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Professional Engineering MSc

Scott Stewart
I have recently had my IEng PRI and while I wait for the Eng Council decision, I have been looking for a distance learning masters. I have seen that a number of universities are offering Professional Engineering MSc that provide a pre-agreed path to CEng. Does anyone know anything about this?

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Scott
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    Hi Ian,


    I can only suggest that if anyone feels they are using "Masters" level knowledge (which if they are at a senior engineering level they should be) and have been turned down on UK&U then they query this through their PRA or directly. Obviously no-one here can comment on individual cases.


    In general the cases I've seen (and I suspect this is pretty much the rule) where lack of use of Masters level knowledge has been queried are where candidates are in roles which may have significant project responsibility, but where they are not having to make significant technical judgements. In which case having a Masters degree won't help - if you have the knowledge  but your job doesn't require you to use it then you still won't meet A&B criteria.


    Where I can see a CEng being turned down on education / learning / training grounds is where it is felt that your role requires you to make engineering judgements, but you don't actually seem to have sufficient knowledge to make those judgements. In principle I'd hope we'd all agree that's reasonable!


    I don't know what percentage of succesful CEng applicants have Masters degrees, maybe if Roy Bowdler's reading this he may have some figures? My bet for UK applicants is that it's pretty low (if I was going to guess - and it would be a guess - I'd say 10-20% ?), but I may be out of date. It would be very interesting to know.


    Thanks,


    Andy


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    Hi Ian,


    I can only suggest that if anyone feels they are using "Masters" level knowledge (which if they are at a senior engineering level they should be) and have been turned down on UK&U then they query this through their PRA or directly. Obviously no-one here can comment on individual cases.


    In general the cases I've seen (and I suspect this is pretty much the rule) where lack of use of Masters level knowledge has been queried are where candidates are in roles which may have significant project responsibility, but where they are not having to make significant technical judgements. In which case having a Masters degree won't help - if you have the knowledge  but your job doesn't require you to use it then you still won't meet A&B criteria.


    Where I can see a CEng being turned down on education / learning / training grounds is where it is felt that your role requires you to make engineering judgements, but you don't actually seem to have sufficient knowledge to make those judgements. In principle I'd hope we'd all agree that's reasonable!


    I don't know what percentage of succesful CEng applicants have Masters degrees, maybe if Roy Bowdler's reading this he may have some figures? My bet for UK applicants is that it's pretty low (if I was going to guess - and it would be a guess - I'd say 10-20% ?), but I may be out of date. It would be very interesting to know.


    Thanks,


    Andy


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