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CEng Application - Anybody with RECENT experience of the whole process?

Jason Wong
I am hoping to be in a position to submit an application for CEng relatively soon (after many years of pondering about registering). I need to do a bit of further work on my application content following advice from a PRA and one of my friends who got registered as CEng within the last few years. Then I just need my supporters to review and support my application (this may take time depending on how busy they are).


While I do more work on my application and wait for supporters to do their parts... Are there any recently registered CEng people who don't mind sharing the experience of the whole process through the IET? Any tips and advice on any aspects of the process? From submitting the application form through to the interview and presentation.


Would also be interesting to hear from anybody who has had any problems with the process? What would you do differently (or the IET could do differently to help improve things)?


Thanks,


Jason.

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    I can see both sides of this discussion. Quite late on in my interview, one of the interviewers told me "you're in the wrong institution". This was a statement, not a question. Perhaps it was intended to give me an opportunity to justify myself. At the time, as far as I remember, I choked up. Was I supposed to disagree and provoke some kind of existential argument? I had thought I was there to elaborate on the evidence in my application and discuss my future career development.


    Both interviewers had seemed pretty unfamiliar with the detail of my application at various points. They may not have been aware that I was chair of an IET Technical Network, which might have validated my membership to some extent. As a fellow volunteer I had some sympathy for their position and still do.


    On reflection afterwards, I remain confused. On one hand, the interview was a success, so the system prevailed. On the other hand, maybe the system failed by enabling an interviewer with attitudes unfit for the modern IET to remain in such a position of power. A third option would be that the particular interviewer was correct in his view about me, but was argued out by the other panel members who were blinded by the brave new interdisciplinary world, which often seems so out of step with reality.


    All in all, my path to CEng was long, hard and costly. But I still urge anyone who aspires to full professional standing to work towards the registration category of your choice and not compromise on your goal. My present volunteering priority is in support of that aspiration.
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    I can see both sides of this discussion. Quite late on in my interview, one of the interviewers told me "you're in the wrong institution". This was a statement, not a question. Perhaps it was intended to give me an opportunity to justify myself. At the time, as far as I remember, I choked up. Was I supposed to disagree and provoke some kind of existential argument? I had thought I was there to elaborate on the evidence in my application and discuss my future career development.


    Both interviewers had seemed pretty unfamiliar with the detail of my application at various points. They may not have been aware that I was chair of an IET Technical Network, which might have validated my membership to some extent. As a fellow volunteer I had some sympathy for their position and still do.


    On reflection afterwards, I remain confused. On one hand, the interview was a success, so the system prevailed. On the other hand, maybe the system failed by enabling an interviewer with attitudes unfit for the modern IET to remain in such a position of power. A third option would be that the particular interviewer was correct in his view about me, but was argued out by the other panel members who were blinded by the brave new interdisciplinary world, which often seems so out of step with reality.


    All in all, my path to CEng was long, hard and costly. But I still urge anyone who aspires to full professional standing to work towards the registration category of your choice and not compromise on your goal. My present volunteering priority is in support of that aspiration.
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