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My degree hasn't been accredited by IET have I joined the wrong Institution?

Former Community Member over 3 years ago

I am looking to start applying for CEng and joined the IET as my work place is advising on this institution. But when I searched for my MEng degree it doesn't appear to have been accredited by IET. However other institutions IMechE, RAeS and IEE have accredited it for CEng.

Does this mean that I need to leave IET and join on of these three institutions instead?

Finally I am confused on what exemplifying qualification means. In the UK SPEC, the competency and commitment for CEng A to E. Does the MEng exemplify an applicant from any of these or does it just give you the ability to simply apply?

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0 Roy Bowdler over 3 years ago

An undergraduate degree in engineering is usually designed to prepare a teenager for their subsequent career, including an academic career. Traditionally the majority are focussed in a particular direction, often aligned to the territory of a professional institution who may be asked to accredit the course.

However, in many cases a significant proportion of graduates “leak away” from pursuing a specialist career that is closely aligned to the degree focus, either immediately or after a few years by moving into more general management roles.

The IET was intended to include the IMechE in a “broad church” of overlapping practice, but at the last minute an IMechE member’s vote went in favour of staying independent. I understand that ICE was also interested, since different specialist groupings within an umbrella organisation, would arguably be more efficient and influential? The IIE was already a merger of predecessor Electrical and Mechanical institutions. It had CEng members and a licence to register CEng.

Degree Apprenticeships involve university and employer partnerships intended to train someone to carry out a specific type of job role, with ideally a close association between “theory” and practice. Therefore, participants are more likely to follow a specific career pathway.

The business model of some employers may offer narrow specialisation, but the fortunes of employers, or even whole sectors of employment (remember Coal Mining?) can fluctuate. Some domain knowledge remains relatively steady, whereas some is hopelessly outdated within a few years.

Some employers of graduate engineers have long bemoaned in IET surveys, that their recruits lack important basic skills. This is because they expect a degree to have been a “training programme”, when the academics were just trying to “educate” their students.
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0 Roy Bowdler over 3 years ago

An undergraduate degree in engineering is usually designed to prepare a teenager for their subsequent career, including an academic career. Traditionally the majority are focussed in a particular direction, often aligned to the territory of a professional institution who may be asked to accredit the course.

However, in many cases a significant proportion of graduates “leak away” from pursuing a specialist career that is closely aligned to the degree focus, either immediately or after a few years by moving into more general management roles.

The IET was intended to include the IMechE in a “broad church” of overlapping practice, but at the last minute an IMechE member’s vote went in favour of staying independent. I understand that ICE was also interested, since different specialist groupings within an umbrella organisation, would arguably be more efficient and influential? The IIE was already a merger of predecessor Electrical and Mechanical institutions. It had CEng members and a licence to register CEng.

Degree Apprenticeships involve university and employer partnerships intended to train someone to carry out a specific type of job role, with ideally a close association between “theory” and practice. Therefore, participants are more likely to follow a specific career pathway.

The business model of some employers may offer narrow specialisation, but the fortunes of employers, or even whole sectors of employment (remember Coal Mining?) can fluctuate. Some domain knowledge remains relatively steady, whereas some is hopelessly outdated within a few years.

Some employers of graduate engineers have long bemoaned in IET surveys, that their recruits lack important basic skills. This is because they expect a degree to have been a “training programme”, when the academics were just trying to “educate” their students.
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