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ARE CENG AND IENG EQUAL IN STATUS

Can we say that the CEng and IEng be considered equal titles in professional status or IEng is inferior than CEng.

As the Application Form for both CEng and IEng is same.

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0 K Samoei over 8 years ago

I will try to save all of us the trouble I went through in another long-running thread ( IEng discontinued )

IEng and CEng are not equal, otherwise there won't be need to have the two titles.

IEng is benchmarked at Bachelors (level 6) while CEng is benchmarked at Masters level (level 7). To demonstrate the respective level, one may opt to undertake EngC-accreditted BEng/ MSc/MEng course; or submit evidence of work-based learning to the required level.

Please note that if your degree is not accreditted, some PEIs may assess and recognise it as meeting the respective academic benchmark. Once that is done, and subject to your demonstration of required competence, your registration assessment may proceed as the standard route.

Now, if one considers the Washington, Sydney and Dublin accords; the IEA, and FEANI agreements, there are countries whose engineering programmes are benchmarked at 'their' bachelors level. South Africa is one such signatory. Hypothetically , a candidate with a BEng from SA would meet the academic benchmark for CEng through mutual recognition. Likewise someone with a FEANI recognised Bachelors course would be eligible for registration as EUR-ING. However, if your Bachelors (BSc/BEng) is from UK or assessed as equivalent by a UK PEI, you can only register as IEng. Someone talked about degree inflation...

According to the agreements, IEng = Engineering Technologist. EngC is a signatory to the agreements and IET has two representatives in the EngC.

Therefore it means that nothing will change in the foreseeable future, despite being informed in the previous thread that a Working Group was 'looking into it'.
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0 K Samoei over 8 years ago

I will try to save all of us the trouble I went through in another long-running thread ( IEng discontinued )

IEng and CEng are not equal, otherwise there won't be need to have the two titles.

IEng is benchmarked at Bachelors (level 6) while CEng is benchmarked at Masters level (level 7). To demonstrate the respective level, one may opt to undertake EngC-accreditted BEng/ MSc/MEng course; or submit evidence of work-based learning to the required level.

Please note that if your degree is not accreditted, some PEIs may assess and recognise it as meeting the respective academic benchmark. Once that is done, and subject to your demonstration of required competence, your registration assessment may proceed as the standard route.

Now, if one considers the Washington, Sydney and Dublin accords; the IEA, and FEANI agreements, there are countries whose engineering programmes are benchmarked at 'their' bachelors level. South Africa is one such signatory. Hypothetically , a candidate with a BEng from SA would meet the academic benchmark for CEng through mutual recognition. Likewise someone with a FEANI recognised Bachelors course would be eligible for registration as EUR-ING. However, if your Bachelors (BSc/BEng) is from UK or assessed as equivalent by a UK PEI, you can only register as IEng. Someone talked about degree inflation...

According to the agreements, IEng = Engineering Technologist. EngC is a signatory to the agreements and IET has two representatives in the EngC.

Therefore it means that nothing will change in the foreseeable future, despite being informed in the previous thread that a Working Group was 'looking into it'.
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