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
In my opinion, I don’t think IEng is a unique qualification for PE, if not IEng can apply for International Register Professional Engineer (IntPE) which they cannot. IEng only allow to apply for International Register Engineering Technologist (IntET) which clearly shown that IEng is an Engineering Technologist.
On the academic side, Washington Accord only accredited 4 years Engineering Degree. That’s why in UK if you want to apply CEng, standard academic route is you need to have 4 years study either by accredited MEng (4 years) or accredited BEng(Hons) (3 years) + MSc (1 year). Most of the country under WA have 4 years BEng(Hons) programme except for UK which is 3 years. All country under WA like Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, US and ect will only accept 4 years study degree for their Professional Engineer assessment/registration. Otherwise 3 years study like UK degree will fall straight to Technologist registration category. (We are discussing normal/standard route, not special case or mature route)
The idea to change IEng name to Technologist I think is still very blur in future which I don’t see any action or direction from ECUK to address it. I very much like this idea if I have the oppurnity I would like to proposed IEng to change to CEngT - Charterd Engineering Technologist.
Like I said before we need to brainstorm idea/way forward to make IEng more attractive and worth applying and add value to a person which the top management of IET and ECUK can pick up from this forum for future implementation. And the action has to be practical which can apply to all PEI not just in IET. If possible, the value added not only for UK but also outside UK register member if possible.
In my opinion, I don’t think IEng is a unique qualification for PE, if not IEng can apply for International Register Professional Engineer (IntPE) which they cannot. IEng only allow to apply for International Register Engineering Technologist (IntET) which clearly shown that IEng is an Engineering Technologist.
On the academic side, Washington Accord only accredited 4 years Engineering Degree. That’s why in UK if you want to apply CEng, standard academic route is you need to have 4 years study either by accredited MEng (4 years) or accredited BEng(Hons) (3 years) + MSc (1 year). Most of the country under WA have 4 years BEng(Hons) programme except for UK which is 3 years. All country under WA like Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, US and ect will only accept 4 years study degree for their Professional Engineer assessment/registration. Otherwise 3 years study like UK degree will fall straight to Technologist registration category. (We are discussing normal/standard route, not special case or mature route)
The idea to change IEng name to Technologist I think is still very blur in future which I don’t see any action or direction from ECUK to address it. I very much like this idea if I have the oppurnity I would like to proposed IEng to change to CEngT - Charterd Engineering Technologist.
Like I said before we need to brainstorm idea/way forward to make IEng more attractive and worth applying and add value to a person which the top management of IET and ECUK can pick up from this forum for future implementation. And the action has to be practical which can apply to all PEI not just in IET. If possible, the value added not only for UK but also outside UK register member if possible.
