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
Yes the IEA Accords are for the education accreditation purpose and I fully agreed with you.
Apart from the Accords, in IEA there are also 4 Agreements as below:
IPEA – International Professional Engineer Agreement
APEC – Professional Engineer for APEC Country
IETA – International Engineering Technologist Agreement
AIET – Agreement of International Engineering Technicians
If we look into IETA, It is a “Substantial Equivalency of Standards Establishing the Competency for Practicing Engineering Technologist.” Quote from IEA website.
And ECUK is one of the member for this IETA using their IEng as the benchmark for IntET registration. You may agued that the IEng is a unique PE qualification in UK (Which I hope this is a fact but it is not). In the eye of the IEA and the rest of the world Engineering Institution IEng is just an Engineering Technologist title. It never makes it to the Professional Engineer status although its used Engineer word.
Suprisingly US is no part of this agreement and because of that US have their own right and way to determine their Technologist requirement/registration/assessment.
Ya...this world is really complicated for such IEng title. I think the best way is still to rename IEng to Technologist title to make it a straigh forward title. I do hope IET and ECUK can read this forum and bring the issue to the top management radar. But still like I said for the renaming proposal to be bring to EC table is still far far away.
Something need to be done for the title name or else it will be always be confusion for engineering practictioner for their professional registration.
Moshe,
By the way Science Council UK have 4 level of registrations:
Yes the IEA Accords are for the education accreditation purpose and I fully agreed with you.
Apart from the Accords, in IEA there are also 4 Agreements as below:
IPEA – International Professional Engineer Agreement
APEC – Professional Engineer for APEC Country
IETA – International Engineering Technologist Agreement
AIET – Agreement of International Engineering Technicians
If we look into IETA, It is a “Substantial Equivalency of Standards Establishing the Competency for Practicing Engineering Technologist.” Quote from IEA website.
And ECUK is one of the member for this IETA using their IEng as the benchmark for IntET registration. You may agued that the IEng is a unique PE qualification in UK (Which I hope this is a fact but it is not). In the eye of the IEA and the rest of the world Engineering Institution IEng is just an Engineering Technologist title. It never makes it to the Professional Engineer status although its used Engineer word.
Suprisingly US is no part of this agreement and because of that US have their own right and way to determine their Technologist requirement/registration/assessment.
Ya...this world is really complicated for such IEng title. I think the best way is still to rename IEng to Technologist title to make it a straigh forward title. I do hope IET and ECUK can read this forum and bring the issue to the top management radar. But still like I said for the renaming proposal to be bring to EC table is still far far away.
Something need to be done for the title name or else it will be always be confusion for engineering practictioner for their professional registration.
Moshe,
By the way Science Council UK have 4 level of registrations:
