Rules and Guidelines
Want to participate in the discussions? Please read our Community Rules and Guidelines. Need some help? Visit Support and Answers.

  • State Not Answered
  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 250 replies
  • Subscribers 14 subscribers
  • Views 22454 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
You may also be interested in
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

ARE CENG AND IENG EQUAL IN STATUS

Nouman Abid Chuhan
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.
Parents
  • 0
    Andy,

    I couldn't agree more about everybody using 'status' in a different way.

    My take on this is they are equal in status if by status you mean 'value in what they show about the holder having been professionally recognised by his/her peers', but they are not equal in status if by status you mean the value that they confer to the holder.

    I consider them to be  equal in some respects (equal in status but showing different competences), but the problem is that the general perception is that CEng is 'above' IEng. Until recruiters and employers change their ways we are going to perpetuate the perception, since those applying for registration see the difference in the adverts. There are some jobs where you need IEng competencies that I have known some CEng people to lack (a small minority I admit) so employers asking for CEng sometimes do themselves a disservice.

    When advertising when I was recruiting i always had 'CEng or IEng or working towards this' but this does seem to be an exception (and I ignored what level they were at when comparing between candidates!).

    Alasdair Anderson (CEng FIET PRA)
Reply
  • 0
    Andy,

    I couldn't agree more about everybody using 'status' in a different way.

    My take on this is they are equal in status if by status you mean 'value in what they show about the holder having been professionally recognised by his/her peers', but they are not equal in status if by status you mean the value that they confer to the holder.

    I consider them to be  equal in some respects (equal in status but showing different competences), but the problem is that the general perception is that CEng is 'above' IEng. Until recruiters and employers change their ways we are going to perpetuate the perception, since those applying for registration see the difference in the adverts. There are some jobs where you need IEng competencies that I have known some CEng people to lack (a small minority I admit) so employers asking for CEng sometimes do themselves a disservice.

    When advertising when I was recruiting i always had 'CEng or IEng or working towards this' but this does seem to be an exception (and I ignored what level they were at when comparing between candidates!).

    Alasdair Anderson (CEng FIET PRA)
Children
No Data

Community Rules & Guidelines