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Requesting Guidance and Support for IET Fellowship Application

Ravi Babu Vellanki

Hello Fellow Engineers,

I’m currently applying for the Fellowship of the IET (FIET) and am seeking guidance or support from existing IET Fellows who could assist with a reference or share insights from their own experience.

I have over a decade of experience in enterprise database architecture, AI/ML innovation, and digital transformation projects across financial and healthcare sectors. I’m a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of ISACA, and hold other technical fellowships and recognitions (including from Raptors, IOASD, and Globee Awards).

If you're a FIET or have been through the process, I would be truly grateful for any advice or mentorship—or if you are open to supporting my application as a referee.

Digital Verification: la.utexas.edu/.../digitalVerification.html

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration!

Warm regards,
Ravibabu Vellanki
Senior Member – IEEE
Fellow-IETE | Fellow – ISACA | IOASD | Raptors

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    Hi Ravi,

    The best thing to do is to contact a Fellowship advisor https://pra.theiet.org/search-advisor , they can discuss your application with you and confidentially advise on how to meet the criteria with your specific experience - it's not always obvious, so it is really worth seeking their advice. (I am a fellowship advisor / PRA myself but I'm not taking on any more cases at the moment as I have too many on.)

    I can give the big piece of general advice here: It's very common that when we see the first draft of a fellowship application we'll comment that it looks like a Chartered Engineer application - "this is why I'm a (highly) competent engineer". (In fact that was the first comment on my own first draft application many years ago!) This is not what is being looked for at all. Fellowship is all about achievement and impact. It's about showing that because of your competent engineering and your drive and expertise you are seen as an industry wide expert in your field, or made so much money for your business, or created so many patents, or improved working practices across your industry sector etc etc. Having said that, the criteria can make it look like you need to be Bill Gates to apply, it's not looking for impact necessarily on that large a scale, it can be an impact on a very niche area of engineering or society. But the key thing is that the "this is what I did" parts of your application are only to lead to "and this is how that was recognised by the industry" or "and this was the impact on society".

    Regarding supporters, generally fellowship advisors can't support applicants as the supporters need to have known you personally, however there are ways of managing this - your fellowship advisor should be able to explain your options.

    Hope that helps, good luck,

    Andy

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    Hi Ravi,

    The best thing to do is to contact a Fellowship advisor https://pra.theiet.org/search-advisor , they can discuss your application with you and confidentially advise on how to meet the criteria with your specific experience - it's not always obvious, so it is really worth seeking their advice. (I am a fellowship advisor / PRA myself but I'm not taking on any more cases at the moment as I have too many on.)

    I can give the big piece of general advice here: It's very common that when we see the first draft of a fellowship application we'll comment that it looks like a Chartered Engineer application - "this is why I'm a (highly) competent engineer". (In fact that was the first comment on my own first draft application many years ago!) This is not what is being looked for at all. Fellowship is all about achievement and impact. It's about showing that because of your competent engineering and your drive and expertise you are seen as an industry wide expert in your field, or made so much money for your business, or created so many patents, or improved working practices across your industry sector etc etc. Having said that, the criteria can make it look like you need to be Bill Gates to apply, it's not looking for impact necessarily on that large a scale, it can be an impact on a very niche area of engineering or society. But the key thing is that the "this is what I did" parts of your application are only to lead to "and this is how that was recognised by the industry" or "and this was the impact on society".

    Regarding supporters, generally fellowship advisors can't support applicants as the supporters need to have known you personally, however there are ways of managing this - your fellowship advisor should be able to explain your options.

    Hope that helps, good luck,

    Andy

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