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What is Fellowship?

Alex Barrett
I'm not sure which forum this belongs in, this seems to be the closest?


A question, what is Fellowship in the context of the IET? Is it the recognition by the profession of somebody who stands out in their field, their profession and in general as an engineer and character? Or is it just a "supersize" membership.

As the only route to Fellowship of the IET seems to be by applying on your own behalf, it looks like the latter. There doesn't seem to be any scope for recognising those engineers who really do stand out, but aren't self-seeking enough to look for recognition. I know personally some engineers who in my opinion are natural Fellows but would never put themselves forward for this recognition.
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    Ian, yes, it does help, and confirms that to become a Fellow you have to push for this recognition, regardless of what else you may have done that is worthy. Many of our more gifted and valuable engineers are not the sort of people who are inclined to do this. To my mind it does look rather too much like a variant of the registration process.
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    Ian, yes, it does help, and confirms that to become a Fellow you have to push for this recognition, regardless of what else you may have done that is worthy. Many of our more gifted and valuable engineers are not the sort of people who are inclined to do this. To my mind it does look rather too much like a variant of the registration process.
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