Honorary Fellowship

Roy,

Thank you for your reply.

There were three things that led me to make my proposal: you previously expressed sometime ago - on another thread - a desire for TMIET members to move across to MIET, as recognition of their contribution to the industry. Secondly, a not recent BoT meeting (forgot which one) also indicated the same interest, though they scrapped the idea - possibly due to lack of willingness amongst MIET members? I was against it because I wanted to perserve MIET for Graduate level engineers. Thirdly, the recent HonFIET awarded to Will.I.Am.

My view is that if Will.I.Am can achieve recognition, then other celebs - with similar interests in E&T could as well. This can only happen because technology - previously available only in research labs - is becoming accessible to the wider public - Smartphone being the example.

So my argument is, why not recognise IET members - mainly MIET and TMIET - in the same way that Will.I.Am has been? That without scientists, engineers and technicians there to make these advance technological gadgets available to the public, celebs like Will.I.Am, wouldn't be here to use and promote E&T; Therefore IET members too should benefit from enhanced membership credentials, in recognition of their contribution to E&T.

In fact if the IET wanted to take it to the next level, why not create two presidents of the IET? You have the official President, and then you have the Honorary President - say elected for one year - who would represent the global face of the IET, promoting the IET and its interest in E&T around the world.

Now that would controversal!!

Roy,

Thank you for your reply.

There were three things that led me to make my proposal: you previously expressed sometime ago - on another thread - a desire for TMIET members to move across to MIET, as recognition of their contribution to the industry. Secondly, a not recent BoT meeting (forgot which one) also indicated the same interest, though they scrapped the idea - possibly due to lack of willingness amongst MIET members? I was against it because I wanted to perserve MIET for Graduate level engineers. Thirdly, the recent HonFIET awarded to Will.I.Am.

My view is that if Will.I.Am can achieve recognition, then other celebs - with similar interests in E&T could as well. This can only happen because technology - previously available only in research labs - is becoming accessible to the wider public - Smartphone being the example.

So my argument is, why not recognise IET members - mainly MIET and TMIET - in the same way that Will.I.Am has been? That without scientists, engineers and technicians there to make these advance technological gadgets available to the public, celebs like Will.I.Am, wouldn't be here to use and promote E&T; Therefore IET members too should benefit from enhanced membership credentials, in recognition of their contribution to E&T.

In fact if the IET wanted to take it to the next level, why not create two presidents of the IET? You have the official President, and then you have the Honorary President - say elected for one year - who would represent the global face of the IET, promoting the IET and its interest in E&T around the world.

Now that would controversal!!