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DOES IET MAINTAIN ITS 2006 OBJECTIVES FOR ALL

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The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is the largest multidisciplinary professional engineering institution in the world.
Does IET satisfy the aspirations of all its members and potential Professional Engineer members of both genders in the UK?

At the creation of IET in 2006, all members of IET, MIET, were considered to be equal. It was a multidisciplinary PEI for all PE grades and associates of both genders.

We have lost many IEng members.
We have lost many IIE CEng members.
We do not value and do not attract new IEng members, not to mention women and technicians (6% + 1%).
We have done very little to attract women into the Technology disciplines at any of the grades.
Technicians are not really taken into account in IET or in the UK.

This is an IET problem; it seems to be a typical UK PEI problem, or even a UK society problem.

Do the Council, the Board and IET Staff (nearly 500) uphold 2006 vales today?
Have we drifted away from our 2006 objectives?

I have my personal observations; these IET blogs show great discontent, and the UK PE & PEI statistics are deplorable.
I believe that IET has, over the last 10 years, lost its “cap”; it satisfies only a small part of IET membership.
There is perhaps a reason; to work in Technology in the UK today you need to be ECUK registered. To be ECUK registered you need to join a PEI.
IET is the only multidisciplinary PEI open to generalists and novel Technologists.

Do Professional Engineers join just to have access to Technology posts in this hard competitive world?
Do they join for the title and just ignore the objectives of IET in 2006?

Should we continue on this path or should IET change?

John Gowman – MIET 

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    Does the EC-UK fulfil its function
    An open question (4)to IET.

    All UK Professional Engineers PEs should be registered for assurance and safety / security reasons. Most UK PEs are not ECUK registered. There must be a good reason for this.

    Should there be one national UK PE registration authority?
    Why was the UK ENGINEERING 2016 Report commissioned?

    In the IIE PEI, one of our aims was to amalgamate as many as possible or all PEIs into one PEI. The stalwart, Luddite PEIs refused to negotiate (IME, ICE) (We didn’t even contact the minority PEIs).

    Should there be an umbrella PEI that has 50 or more chapters for all existing PEIs and for the future PEIs in new technologies – 3D printing, Drones, Automatic cars, materials, etc?

    The UK needs to join the 21st century, we need Europe, We do not need neo-liberalism and out of date politics.

    This week there was an election in France, France is already secular, republican and fully democratic, it has called for a change in technical education, apprenticeships and an effort for industry and agriculture to lead the economic revival.
    The UK has turned its back on the future and has no plans to lead us into a new era of economy and technology, just cut and run policies. The whole political structure in France exploded this week-end. A new era has begun.

    I am British, a craft apprentice –engineer, I have pioneered all my life.
    I am an engineer, I make things that work and things that work, work better. I use my ingenuity and knowledge to advance technology for profit or research.
    I am CEng refused 5 times; I was IEng by default, I am proud to have been part of IET.

    Why be CEng ECUK; because jobs are written for CEng by CEng and call for CEng only in recruiting. To be recruited you must be CEng, to be CEng you must pass a subjective Peer review by someone who is certainly not you peer. You must pass a subjective test.

    The ECUK needs to be changed or another organisation created to register all those PEs that are not PEI members.

    PE registration need only be based on qualifications, work experience shown in a CV and Work certificates. These can be audited by universities and HR consultants. Being economic with the truth on a qualification or a CV is a penal offence.

     
    PEIs should be concerned about qualifying all those PEs who have not come through university, but have taken the long hard route to professional expertise. That was one of their first tasks.

    Engineers need to be registered but not by PEIs,
    Engineers need to be correctly assured for their responsibilities.

    J Gowman , MIET. 

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