Challenges for Academics Applying for CEng

It may depend on what sort of academic we're talking about here.

I have known university lecturers with Chartered Engineer status.  They will have written up business cases for research projects, applied for funding, recuruited PhD students or postdoc researchers, and maganged the research projects.

This is essentially the same as an R&D group leader in industry. And nobody would claim that they couldn't be chartered.

I think it very much depends. I've met many a university lecturer that, not only where developing their own courses, but were engaged in research coming up with some very good engineering ideas. Mmany of them were CEng's (or similar) and for those that were not, they absolutely could be if they desired.

But I've also come across an academic, who wrote a book which we used as a course book for a project management course, that the content clearly indicated that they had done very little real world systems engineering. This is the pure science researcher. I would argue they lack certain engineering competencies, regardless of if they are a PhD or not. They probably would meet the requirements for Chartered status in a science domain, such as CPhys. Which I'm going to state, isn't a lower standard, but it has a different scope.

Although, i've come across similar cases with corporate trainers giving requirements courses! They often assume a perfection of stakeholder requirements that never exists.

I think it very much depends. I've met many a university lecturer that, not only where developing their own courses, but were engaged in research coming up with some very good engineering ideas. Mmany of them were CEng's (or similar) and for those that were not, they absolutely could be if they desired.

But I've also come across an academic, who wrote a book which we used as a course book for a project management course, that the content clearly indicated that they had done very little real world systems engineering. This is the pure science researcher. I would argue they lack certain engineering competencies, regardless of if they are a PhD or not. They probably would meet the requirements for Chartered status in a science domain, such as CPhys. Which I'm going to state, isn't a lower standard, but it has a different scope.

Although, i've come across similar cases with corporate trainers giving requirements courses! They often assume a perfection of stakeholder requirements that never exists.