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U.K. ENGINEERING 2016 REPORT

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​I have noted in another discussion, several comments of my own, but there seems to be a lack of interest or it takes too long to read and digest the report.

​Apart from Roy's original comments and direction to be able to read the report, it would be great to find out if IMechE, ICE and the IET have had any official comments on the report and if not, when can we expect any.?


​Daniel


P.S. Just had to get away from CEng v IEng status discussion.
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    Andy, I would agree with your view that IEng and Engtech should not be merged if I thought that IEng would be promoted. History has shown us that it will not. You suggest 'find out why people aren't applying for IEng and EngTech, and then decide what to do about it'. There was an IEng review a few years back where the Engineering Council commissioned an independent report looking into why people were not applying for IEng, the main recommendation was that IEng should have some distinctive elements to it. i.e not just watered down CEng competencies. The Engineering Council ignored this advice and when UKSpec was updated with the competencies of IEng were devalued in comparison to CEng.  The IET, to their credit, opposed many of the changes but in the end were ignored. It seemed that a review in to how IEng could be 'invigorated' resulted in the exact opposite. In terms of any current initiatives to promote IEng, today is deadline for nominations for the Baroness Platt of Writtle IEng Award. The previous winners have all been very impressive engineers, but I can't see where the link to IEng is, as the main judging criteria appears to be totally aligned to CEng competencies. 


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    Andy, I would agree with your view that IEng and Engtech should not be merged if I thought that IEng would be promoted. History has shown us that it will not. You suggest 'find out why people aren't applying for IEng and EngTech, and then decide what to do about it'. There was an IEng review a few years back where the Engineering Council commissioned an independent report looking into why people were not applying for IEng, the main recommendation was that IEng should have some distinctive elements to it. i.e not just watered down CEng competencies. The Engineering Council ignored this advice and when UKSpec was updated with the competencies of IEng were devalued in comparison to CEng.  The IET, to their credit, opposed many of the changes but in the end were ignored. It seemed that a review in to how IEng could be 'invigorated' resulted in the exact opposite. In terms of any current initiatives to promote IEng, today is deadline for nominations for the Baroness Platt of Writtle IEng Award. The previous winners have all been very impressive engineers, but I can't see where the link to IEng is, as the main judging criteria appears to be totally aligned to CEng competencies. 


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