What are the responsibilities of a CEng supporter?

Hi Richard


On the IET website there are all the forms to download associated with making your CEng application through the IET. They include a form which your supporters need to fill in and post back to the IET. It's a very straight forward process but your supporter for obvious reasons need to be a Chartered Engineers with the IET or another institution. Your supporter needs to know you well enough professionally to support your application. 


I have been through the process and also supported an applicant.


if you need further guidance let me know, I'm happy to assist.  


Hope this helps.

Your supporter should also read through your application and give comments, if any and you should make amendments before submission.

Hi Richard,


Just to add, if you are using IET Career Manger then the supporter verification is all done online, so you don't need to separately download the supporter reference forms.


Kind Regards,


Kathryn Bain

The one thing that I wold add here is that you should choose a supporter who knows you well and wishes to support your application!


From what I recall of the form (it was a few years back) it's completely confidential and the support has the opportunity at that point to state if you are ready for CEng or not.  Obviously you wouldn't malicously undermine someones application, that's unprofessional.  But if you did feel that someone wasn't ready but they pressed ahead anyway - then you would say so.


Of course if I felt that way I would (and have) say so directly to the candidate before they put the application in.

Thanks for all the replies and help! In response:

 

Hi Richard

On the IET website there are all the forms to download associated with making your CEng application through the IET. They include a form which your supporters need to fill in and post back to the IET. It's a very straight forward process but your supporter for obvious reasons need to be a Chartered Engineers with the IET or another institution. Your supporter needs to know you well enough professionally to support your application. 

I have been through the process and also supported an applicant.

if you need further guidance let me know, I'm happy to assist.  

Hope this helps.

I'm applying via the IET Career Manager portal so I never thought to download the paper-package. I've just downloaded the zip file to see what the supporter has to fill out, which is a big help! Am I right in thinking the online version would be exactly the same (but obviously digital)? Thanks, Kathryn, for the clarification too.

 

Your supporter should also read through your application and give comments, if any and you should make amendments before submission.

Thank you. I've got an IET professional registration advisor who will be going through my application as well.

 

The one thing that I wold add here is that you should choose a supporter who knows you well and wishes to support your application!

From what I recall of the form (it was a few years back) it's completely confidential and the support has the opportunity at that point to state if you are ready for CEng or not.  Obviously you wouldn't malicously undermine someones application, that's unprofessional.  But if you did feel that someone wasn't ready but they pressed ahead anyway - then you would say so.

Of course if I felt that way I would (and have) say so directly to the candidate before they put the application in.

The supporters I have in mind are my previous and current research advisors who know me/my work very well, as well as my PhD examiner. Two have professional registration (one CEng, one PE), however none of which are affiliated with the IET. I hope this wouldn't be seen as an issue.


Edit: Apparently quoting doesn't want to be friendly with me. Sorry for the formatting.

I am currently looking at applying for CEng myself so have not gone through the whole process... but here are my two cents...


With regard to requiring that supporters are CEng or equivalent, I have been told that this is not a strict requirement. It is preferable but not mandatory. Many of the organisations I have worked at did not have any CEng registered engineers (even though they were very experienced and very brilliant engineers). I have been informed that in that case then as long as your supporters know your work well and are of a senior position to you (e.g. your line manager) then that would be OK.


I would also point out that you may find it useful to request a professional registration advisor (PRA) from the IET. I have just sent a draft of my application information to my PRA for review and feedback. I want to make sure that I am ready and that my application is strong before I submit since I would not want to waste the application fee.


Best of luck to you.

Richard,


You are correct that the online process for supporter forms is exactly the same as the paper process, just online.  If you apply through Career Manager the online process requires the supporters to sign this off online in order to progress your application and submit it to the IET.  They will only have access to the relevant information in your application, so do ensure that all of this is included in the draft application.  


Regards,


Kathryn