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Youngest Chartered Engineers

Mark Tickner
Having received the latest copy of Member News, I noted that there was an article about the new youngest CEng.  Now, obviously it isn’t a race to get CEng and it doesn’t really matter at what age you achieve it.


But it did tweak my interest to wonder what the ages (not names, let’s keep some privacy) of the, say, 16 youngest people to achieve CEng was.  Assuming the IET kept that type of information.  I don’t suppose that this information is available?


I’d imagine it would be a challenge to get the youngest age that much more under 26.  If a 3 year BEng can be compressed to 2 years, then possibly a MEng can be compressed down to 3.  Assuming a compressed degree could achieve accreditation then that might lower it another year.  However, the competences take as long as they take and it’s about being in the right place and grabbing the right opportunities.
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    Engineering is an oddity when it comes to professional registration.


    Most professions have a well-defined path to registration.  It will probably combine a mixture of an academic course and structured on-the-job training.  These could be sequential or mixed together.


    Engineering has BEng and MEng degrees, but then it stops.  People go out into the world of industry and start doing stuff.  They get whatever training their employer is willing to pay for.  So instead of structured training, we get UKSpec, which essentially says that you're qualified to be a Chartered Engineer once you are already doing the things that Chartered Engineers do.  That might be within 5 years of graduating, or it might be never.  And if you are already doing the things that Chartered Engineers do, then actually applying for it is just an excuse to get a "badge" - it doesn't actually allow you to do anything you weren't already doing.


    Thinking about it, a similar thing goes for management.  There is such a thing as a Chartered Manager, but I wonder what proportion of managers ever bother to apply.
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    Engineering is an oddity when it comes to professional registration.


    Most professions have a well-defined path to registration.  It will probably combine a mixture of an academic course and structured on-the-job training.  These could be sequential or mixed together.


    Engineering has BEng and MEng degrees, but then it stops.  People go out into the world of industry and start doing stuff.  They get whatever training their employer is willing to pay for.  So instead of structured training, we get UKSpec, which essentially says that you're qualified to be a Chartered Engineer once you are already doing the things that Chartered Engineers do.  That might be within 5 years of graduating, or it might be never.  And if you are already doing the things that Chartered Engineers do, then actually applying for it is just an excuse to get a "badge" - it doesn't actually allow you to do anything you weren't already doing.


    Thinking about it, a similar thing goes for management.  There is such a thing as a Chartered Manager, but I wonder what proportion of managers ever bother to apply.
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