Yes, I would agree with much of that but I decided to join in the game and take the 'light hearted' approach. Yes, judging historical figures against the current UKSpec requirements is both difficult and probably unfair as they should, by rights, be judged against the standards of the day. However I would also agree that achieving CEng is possibly more difficult now than it has ever been. I don't have a MEng but only a BEng, though I do have the comfort that having gained it over 30 years ago it does count for the current CEng requirements, but I would go further and say that if the current requirements had been in place 25 years ago when I had my PRI and got CEng it would have been a very different outcome.However I have confidence that if I was going for a PRI today I would have no problem justifying the competencies as they currently are, mainly due to the quarter of a century of extra experience and (CP) development.
Where the light hearted exercise above does benefit is that in looking at historical figures such as these (Turing, Tesla and Faraday - and possibly adding others such as Brunel) allows us to see if perhaps the Engineering Council have gone too far in some areas.
Yes, I would agree with much of that but I decided to join in the game and take the 'light hearted' approach. Yes, judging historical figures against the current UKSpec requirements is both difficult and probably unfair as they should, by rights, be judged against the standards of the day. However I would also agree that achieving CEng is possibly more difficult now than it has ever been. I don't have a MEng but only a BEng, though I do have the comfort that having gained it over 30 years ago it does count for the current CEng requirements, but I would go further and say that if the current requirements had been in place 25 years ago when I had my PRI and got CEng it would have been a very different outcome.However I have confidence that if I was going for a PRI today I would have no problem justifying the competencies as they currently are, mainly due to the quarter of a century of extra experience and (CP) development.
Where the light hearted exercise above does benefit is that in looking at historical figures such as these (Turing, Tesla and Faraday - and possibly adding others such as Brunel) allows us to see if perhaps the Engineering Council have gone too far in some areas.
