A fair point Michael, but fairly reflective of the quality of argument prevalent in these forums at the time and a steep decline in new IEng registrations through the noughties.
I'll post something more in depth later, but many senior IEng were far more offended by Engineering Council's later actions to downgrade them than by this. I came close to resigning over it myself. To suggest that experienced IEng, some of who had managed CEng were no longer suitable to evaluate such practice having been long proven in doing so, was both insulting and to some professionally damaging. For example some IEng work as independent consultants (perhaps competing against a CEng) and the idea of a IEng senior manager (or military rank) was rendered untenable.
A fair point Michael, but fairly reflective of the quality of argument prevalent in these forums at the time and a steep decline in new IEng registrations through the noughties.
I'll post something more in depth later, but many senior IEng were far more offended by Engineering Council's later actions to downgrade them than by this. I came close to resigning over it myself. To suggest that experienced IEng, some of who had managed CEng were no longer suitable to evaluate such practice having been long proven in doing so, was both insulting and to some professionally damaging. For example some IEng work as independent consultants (perhaps competing against a CEng) and the idea of a IEng senior manager (or military rank) was rendered untenable.
