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UK Engineering Organizatiions standing out of the EC "umbrella".

Former Community Member over 4 years ago

At a certain point one wonders: " why important Engineering (and Science) UK Organizations such as The Society of Petroleum Engineers(SPE), The Institute of Motor Industry (IMI), The Royal Society of Chemistry(RSC), to name but a few, prefer staying out from the EC "umbrella" ?
https://www.spe.org/en/
https://www.theimi.org.uk/membership
https://www.rsc.org/careers/cpd/practising-scientists/chartered-status/

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0 Former Community Member over 4 years ago

IMI and RSC are nonengineering societies. SPE is US-based.

SPE is a US Texas (Oil State)-headquartered society they are international and offer their own certification plus preparation to the US Licensure as a PE.

In the USA for the certifications, such as offered by SPE or PMI, etc passing a written examination is usually a requirement with relevant years of experience.

IMI - is the UK, EU independent nonengineering institute, while the motor industry has overlap with engineering they also do sales, management, and nonengineering activities, they are not registering engineers so there is no need for EC licensing. They do offer professional register for their members as Motor Industry professionals, just like BCS offers Chartered IT Professional registration or FEDIP http://fedip.org/ Informatics Professional or Chartered Manager CMI or Chartered Scientists with their own Science Council.

RSC - focused on chemical sciences rather than engineering. The members of RSC can gain a Chartered Chemist (CChem), Chartered Scientist (CSci), Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) or Chartered Manager (CMgr) status.

But their focus is on Chemist and not Chemical Engineer. So there is no need for licensing by the Engineering Council. They are a nonengineering society.
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0 Former Community Member over 4 years ago

IMI and RSC are nonengineering societies. SPE is US-based.

SPE is a US Texas (Oil State)-headquartered society they are international and offer their own certification plus preparation to the US Licensure as a PE.

In the USA for the certifications, such as offered by SPE or PMI, etc passing a written examination is usually a requirement with relevant years of experience.

IMI - is the UK, EU independent nonengineering institute, while the motor industry has overlap with engineering they also do sales, management, and nonengineering activities, they are not registering engineers so there is no need for EC licensing. They do offer professional register for their members as Motor Industry professionals, just like BCS offers Chartered IT Professional registration or FEDIP http://fedip.org/ Informatics Professional or Chartered Manager CMI or Chartered Scientists with their own Science Council.

RSC - focused on chemical sciences rather than engineering. The members of RSC can gain a Chartered Chemist (CChem), Chartered Scientist (CSci), Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) or Chartered Manager (CMgr) status.

But their focus is on Chemist and not Chemical Engineer. So there is no need for licensing by the Engineering Council. They are a nonengineering society.
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