awareness of these?” And ideally “and where have I applied that awareness to this project?”

If the project you're presenting doesn't require an awareness of one or more of these topics - it does happen - then you should prepare for these questions by thinking about other pieces of work where you did need to have awareness and understanding of them, and ideally can show you've applied them.

If you have a PRA it's a good thing to discuss with them - what we can sometimes do is get you to talk through the work you do and highlight where parts of it are showing these competences.

To put this in context: Why are these competences so important to the registration process? Because professional registration is not just about being a technically competent engineer (that's what your degree etc is for!), but showing that you can professionally apply that technical competence to the complicated and messy real world. That you can think beyond the wiring diagram to the impact your work, and the way you go about that work, has on the wider world. And then how you use that to influence your engineering decisions. 

You don't have to show you've done anything amazing, just enough to show that these 'E' Competences are part of your everyday thought processes when working on your projects.

Thanks,

Andy

 * P.S. Of course this approach applies to all competences, but my experience is that these are the three where candidates often struggle to know even where to start with them.