Roll up your sleeves, fix bayonets and prepare for get on with it or it wll be a long journey........


Having just completed a near 14 year experience, WHAT!!! 14 years I hear you cry, (tut, tut). I got my CEng with nothing more than a city and guilds 236pts 1 and 2, a few Neebosh certs (3) a cert and diploma in asset managemnt (aka common sense decision making) and making time to complete a journey of self improvment!


I am so proud I did it, I started on the good old paper forms years ago and came across career manager about 3-4 years ago. And thats when I knew, start here and you will finish, its just time, narrative and applcation. To be frank I would have been happy with IEng, but having spent many years in construction, and im not ashamed to say fighting with inept design companies and engineers about first principles being forgotten then I knew I would tick the CEng box. 


Please Note, just when I thought I was done teh IET asked for more....twice.. That nearly was the straw that made me give up. But now I see why.


You need to be a bit selfish and sell yourself and the best engineers are always the humblist and most passionate. They are also always busy on jobs, so making time is imperative. I do wish some lamens guides were produced it would increase numbers tenfold if they did.


Other than that lock yourself away on a sunday or fifteen somewhere quiet and read and type, slowly. Then prepare for a constructive kicking from peers...

Roll up your sleeves, fix bayonets and prepare for get on with it or it wll be a long journey........


Having just completed a near 14 year experience, WHAT!!! 14 years I hear you cry, (tut, tut). I got my CEng with nothing more than a city and guilds 236pts 1 and 2, a few Neebosh certs (3) a cert and diploma in asset managemnt (aka common sense decision making) and making time to complete a journey of self improvment!


I am so proud I did it, I started on the good old paper forms years ago and came across career manager about 3-4 years ago. And thats when I knew, start here and you will finish, its just time, narrative and applcation. To be frank I would have been happy with IEng, but having spent many years in construction, and im not ashamed to say fighting with inept design companies and engineers about first principles being forgotten then I knew I would tick the CEng box. 


Please Note, just when I thought I was done teh IET asked for more....twice.. That nearly was the straw that made me give up. But now I see why.


You need to be a bit selfish and sell yourself and the best engineers are always the humblist and most passionate. They are also always busy on jobs, so making time is imperative. I do wish some lamens guides were produced it would increase numbers tenfold if they did.


Other than that lock yourself away on a sunday or fifteen somewhere quiet and read and type, slowly. Then prepare for a constructive kicking from peers...