Hi Ali,

Very simplistically - as quality engineer are you going to be writing the rules, or are you going to be interpreting the rules and applying them to difficult situations? If it's the first then you may be able to apply for CEng, if it's the second you're more likely to achieve IEng. 

There is a bit more to it than that, it also depends what the company does - if it's in a very high risk area where day-to-day quality engineering decisions are literally life or death (or potentially costing millions) then again a job which might be more IEng in a more typical company could become CEng. 

Career-wise CEng is the more valuable, you will regularly see jobs advertised as "CEng preferred" (or even, rarely, "CEng essential") but you won't see IEng mentioned much in job ads - actually I've personally never seen it mentioned at all. But, particularly as non-graduate, IEng will still be useful even if it's not advertised for, and its a really useful process just working towards it. And for a typical quality engineer IEng would be the expected category.

Hope that helps, 

Thanks,

Andy

Hi Ali,

Very simplistically - as quality engineer are you going to be writing the rules, or are you going to be interpreting the rules and applying them to difficult situations? If it's the first then you may be able to apply for CEng, if it's the second you're more likely to achieve IEng. 

There is a bit more to it than that, it also depends what the company does - if it's in a very high risk area where day-to-day quality engineering decisions are literally life or death (or potentially costing millions) then again a job which might be more IEng in a more typical company could become CEng. 

Career-wise CEng is the more valuable, you will regularly see jobs advertised as "CEng preferred" (or even, rarely, "CEng essential") but you won't see IEng mentioned much in job ads - actually I've personally never seen it mentioned at all. But, particularly as non-graduate, IEng will still be useful even if it's not advertised for, and its a really useful process just working towards it. And for a typical quality engineer IEng would be the expected category.

Hope that helps, 

Thanks,

Andy