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Honorary Fellowship

Mark Curtiz
That William Adams (a.k.a Will.i.am) was made an Honorary Fellow for his outstanding contributions to engineering is fantastic - it also intrigued me as to the process involved. Does anyone know?

And I also wondered why the process is not invoked more often to reflect the contribution of the many noteworthy individuals - for example people like Elon Musk whose contributions to engineering and technology are very visible and exceptionally impressive. Is there a nominations process?
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    Moshe, humanity cannot change the laws of nature, but it can change its own rules and regulations. Until Will.I.Am became HonFIET, this would have been unheard of. Normally EngTechs are awarded TMIET, but a few are MIET, because they were from pervious institutions that merged with the IIE and subsequently the IEE to form the IET. We were told by Andrew Wilson? many years ago that IEng members could not be made chartered, because the Privy council wanted to restrict this to graduate engineers only; today, anyone can apply for CEng without a degree, by demonstrating relevant competence. So how did the IET get past the Privy council's remit? Therefore it is perfectly possible to transfer MIET members across to Associate Fellowship (AFIET) and TMIET to MIET. The regulation - including that for EU, that you refer to can be amended to refer to AFIET; a new regulation for MIET can be created for 'Professional Technician' members, which would also be included at EU level. As they say "rules are there for the obedience of fools, and the guidance if wise men and women'. We are not the fools!!!
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    Moshe, humanity cannot change the laws of nature, but it can change its own rules and regulations. Until Will.I.Am became HonFIET, this would have been unheard of. Normally EngTechs are awarded TMIET, but a few are MIET, because they were from pervious institutions that merged with the IIE and subsequently the IEE to form the IET. We were told by Andrew Wilson? many years ago that IEng members could not be made chartered, because the Privy council wanted to restrict this to graduate engineers only; today, anyone can apply for CEng without a degree, by demonstrating relevant competence. So how did the IET get past the Privy council's remit? Therefore it is perfectly possible to transfer MIET members across to Associate Fellowship (AFIET) and TMIET to MIET. The regulation - including that for EU, that you refer to can be amended to refer to AFIET; a new regulation for MIET can be created for 'Professional Technician' members, which would also be included at EU level. As they say "rules are there for the obedience of fools, and the guidance if wise men and women'. We are not the fools!!!
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