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Is it important to have a Washington Accord degree?

Andy Millar
Following up on a couple of threads here, does anyone here have experience on whether NOT having a Washington Accord degree (e.g. an IET accredited degree) makes it harder to get jobs in any particular countries?


Or, to put it the other way around, whether having one does actually make it easier in particular countries?


It's a question that frequently comes up here, and I don't ever remember seeing an answer.


Personally I don't remember ever hearing engineers saying they had a problem with mobility to any country, whatever their qualifications, (even to Canada, provided their process is followed), but I'd hesitate to say I have enough experience to say that this really isn't something to be concerned about.


Thanks,


Andy
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    mbirdi:

    Andy, perhaps on a wider field, we should question why the IET and EC want everyone to be aware of accredited degrees below:


    I think that's an easy one to answer: the role of the EC and the PEIs is to raise (or at least maintain) standards in the engineering profession, so accrediting degrees is a sensible way of doing this, and in principle a Good Thing. As is trying to achieve a level (high) playing field of engineering excellence across the world, which is the aim of the Washington Accord.


    But for the up and coming engineer who doesn't yet have an accredited degree, they need information to make the individual judgement "What is the value I personally will get from spending x thousands of (insert currency here) and y years of my life on getting an accredited degree? Or doing this appealing  but non-accredited degree as compared to this less appealing but accredited degree? Will I be trapped if I don't do it?" And that last question is a particularly good and important one, hence this thread...


    Cheers,


    Andy 


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    mbirdi:

    Andy, perhaps on a wider field, we should question why the IET and EC want everyone to be aware of accredited degrees below:


    I think that's an easy one to answer: the role of the EC and the PEIs is to raise (or at least maintain) standards in the engineering profession, so accrediting degrees is a sensible way of doing this, and in principle a Good Thing. As is trying to achieve a level (high) playing field of engineering excellence across the world, which is the aim of the Washington Accord.


    But for the up and coming engineer who doesn't yet have an accredited degree, they need information to make the individual judgement "What is the value I personally will get from spending x thousands of (insert currency here) and y years of my life on getting an accredited degree? Or doing this appealing  but non-accredited degree as compared to this less appealing but accredited degree? Will I be trapped if I don't do it?" And that last question is a particularly good and important one, hence this thread...


    Cheers,


    Andy 


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