Alan Foxall:
Mark
Eur Ing is a FEANI registration which is recognized in most of Europe and internationally. FEANI is a federation of professional that unites national engineering associations from 34 European countries. So at face value the title of Eur Ing is more relevant than CEng in Europe.
My concern is at that if we leave Europe and become a third country our professional status will no longer be recognized in the short term. It is bad enough that within the UK the term Engineer is not legally recognized (unlike architects, barristers etc.,) without losing what the little professional dignity we have left
There's an interesting 'benefit' of having the EUR ING title, in that you are allowed to put it as part of your official name in a UK passport. This document sets out what titles are permissible, and the relevant sections read:
Alan Foxall:
Mark
Eur Ing is a FEANI registration which is recognized in most of Europe and internationally. FEANI is a federation of professional that unites national engineering associations from 34 European countries. So at face value the title of Eur Ing is more relevant than CEng in Europe.
My concern is at that if we leave Europe and become a third country our professional status will no longer be recognized in the short term. It is bad enough that within the UK the term Engineer is not legally recognized (unlike architects, barristers etc.,) without losing what the little professional dignity we have left
There's an interesting 'benefit' of having the EUR ING title, in that you are allowed to put it as part of your official name in a UK passport. This document sets out what titles are permissible, and the relevant sections read:
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