The number of newly registered incorporated engineers continues to decline. The strategy of the Engineering Council is clearly not aligned to supporting the engineering technologist professional. Given the governments commitment to technical education the IET should create their own professional register to provide a relevant standard. It is obvious the current UKSPEC standard lacks credibility in terms of the IEng grade
I think you are correct that those who have IEng should feel pride in the achivement. However I disagree with the assumption that IEng is widely accepted as a professional engineer. I was registered as a Technician Enginneer and then an Incorporated Engineer and during that time only once did I meet another IEng (he was the Superintendent of Shipping for Shell) . I'm not sure if there is some kind of inverse snobbery at play or a feeling that incorporated engineers are second best which stops a wider acceptance. Moshe listed a number of job adverts citing IEng, I don't think this indicates IEng is widely accepted. As I stated earlier, there are 5.7million employed in engineering related enterprises in the UK, one would expect to Goggle some job ads asking for IEng. If you could get 2000 google results that would be about 0.05% engineering workforce 'churn'. Also its interesting that the job ads ask for CEng/IEng, is there any difference between the two from the advertisers perspective?
I think you are correct that those who have IEng should feel pride in the achivement. However I disagree with the assumption that IEng is widely accepted as a professional engineer. I was registered as a Technician Enginneer and then an Incorporated Engineer and during that time only once did I meet another IEng (he was the Superintendent of Shipping for Shell) . I'm not sure if there is some kind of inverse snobbery at play or a feeling that incorporated engineers are second best which stops a wider acceptance. Moshe listed a number of job adverts citing IEng, I don't think this indicates IEng is widely accepted. As I stated earlier, there are 5.7million employed in engineering related enterprises in the UK, one would expect to Goggle some job ads asking for IEng. If you could get 2000 google results that would be about 0.05% engineering workforce 'churn'. Also its interesting that the job ads ask for CEng/IEng, is there any difference between the two from the advertisers perspective?
