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Transfering from EngTech to IEng (With a BEng)

In need of some advice...

Following my placement year a university I successfully attained EngTech. I am now in full time engineering role following my graduation with a first class BEng degree.

It's my aspiration to move onto IEng "Naturally" as quoted from https://www.theiet.org/career/professional-registration/transferring-to-ceng-or-ieng/.

Is IEng something that I can apply for in the short term (Next 6 months), or is this something that I should be aiming for within the next couple of years.

P.s. Placement was a Quality Engineering role, I currently work in a graduate scheme so my current role changes every 4 months covering everything from Design, project management, commercial, etc...

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0 Roy Bowdler over 4 years ago

I would expect you to get quite mixed messages, depending on who you ask, so I suppose the obvious first port of call is your employer. I have recently seen a number of early career engineers with CEng accredited degrees, seeking IEng as a “career milestone” or “stepping stone” with CEng as a more medium term target, the main influence on them making that decision is their employer, or workplace mentor.

Some institutions focus mainly on degree accreditation as their primary gateway, so for them whether your degree is “IEng accredited” or “partly CEng accredited” but with “further learning required” is important, although both would be accepted for IEng. The IET emphasises professional competence, as demonstrated through performance in the workplace. As you gain work-based learning this usually becomes more important to your professional performance, than the nature of your degree syllabus and some people even change specialism in response to emerging opportunities. It depends on the type of work, but many employers would opine that they can’t tell the difference in performance between engineers with different types of degree.

Simon’s advice is good and I would add, my own interpretation which is that; the IEng standard describes a “fully responsible” engineer not someone “under training”. So to demonstrate competent practice someone should have a significant period of time during which they have demonstrated consistently, achievements as an engineer aligned to UK-SPEC. The second column of UK-SPEC “examples” gives some context to the competences, although the examples are not prescriptive. There is no rule about length of time, but as a rule of thumb, I would suggest at least 1 year with appropriate responsibility. So on the basis of your question, I mean after the rotational “training” placements. Because IEng is intentionally positioned to be less demanding than CEng, it can normally be achieved sooner, but on the basis that some graduates are gaining CEng within four years of graduation, timing isn’t much of a guide.

If you have recently begun training, I would be concerned if you were being led to expect IEng soon. However, you should seek understanding of how the IEng and CEng standards relate to your type of work and the value of potentially seeking IEng , versus targeting CEng if that is your aspiration. It is difficult advise because in some sectors becoming IEng could add some additional value to you, but I’m sorry to say that in others snobbery is quite prevalent and it wouldn’t. Good luck whatever your choice!
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0 Roy Bowdler over 4 years ago

I would expect you to get quite mixed messages, depending on who you ask, so I suppose the obvious first port of call is your employer. I have recently seen a number of early career engineers with CEng accredited degrees, seeking IEng as a “career milestone” or “stepping stone” with CEng as a more medium term target, the main influence on them making that decision is their employer, or workplace mentor.

Some institutions focus mainly on degree accreditation as their primary gateway, so for them whether your degree is “IEng accredited” or “partly CEng accredited” but with “further learning required” is important, although both would be accepted for IEng. The IET emphasises professional competence, as demonstrated through performance in the workplace. As you gain work-based learning this usually becomes more important to your professional performance, than the nature of your degree syllabus and some people even change specialism in response to emerging opportunities. It depends on the type of work, but many employers would opine that they can’t tell the difference in performance between engineers with different types of degree.

Simon’s advice is good and I would add, my own interpretation which is that; the IEng standard describes a “fully responsible” engineer not someone “under training”. So to demonstrate competent practice someone should have a significant period of time during which they have demonstrated consistently, achievements as an engineer aligned to UK-SPEC. The second column of UK-SPEC “examples” gives some context to the competences, although the examples are not prescriptive. There is no rule about length of time, but as a rule of thumb, I would suggest at least 1 year with appropriate responsibility. So on the basis of your question, I mean after the rotational “training” placements. Because IEng is intentionally positioned to be less demanding than CEng, it can normally be achieved sooner, but on the basis that some graduates are gaining CEng within four years of graduation, timing isn’t much of a guide.

If you have recently begun training, I would be concerned if you were being led to expect IEng soon. However, you should seek understanding of how the IEng and CEng standards relate to your type of work and the value of potentially seeking IEng , versus targeting CEng if that is your aspiration. It is difficult advise because in some sectors becoming IEng could add some additional value to you, but I’m sorry to say that in others snobbery is quite prevalent and it wouldn’t. Good luck whatever your choice!
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