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Is it possible to remain a CEng if IET membership is ended?

Chris Kessell
As the title - I'm sure the answer is written down somewhere but I can't find it. 


I've been both CEng and MIET/MIEE for 20+ years, but I'm tempted not to renew my IET membership any longer.  Does anyone know if it's possible to pay the CEng annual fee direct to the Engineering Council?


Thanks.

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    Yung Lai:

    I don’t quite understand why one don’t want to pay or renew the membership fee to an engineering institute.

     




    Hi,

    We don't know why the original poster wanted to know, and that's fine - these forums are open to questions being asked. But a search of these forums will show that there are members who are unhappy with various aspects of the IET, which range from extremes of not feeling they get value for money through to actively disagreeing with IET policies and not wishing to be associated with them. (And, of course, some people simply need to keep the cost down to manage their budgets.)


    Personally my feelings are:


    1. Compared to other professional fields (medicine, law, accountancy) the total cost is cheap. Maybe that's why the services are not being delivered that some members want, we are getting what we pay for!

    • If I was unhappy with how the IET was run I would stand for council to try to change it rather than leave.


    But I have to admit that I am biased as I have never had to pay my fees myself (my employers have always paid them). Certainly if I did have to pay them myself I would be thinking hard about whether they offer useful value to me, and probably finding any way possible to reduce them. Just as, now that I have to pay my own CMgr fees, I pay them through the IET because it is cheaper.


    So I can certainly see multiple reasons why anyone would question paying IET on top of EC fees. And actually if you are CEng then you should be questioning all business costs and value, it's part of having a wider view beyond pure technical matters. But equally, I completely agree with you that we need to think in addition about the wider value that the IET offers to the engineering community, and whether we want to support that; again, that falls into the "E" section of the CEng competences.


    Interesting post, thank you.


    Thanks,


    Andy

     

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    Yung Lai:

    I don’t quite understand why one don’t want to pay or renew the membership fee to an engineering institute.

     




    Hi,

    We don't know why the original poster wanted to know, and that's fine - these forums are open to questions being asked. But a search of these forums will show that there are members who are unhappy with various aspects of the IET, which range from extremes of not feeling they get value for money through to actively disagreeing with IET policies and not wishing to be associated with them. (And, of course, some people simply need to keep the cost down to manage their budgets.)


    Personally my feelings are:


    1. Compared to other professional fields (medicine, law, accountancy) the total cost is cheap. Maybe that's why the services are not being delivered that some members want, we are getting what we pay for!

    • If I was unhappy with how the IET was run I would stand for council to try to change it rather than leave.


    But I have to admit that I am biased as I have never had to pay my fees myself (my employers have always paid them). Certainly if I did have to pay them myself I would be thinking hard about whether they offer useful value to me, and probably finding any way possible to reduce them. Just as, now that I have to pay my own CMgr fees, I pay them through the IET because it is cheaper.


    So I can certainly see multiple reasons why anyone would question paying IET on top of EC fees. And actually if you are CEng then you should be questioning all business costs and value, it's part of having a wider view beyond pure technical matters. But equally, I completely agree with you that we need to think in addition about the wider value that the IET offers to the engineering community, and whether we want to support that; again, that falls into the "E" section of the CEng competences.


    Interesting post, thank you.


    Thanks,


    Andy

     

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