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Have Faith in the IET

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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0 Former Community Member over 7 years ago

I have no faith in an institution that couldn't get competent engineers in my field to assess me properly during my interview. I was of the assumption this institute was multidisciplinary but it is just bias toward electrical engineering. I am an Asset Engineer with a bias toward the design and construction of water trunk and distribution mains. One of the PRI's was from the oil and gas industry the other a Civil engineer. The one from the oil and industry asked 95% of the questions while the engineer who was suppose to be the expert in my field could only muster one technical question about taking into account surge in pipe design. That is the least of it, he kept on sleeping off during my presentation and was only fully active towards the end of my interview. To even find these volunteers was a problem because of my field but then one of them had the gut to assess me when he was half asleep through my interview, eyes closed and head down on numerous occassions (hopefully caught on cctv). While his colleague did the best he could and made me feel comfortable, he engaged me and asked me questions but the person who was suppose confirm if i met competence A & B was disinterested, mentally exhausted and going in and out of sleep. He wasn't force to volunteer and this is career he and IET have messed with. I will continue reviewing my legal option but this is unacceptable and unfair, the three points Collin Seller highlighted would strengthed my application are in my application and were demonstrated verbally and presentation wise. Is it my fault one of my interviewers was in and out of sleep and the other struggled to understand what i meant by structurally designing a pipe against ovalisation and hoops stresses in line with BS EN 1295, i showed my calculation and explained the theory with referenece to relevant code of practices and now they say i didn't, how?
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0 Former Community Member over 7 years ago

I have no faith in an institution that couldn't get competent engineers in my field to assess me properly during my interview. I was of the assumption this institute was multidisciplinary but it is just bias toward electrical engineering. I am an Asset Engineer with a bias toward the design and construction of water trunk and distribution mains. One of the PRI's was from the oil and gas industry the other a Civil engineer. The one from the oil and industry asked 95% of the questions while the engineer who was suppose to be the expert in my field could only muster one technical question about taking into account surge in pipe design. That is the least of it, he kept on sleeping off during my presentation and was only fully active towards the end of my interview. To even find these volunteers was a problem because of my field but then one of them had the gut to assess me when he was half asleep through my interview, eyes closed and head down on numerous occassions (hopefully caught on cctv). While his colleague did the best he could and made me feel comfortable, he engaged me and asked me questions but the person who was suppose confirm if i met competence A & B was disinterested, mentally exhausted and going in and out of sleep. He wasn't force to volunteer and this is career he and IET have messed with. I will continue reviewing my legal option but this is unacceptable and unfair, the three points Collin Seller highlighted would strengthed my application are in my application and were demonstrated verbally and presentation wise. Is it my fault one of my interviewers was in and out of sleep and the other struggled to understand what i meant by structurally designing a pipe against ovalisation and hoops stresses in line with BS EN 1295, i showed my calculation and explained the theory with referenece to relevant code of practices and now they say i didn't, how?
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