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Time to Knock IEng on the Head

Peter Miller
IEng registration in terminal decline
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    Roy Bowdler:

    In response to Mehmood; Can we please now respectfully retire the old war horse - I mean the IEng title not me wink. We can and should be doing better by our engineers currently at that (good) standard.  




    Well, if memory serves me correct, around 10 years ago? IEng members across all PEIs were invited to vote on the ECs list of suggested titles: CCE, IEng, ACEng, REng, Engineering Practitioner.


    I cannot remember if PEng was offered; but suffice to say CCE received the largest tally of votes (but nothing like 50%), followed closely by IEng, then ACEng and REng. The IET or EC should have a record of this.


    The problem with CCE (also referred to as CCEng) is that it's too similar to CEng and would confuse industry of the difference between them; ultimately resulting in IEng members being migrated to CEng. But that's not what is desired as IEng has a value different or complimentary to CEng. Likewise for PEng, as it's too close to US title, and might be seen as challenge to CEng.


    So the only remainig alternatives I can think of are: ACEng and REng. 


    I know the Science council's equivalent award to REng is RSci. Then there is ACEng which I put forward earlier.


    Is this the direction IEng members want to head? Bear in mind that 10 years ago a majority of IEng members of SOE preferred to retain IEng. Today they may have different views?

     

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    Roy Bowdler:

    In response to Mehmood; Can we please now respectfully retire the old war horse - I mean the IEng title not me wink. We can and should be doing better by our engineers currently at that (good) standard.  




    Well, if memory serves me correct, around 10 years ago? IEng members across all PEIs were invited to vote on the ECs list of suggested titles: CCE, IEng, ACEng, REng, Engineering Practitioner.


    I cannot remember if PEng was offered; but suffice to say CCE received the largest tally of votes (but nothing like 50%), followed closely by IEng, then ACEng and REng. The IET or EC should have a record of this.


    The problem with CCE (also referred to as CCEng) is that it's too similar to CEng and would confuse industry of the difference between them; ultimately resulting in IEng members being migrated to CEng. But that's not what is desired as IEng has a value different or complimentary to CEng. Likewise for PEng, as it's too close to US title, and might be seen as challenge to CEng.


    So the only remainig alternatives I can think of are: ACEng and REng. 


    I know the Science council's equivalent award to REng is RSci. Then there is ACEng which I put forward earlier.


    Is this the direction IEng members want to head? Bear in mind that 10 years ago a majority of IEng members of SOE preferred to retain IEng. Today they may have different views?

     

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