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IntPE(UK) Registration

Liam Barness

Good afternoon all,

I'm looking for some advice regarding IntPE eligibility. The IET has the following criteria for persons eligible for IntPE

Am I eligible?

  • You need to be an IET Member who is registered as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the IET.
  • Your qualifications must include an accredited degree or equivalent.
  • You need seven years of post-grad experience and two years of responsibility for significant engineering works.
  • You must be maintaining continuous professional development to an appropriate standard.

The engineering council also has this within their guidance notes.

Education
4. Applicants should note that the following meanings apply to the definition of ‘graduation’:
• Accredited degrees – the date the degree is awarded
• Non-accredited degrees – the date the degree is awarded, unless a top-up is required
• Top-up requirement (Further Learning) – the date the last requirement is completed/awarded
• Engineering Council Examination – the date the last examination is passed, that satisfies the educational requirement for CEng.


To summarise -

I have an accredited BEng degree according to the Washington accord which was completed in 2014.

Over 10 years experience in engineering positions within the oil & gas industry

An accredited MSc which was completed in 2021 (also recognised by the washington accord)

And have been a chartered engineeer with the IET since 2021. 

However, I'm being told that I don't meet the criteria as 7 years post masters is needed, which doesn't feel right. Has anyone got any experience/advice on this please? Or are there any ways people have got around it? My years prior to my masters within engineering seem to have been completely neglected.

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Liam

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    Hi Liam,

    We've discovered here before (if you search on these forums for IntPE) that unfortunately there doesn't seem to have been anybody on these forums that knows much about IntPE. But here's my non-expert understanding:

    Unfortunately it looks as if you have been told correctly, if you look here:

    https://www.engc.org.uk/international-activity/international-engineering-education-accords/washington-accord/

    you'll see that a Washington Accord degree is (my underlining):

    • an accredited Bachelors in Engineering with Honours (BEng(Hons)) degree plus an accredited Masters degree or an accredited Engineering Doctorate (EngD) [or]
    • an accredited integrated Masters in Engineering (MEng) degree

    Your bachelors may have been accredited, but as I understand it, it wasn't a "Washington Accord Degree" until you'd added the Masters.

    So it looks as if your choices for obtaining IntPE are either:

    All of this could explain why so few people on these forums can advise on this...I can't imagine there's very many of us who are actually eligible for it! (For example I've got over 40 years post-grad experience, am CEng FIET, have something like 30 years "responsibility for significant engineering work" up to the equivalent of Technical Director level, and yet I'd have to go and take a new qualification from that list to be eligible for IntPE.)

    Sorry that's not the answer you were looking for, it may still be worth checking with  profreg@theiet.org if you haven't already to check that there is no alternative route (you didn't say who'd advised you when you wrote "I'm being told").

    And also check that IntPE will actually be of use to you in your career anyway...don't assume you need it, or even that it will be helpful. I'm guessing you are looking at career options in a non-UK country, it's worth checking if you can with other UK ex-pat engineers there to find out what they actually needed to be allowed to work.

    Good luck, if you do find anything more please do come back here and share it.

    Thanks,

    Andy

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