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Have Faith in the IET

Paul Meenan
So there, I said it.


Over the years I have been doubtfull as to the direction and culture at the IET. 


I started life as a sparky from Tottenham, I was placed straight into the managment of jobs and worked my way up the ladder as you do...


I watched updates to the wiring regulations change for what is seen by a majority (of the south east of the UKs shop floor sparks) as not for the betterment of the trade and devaluing an industry.


I joined the IET over 10 years ago as a member and started filling in the forms for IEng. Jobs being what they are nowadays (fire fighting poor design and programmes) I never got round to finishing it, I never had a mentor either, I am, and was deemed too controversial to support I suppose. But needed by employers to fix/solve problems .


Still this week I just got my confimation of CEng status....(yes yes yes yes) after the hardest form filling and amazing interview ever. The best part if I have no degree, no HNC/HND just 20 years EXPERIENCE!


Am I proud hell yeah, was it worth it, hell yeah, what will I do next? well I want to inspire kids from council estate that they too can break down the nay sayers and attain the highest level of their trade, I speak regulary at technical seminars and industry conferences and want to give back.....


That what the IET has given me the confidence, ability and gaul I never knew I had in me.. I am hoping theywill let me now be an ENG Tech assessor and a PRA / PRI if they will have me... and yes I have every confidence that eventually (and it is happening now) they will see the damage done to the trade by last few ammednments to BS 7671 and install a committe of non-commercially influenced shop floor representatives to direct it to the land of common sense. 


The interviewers were great and office support fantastic...


So the mesage is get involved and feed back in constructive if not direct way, and have faith in the IET.
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    Hubert,


    Your case and others shown on these blogs, only shows the arrogance and incompetence of these back room lawyers (engineers) that we have at IET.


    They have chased out the generalist and IEng PEs. 


     


    There are not many specialist engineers that are not IT or electrical based that are left in our PEI; as for true generalists, they are few and far between.


     


    What we have is the power syndrome where engineers that can not do real engineering get onto committees and other no productive organisations to appease their frustration and to dominate. The CEO of IMech E was the Rolls Royce pension manager. our has a MBA.


     


    PEIs should be to promote the profession, and communicate our knowledge to other engineering specialists.


    Is IET now a video games club run by MBAs who are out of touch with reality and were never engineers.


     


    Look what happened in France this week-end, a young man with no experience has exploded the Napoleonic political system, wanting to save his country, he has based his camaign on apprenticeship, education, engineering and sound global commerce.


    ECUK has now declared that UK PEs with BSc  (IEng can have access to europe engineering via FEANI IEng - the UK PEIs, IET included, banned IEng from FEANI, calling for CEng only. 


    I have questioned ECUK and IET, the rules have changed.


     


    I personnaly think that the UK will follow the French example and soon PE registration, the raison d'ëtre of PEIs and  the ECUK will all change for the better. 


    The UK Gov is pushing for apprenticeships at all levels. The UK will have elections, big changes are to come.


     


    Now for those incumbent assessors. 


    we should enlighten them on the second oldest profession. Water distribution and its conveyors.


     


    First tip mind your attributes. 


     


    On the French EPR that I analysed, I found 87 attributes that control the pipework design, the first being temperature and then pressure.


     


    The pipework system is the application of the process.


    Process engineers can not engineer pressure vessels or pipework unless they have made further studies.


     


    So it is the Pipework Engineer that is responsible for a safe refinery, water distribution system, or nuclear reactor. 


    Not electricals, not ITs.


     


    The pipework is supported, the supports are encased in the structure or civil engineering.


    The supports are structures and a complex engineering analysis has to be made, helped by codes.


    All of the pipework design is governed by codes so this makes it primarily IEng work.


    The supports house pipe clamps - fixed, sliding or flexible.


    Pipe work is live, it expands, it twists, it vibrates, it can be affected by wind, snow, rain, earthquakes and the sun; this is governed by codes.


    Pipe work has to be protected, isolated, painted or not, it is subject to internal and external corrossion.


    Pipes are made from materials which are chosen according to the process, plastic, fibre, white steel, carbon steel, non-ferrous,  etc.


    Pipes can be enearthed, under water, etc, etc, 


     


    What on earth has a non pipework or non process engineer have to do with assessing your competences.


     


    I believe that you have made accademic studies, are these arrogant assessors actually stating that they are more knowledgable than your accademic professors and examiners? We need to educate our assessors, what better than a PEI.


     


    We do not need assessors to be registered engineers.


     


    Change will come.


     


    Do not give up, complain, and keep on learning.


     


          What do we need from a PEI.


          Is IET just Electrical - IT ?


     


    John Gowman BA MIET

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