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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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    Wow, have they actually set the target of 4 years?


    I'd expect that very few people actually do it within 4 years, I believe that it usually takes considerably longer (although I've had young graduates within my company who had the expectation that they could do it in 6 months!).


    You need to prove that you have training to masters level, that can't be done in parallel with demonstrating the competencies.    I would expect that would take you a year or two at least.  For the competencies you need to get opportunities within your employer to demonstrate those competencies (although volunteering on IET committees is useful too).
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    Wow, have they actually set the target of 4 years?


    I'd expect that very few people actually do it within 4 years, I believe that it usually takes considerably longer (although I've had young graduates within my company who had the expectation that they could do it in 6 months!).


    You need to prove that you have training to masters level, that can't be done in parallel with demonstrating the competencies.    I would expect that would take you a year or two at least.  For the competencies you need to get opportunities within your employer to demonstrate those competencies (although volunteering on IET committees is useful too).
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