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BEng to CEng registraiton

Ben Harvey
Hello,


I recently graduated from Lancaster University with a BEng honours degree while working full time as an electrical technician in 2016.


My experience from high school includes working as an electrician from 2007 to 2014 and an electrical technician from 2014 to 2016. I also worked as an electrician in Australia in 2017.


I recently joined a engineering consultancy in February 2018 and they are keen for their graduates to go for chartership after 4 years, however im worried i will not be able to achieve this goal as i am not educated up to MEng level. Would the next steps for me be applying for Engtech then IEng and finally CEng registration? It is really confusing as people are telling me i need to go back to University, but i cannot really afford this option while working full time also.


Any advice would be greatly appreciated with what steps to do next for me to achieve CEng status.


Thanks

Ben




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    Ben,

    To add on to the comments from the two Roys, who I have always found provide valuable advice, I would say that I also work in an engineering consultancy and have found a similar misconception regarding "no Masters = no CEng". Where I am it is certainly driven by experience of IMechE, and not even IMechE of today but IMechE of perhaps ten years ago, and my understanding is ICE is even more hidebound. I was told that in the IET the figure is 68% of CEng awards are to engineers without a Masters degree (though unfortunately I can't remember where I heard that so can't back it up), so don't worry on that score. If you set out to do your job to the best of your ability (hopefully enjoying it along the way) then everything else will probably fall into place. The only other advice I will offer is to suggest you get involved in the IET at a local level, attending meetings, etc.  This advice is partly as such activity will help in an application for registration in showing CPD, but mainly as it gets you into contact with other engineers in other areas and gives you a more rounded appreciation of the profession.

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    Ben,

    To add on to the comments from the two Roys, who I have always found provide valuable advice, I would say that I also work in an engineering consultancy and have found a similar misconception regarding "no Masters = no CEng". Where I am it is certainly driven by experience of IMechE, and not even IMechE of today but IMechE of perhaps ten years ago, and my understanding is ICE is even more hidebound. I was told that in the IET the figure is 68% of CEng awards are to engineers without a Masters degree (though unfortunately I can't remember where I heard that so can't back it up), so don't worry on that score. If you set out to do your job to the best of your ability (hopefully enjoying it along the way) then everything else will probably fall into place. The only other advice I will offer is to suggest you get involved in the IET at a local level, attending meetings, etc.  This advice is partly as such activity will help in an application for registration in showing CPD, but mainly as it gets you into contact with other engineers in other areas and gives you a more rounded appreciation of the profession.

    Alasdair
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