The IET is one of the world’s largest engineering institutions with Over 167,000 members in 127 countries. It is also the most multidisciplinary – to reflect the increasingly diverse nature of engineering in the 21st century.
The IET is working to engineer a better world by inspiring, informing and influencing our members, engineers and technicians, and all those who are touched by, or touch, the work of engineers.
What IET is offering is diversity beyond focus on a single field and discipline. While noting is wrong with concentration of other Institutions PEI's in single filed. and I can underrated how belonging to a single field PEI as home to Engineers of that discipline provides identity and a statement of being involved in your filed of Engineering yet some Engineers may want diversity.
I have multiple areas that interest me, diversity is important to me. This is Computing, Electronics, Environmental, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Also Engineering management etc. IET provides events and opportunity to be knothole in multiple areas.
IET provides an opportunity to network with Engineers from your field and multiple disciplines. It is easier for a person to switch the filed of employment when belonging to IET.
Lets say a Mechanical Engineer later in their career becomes Environmental Engineer, Now he/she is applying for a job while a member of Institution of Mechanical Engineers. This may create confusion, I think the hiring manager would like to see that the job applicant demonstrates interest in Environmental Science or Engineering and not limited to Mechanical Engineering.
In my case I have multiple membership, I'm MBCS CEng and MIET so I enjoy from both worlds even if there is a some redundancy.
why shouldn't we discuss other Disciplines like Civil, Computer etc.
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