charted Engineers, i'm a final year student studying electrical and electronic engineering in a nigeria university,a student member,and 21 yrs of age.how do become a charted engineer after graduation within the shortest possible time.
If you have no pre university experience and start work or training/professional development after September 1999, you will need to follow SARTOR 97 rules not SARTOR 90 as suggested.
You will need to complete Form RPD to register the start of your structured Professional Development with the institution. Guide M5a explains SARTOR 97 Professional Development for CEng Candidates; web links to these are given below.
If you had a Year in Industry whilst at University this can be claimed as part of your professional development.
I am presently working toward CEng & MIEE award under the Previous SATOR requirements. Reading this disscussion thread brings me to raise two questions about my own likely route to these awards.
- In the period between now and Dec 2004 (which I understand to be the drop dead date for sator 90), what would count as resonable experience. What levels of responsibility will I have to be able to demonstrate?
- Assumming the worst case and I am declined membership in december 2004, how would I have to re-launch my application for membership and CEng. Would this contingency demand a masters qualification.
I have already completed a structured training year ( and form XIT) and I should just about log three years experience before 2004.
If anyone has other hints as to what activities would improve my application form when the time comes, please offer me your thoughts.
As someone who has been through the mill I can add a little about my experiences of the Interview and what is looked for.
Being a Chartered Engineer is a respected position and one that carries with it responsibility and recognition. To become Chartered you have to display amongst other things competency in engineering, a professional manner and responsibility of action.
So, what does this mean.
Firstly you have to display that you understand the field of engineering you work in. It is not likely that you will be asked detailed indepth technical questions at the interview. The interviewers will more than likely have a passing interest in your field and will be curious to hear you views and experiences.
Secondly you have to display a professional manner. This is because, as a Chartered Engineer, you will be representing the Engineering Profession in your actions and words. A strong engineering profession can only help make the Chartered Engineer more respected and visa versa.
Finally, and this was the real clincher for me, you have do demonstrate responsibility of action. This means that the job you have been doing and claiming responsible experience for does require a Chartered Engineer to complete. If you do not make any decisions, just follow instructions and do not have to take responsibility for your actions then you are not getting the experiences to justify Chartership.
During my responsible experience activities I demonstrated that I had to make engineering, managerial and financial decisions in my day to day job. I was responsible for these decisions and there was no one else to make them for me. Hence the responsibility going with the job. This was recognised by the interviewers and I believe helped me clinch my Chartership.
One other point that may have helped was that I was an active member within the IEE. I had sat on my local Younger Member Section and progressed onto the Younger Members Board. I was giving something back to the profession and not just taking. Worth bearing in mind.
Hope this helps. Feel free to ask for any more detail.
I am a student following a B-eng in aerospace at Kingston, there is a possibility for me to do a charter that is I have completed one year and that can be transformed into C-eng and apron completion of 4 years I will automatically become a charted engineer is that justified since a charter requires experience
