I have been trying for over 9 months to be registered as a Chartered Engineer. I have been an I.Eng since 1975 - thats 45+ years. I have 53 years engineering experience within the MoD & defence industries which, you would have thought, would qualify me for C.Eng. But NO! My application has been turned down for unknown reasons - I've been through a PRA who advised me that I'd be certain to achieve Chartered status and a lot of help that was. I am fed u[p with the IET requirement for supporting evidence; I've advised them that I am almost 70, most, in fact almost all of my compatriates are either dead, retired or senile!!!! The evidence is NOT available. So I have found the IET route to chartered status a total waste of time - may be ok for you youngsters but it is not at all kind to oldies like me. I shall not take the IET route but register via a far more mature-engineer friendly path. The IET? Total waste of time and effort!!!!

I have been trying for over 9 months to be registered as a Chartered Engineer. I have been an I.Eng since 1975 - thats 45+ years. I have 53 years engineering experience within the MoD & defence industries which, you would have thought, would qualify me for C.Eng. But NO! My application has been turned down for unknown reasons - I've been through a PRA who advised me that I'd be certain to achieve Chartered status and a lot of help that was. I am fed u[p with the IET requirement for supporting evidence; I've advised them that I am almost 70, most, in fact almost all of my compatriates are either dead, retired or senile!!!! The evidence is NOT available. So I have found the IET route to chartered status a total waste of time - may be ok for you youngsters but it is not at all kind to oldies like me. I shall not take the IET route but register via a far more mature-engineer friendly path. The IET? Total waste of time and effort!!!!