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

Well there has been some great response to this.  I was one who originally raised the retired status and retaining CEng at mininal cost to the EC and IET (letter published etc. in IET News).  For me (and others at the time) the benefits for both organisations, the public awareness of professional engineering registration and hopefully the good we and the good new young enginners will hopefully do for society were undeniable.  A  *fully* retired engineer not using IET assets/facilities, consuming hard copy magazines, etc. is just a rank and number kept on file. 


Other professions, like the forces allow ranks of Captain (Army) and above to still use the title Captain Joe Blogs.  In normal life most just go by Joe Blogs but when they talk to schools, or give lectures or just more generally address the public they use and get addressed as Captain Joe Blogs.  This signifies the "been there, done that, survived that" and in general terms just raises the professions status and if nothing else becomes a talking point from which a lot more interest/good can flow.  I envisaged the same sort of benefits to be gained from some form of Chartered Engineer retired status.   


I did then and still do now believe both the EC and all the professional engineering bodies are losing out on something that could do long term good for minimal cost. 

 

Probably time to "move on" on this particual thread as the original question has been answered, which without the further detail supporting the question I personally felt there was some similarity/quest to the cost of maintinging CEng in retirement.  Not all retired, previoulsy CEng/IET can justify the expense so they end up "walking away" which is so sad after a long life in engineering and paying all those fees over 30+ / 40+ years.

Well there has been some great response to this.  I was one who originally raised the retired status and retaining CEng at mininal cost to the EC and IET (letter published etc. in IET News).  For me (and others at the time) the benefits for both organisations, the public awareness of professional engineering registration and hopefully the good we and the good new young enginners will hopefully do for society were undeniable.  A  *fully* retired engineer not using IET assets/facilities, consuming hard copy magazines, etc. is just a rank and number kept on file. 


Other professions, like the forces allow ranks of Captain (Army) and above to still use the title Captain Joe Blogs.  In normal life most just go by Joe Blogs but when they talk to schools, or give lectures or just more generally address the public they use and get addressed as Captain Joe Blogs.  This signifies the "been there, done that, survived that" and in general terms just raises the professions status and if nothing else becomes a talking point from which a lot more interest/good can flow.  I envisaged the same sort of benefits to be gained from some form of Chartered Engineer retired status.   


I did then and still do now believe both the EC and all the professional engineering bodies are losing out on something that could do long term good for minimal cost. 

 

Probably time to "move on" on this particual thread as the original question has been answered, which without the further detail supporting the question I personally felt there was some similarity/quest to the cost of maintinging CEng in retirement.  Not all retired, previoulsy CEng/IET can justify the expense so they end up "walking away" which is so sad after a long life in engineering and paying all those fees over 30+ / 40+ years.