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Is IET suitable for Mechanical Engineers?

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I have a friend who has a BEng(Hons) and MSc in Mechanical Engineering.

I told him IET may suit him.

He told me IET is for Electrical Engineers.

I told him IET is Institution of Engineering and Technology, IET is multi-disciplines.

He still not believe it.

What should I tell him?
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    Dear Cheong Tsoi
    You have triggered a useful debate as your question arises every now and again - perhaps with every generation of students as they consider their future engineering careers.  Although everyone else on this thread has given you the answer, I would like to reinforce their messages by recalling why the IEE and IIE became the IET, 10 years ago in 2006.  I was on the IEE Board of Trustees at the time.

    The main driver for change was a realisation that, whilst engineering was studied at university along traditional single discipline lines (eg electrical engineering, electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, etc), once engineers worked in industry, projects involved multiple disciplines, requiring specialists from single disciplines to work together and, increasingly, for engineers to be skilled in more than one discipline.  At the time, IMechE and IIE shared this analysis and saw a need for the professional engineering institutions to change to meet the needs of engineers in this new multi-disciplinary work environment.  The formation of the IET (originally intended to combine the IEE, IMechE and IIE) included a change of name to reflect this multi-disciplinary service.  Although IMechE declined to complete the merger, the IEE and IIE believed in the new vision and the IET was born.


    Whilst the name, IET, does not specify electrical or electronic engineering, those disciplines remain at the heart of our membership, but, reflecting the purpose of the IET, increasingly our members have much wider backgrounds and roles in industry and academia.  The IET is flexible and evolves to meet the needs of our members, and the society in which we all work, so mechanical, chemical, bio, nano-, materials, nuclear, civil, structural, railway engineers are all welcome!


    Today, there is a growing number of multi-disciplinary undergraduate engineering courses.  One, near me, at Bath University is the Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering course which is, I think, proving more popular than their single discipline courses.


    So, advise your friend that the IET can be his professional home for life and, by getting involved, he can help the IET to evolve to meet changing needs.

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    Dear Cheong Tsoi
    You have triggered a useful debate as your question arises every now and again - perhaps with every generation of students as they consider their future engineering careers.  Although everyone else on this thread has given you the answer, I would like to reinforce their messages by recalling why the IEE and IIE became the IET, 10 years ago in 2006.  I was on the IEE Board of Trustees at the time.

    The main driver for change was a realisation that, whilst engineering was studied at university along traditional single discipline lines (eg electrical engineering, electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, etc), once engineers worked in industry, projects involved multiple disciplines, requiring specialists from single disciplines to work together and, increasingly, for engineers to be skilled in more than one discipline.  At the time, IMechE and IIE shared this analysis and saw a need for the professional engineering institutions to change to meet the needs of engineers in this new multi-disciplinary work environment.  The formation of the IET (originally intended to combine the IEE, IMechE and IIE) included a change of name to reflect this multi-disciplinary service.  Although IMechE declined to complete the merger, the IEE and IIE believed in the new vision and the IET was born.


    Whilst the name, IET, does not specify electrical or electronic engineering, those disciplines remain at the heart of our membership, but, reflecting the purpose of the IET, increasingly our members have much wider backgrounds and roles in industry and academia.  The IET is flexible and evolves to meet the needs of our members, and the society in which we all work, so mechanical, chemical, bio, nano-, materials, nuclear, civil, structural, railway engineers are all welcome!


    Today, there is a growing number of multi-disciplinary undergraduate engineering courses.  One, near me, at Bath University is the Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering course which is, I think, proving more popular than their single discipline courses.


    So, advise your friend that the IET can be his professional home for life and, by getting involved, he can help the IET to evolve to meet changing needs.

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