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Should I apply for IEng or CEng and is there any particular requirements?

Tanvir Khan

I am an Electrical Engineering who works within the Railway Industry and have 5 1/2 years of experience working on a variety of projects such as station design, depot lighting and power distribution. I have a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. I started my IEng application 3 to 4 years ago but due to the lack of time and not understanding the process very well. I just recently got the application ready however Charted Engineers within my company and my line manager have stated that it would be more beneficial for me if I tailored my IEng application to a CEng application and fill in any missing gaps in the next 6 months. They stated that i should speak to someone within the IET but when i asked my PRA they did not provide me with a straight answer but just reviewed my application. I have looked into the UK Spec for CEng and I have evidence for a lot of the sections. Therefore I am hoping someone can help me in this forum and point me in the right direction because I am aiming to become Senior Engineer.

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    Hi,

    The first comment I would make is that there are plenty of people that achieve CEng with a bachelors degree.

    Technically, the Engineering Council defines the requirement for a CEng as an accredited bachelors plus an accredited masters (or an accredited integrated masters). Therefore the first challenge is to demonstrate that your 5 1/2 years of experience provides the equivelent learning outcomes to that accredited masters. This is a fairly challenging analysis.

    The second part is the competencies. Your question suggests that you have already looked at the competence statements. There is a lot of commonality between IEng and CEng. I would always recommend looking at the places where the wording of the competence differs between IEng and CEng, as these are often key. As an example, C1/C2 uses the word "significant".

    It may be that you have some gaps. It may be that there are many areas that you can already demonstrate the compences.

    Ultimately it depends what those gaps are. C1/C2 can often be a challenge because you essentially have to be taking some responsibility for aspects of a "reasonably" sized project. Note this doesn't mean you are managing people (although that can be helpful).

    But if you were a project engineer, that was not having any responsibility for either technical direction, people or project delivery, then I would say you may not be able to demonstrate those competences.

    Note; I'm not a PRA/PRI for the IET (I'm a PRA for a different institution), so I don't know the precise details fo the IET's process.

    Mark

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    Hi,

    The first comment I would make is that there are plenty of people that achieve CEng with a bachelors degree.

    Technically, the Engineering Council defines the requirement for a CEng as an accredited bachelors plus an accredited masters (or an accredited integrated masters). Therefore the first challenge is to demonstrate that your 5 1/2 years of experience provides the equivelent learning outcomes to that accredited masters. This is a fairly challenging analysis.

    The second part is the competencies. Your question suggests that you have already looked at the competence statements. There is a lot of commonality between IEng and CEng. I would always recommend looking at the places where the wording of the competence differs between IEng and CEng, as these are often key. As an example, C1/C2 uses the word "significant".

    It may be that you have some gaps. It may be that there are many areas that you can already demonstrate the compences.

    Ultimately it depends what those gaps are. C1/C2 can often be a challenge because you essentially have to be taking some responsibility for aspects of a "reasonably" sized project. Note this doesn't mean you are managing people (although that can be helpful).

    But if you were a project engineer, that was not having any responsibility for either technical direction, people or project delivery, then I would say you may not be able to demonstrate those competences.

    Note; I'm not a PRA/PRI for the IET (I'm a PRA for a different institution), so I don't know the precise details fo the IET's process.

    Mark

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