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- 1. Securing & maintaining standards comparability to enable professional mobility. Dr. David Clark International Affairs Manager
- 2. The Engineering Council and regulation
- 3. About the Engineering Council What we do: • UK regulatory body for the engineering profession • Operating under a Royal Charter • Set and maintain the internationally recognised professional standards for engineering competence and commitment EngTech IEng CEng ICTTech • Licenses 35 Professional Engineering Institutions • Associated with 21 Professional Affiliates • Over 222,000 registrants worldwide 18.6% professionally registered engineers are overseas
- 4. © Engineering Council 2016 UK Regulatory framework Professional Regulation exists to protect consumers and society at large. In the UK it is part of a spectrum of regulatory mechanisms. • Government legislates for the public interest. • Consumers have recourse to civil or criminal law. • Employers are responsible for the proper management of employees and supervision of their work. • Professional bodies set standards of competence and professional conduct, keep registers of qualifications and titles awarded, investigate complaints and impose sanctions. • BSI as the national standards body sets product standards and standards of practice. • Individual professionals take personal responsibility for their own performance, maintaining their competence and high standards of professional conduct.
- 5. The professional engineering community and registration
- 6. Organisation Role Outputs Policy ProfessionalEngineering Royal Academy of Engineering Excellence • Enhancing national capabilities • Recognising excellence • Leading debate Technical EngineeringUK Promotion • Big Bang • Tomorrow’s Engineers • Annual Engineering UK report Pre-19 education and skills Engineering Council Standards and Regulation • Professional development • Licensing PEIs and Review • Maintenance of Standards • Governance • Promotion of registration Post 19 education and qualifications Professional Engineering Institutions Learned societies and membership organisations • Provide professional development to members • Assess members for registration with EngC • Accredit academic and PD courses • Approve technician related courses • Membership services Professional membership
- 8. © Engineering Council 2016 UK-SPEC The Engineering Council sets and maintains the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence • A – Knowledge and understanding • B – Design and development of processes, systems, services and products • C – Responsibility, management or leadership • D – Communication and interpersonal skills • E – Professional commitment
- 9. © Engineering Council 2016 What is competence? The ability to carry out a task to an effective standard • To become competent a professional engineer must have: underpinning knowledge and understanding skill professional attitude …….and the ability to apply these to solve engineering problems • Competence is developed through: a combination of formal and informal learning training experience …….not necessarily separate, sequential or formally structured • Professional competence goes beyond graduate competence
- 10. © Engineering Council 2016 Professional registration • Recognition, through membership of a relevant professional engineering institution, that an individual’s competence has been assessed, and they have attained the standard required for admission to the national register at the appropriate level • Is open to any competent practising engineer or technician, with different levels and pathways to registration available
- 11. © Engineering Council 2016 Professional registration lies at the heart of institution membership A registrant must be a member of a professional engineering institution Professional engineering institutions Letters EngTech IEng CEng ICTTech Letters: MInst Membership Professional Registration
- 12. © Engineering Council 2016 The importance of professional registration Society Individual Importance of professional registration Employer • Ensures the public is safeguarded through provision of independent and trustworthy advice, products and services and safe and reliable infrastructure • Assurance of ethical and sustainable behaviour • Independently verified qualifications and experience • Increased technical and/or managerial credibility • International mobility • International recognition of competence and commitment • Improved career prospects and employability
- 13. © Engineering Council 2016 Professional Registration EngTech IEng CEng Level 3 qualification / Advanced Apprenticeship etc.. Accredited Bachelors degree Accredited Integrated MEng / BEng + MSc Each registration category is equally important There are over 14,500 EngTechs on the register More than 31,000 people hold the title IEng 176,500 people are registered as CEng As your career progresses there is the opportunity to move to another register
- 14. © Engineering Council 2016 Routes to Registration Start Assessment of learning Experience / Work Based Learning Education Base IPD Assessment of Competence If your academic qualifications are not accredited or approved, or you do not have a formal engineering education you can demonstrate required learning and understanding in other ways: Map learning and development against UK- SPEC requirements e.g. Technical report
- 15. International recognition & mobility
- 16. © Engineering Council 2014 International accords and agreements • Degree programmes accredited towards IEng and CEng registration can be found using the Accredited Course Search www.engc.org.uk/accreditation • Programmes bearing the EUR-ACE label or listed on the FEANI INDEX and those accredited by members of the Washington Accord or Sydney Accord can also be recognised for registration • Approved EngTech education programmes can be found on the Technicians Database www.engc.org.uk/techdatabase • Programmes accredited or approved by members of the Dublin Accord can also be recognised for EngTech registration • European Commission: Directive on Professional Qualifications
- 17. © Engineering Council 2014 The PEIs and refugee engineers
- 18. © Engineering Council 2014 Refugee engineers and the PEIs • Several of the PEIs have been active in working with refugee engineers - e.g. IET, ICE, IMechE, CIBSE, EI etc • Membership Reduced fee possible Free online resources – employment, CPD Networking Legal helpline • Evidence of qualifications Gather as much information as possible Comparability using NARIC database • Academic assessment Map to UK-SPEC to determine right membership grade and registration level Qualifications/certificate/transcripts/references (if available) Desk-top review or interview (if no documentation)
- 19. © Engineering Council 2014 Refugee engineers and the PEIs Additional work • Some PEIs have held Professional Registration Advice surgeries 1:1 advice Introduction to competence system How to identify gaps in knowledge/experience Preparing an application for registration • IET have begun to consider a specific process for refugee engineers who cannot provide full documentary evidence or corroborated experience records. Early days Must comply with their licence Potential to share?
- 20. © Engineering Council 2014 Thank-you and questions
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- Professional Engineering Institutions (PEIs) are licenced to award professional registration to their members. A full list of PEIs can be found at:
- Self-regulation occurs when a professional body enters into an agreement with government to formally regulate the activities of its members. In the UK, this agreement traditionally takes the form of a Royal Charter. A Royal Charter provides legal protection of Professional Titles.
- Three bodies which focus on professional engineering, together with the 36 licensed PEIs. Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng): As Britain’s national academy for engineering, the RAEng brings together the country’s most eminent engineers from all disciplines to promote excellence in the science, art and practice of engineering. It’s strategic priorities are to enhance the UK’s engineering capabilities; to celebrate excellence and inspire the next generation; and to lead debate by guiding informed thinking and influencing public policy Government initiatives Circa 1,500 leading engineers Sponsors of ‘Visiting Professors ’ and ‘Sustainability Professors’ EngineeringUK (formally ETB): Independent, not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to promote the vital contribution that engineers, and engineering and technology, make to our society. Also aims to inspire people at all levels to pursue careers in engineering and technology. Promotion of engineering to society through various activities such as Big Bang and Tomorrow’s Engineers Engineering Council: UK Regulatory body for engineering profession. Sets and maintains the internationally recognised standards of professional competence and ethics (CEng/IEng/EngTech/ICTTech) ensuring that employers, government and wider society - both in the UK and overseas - can have confidence in the knowledge, experience and commitment of registrants Please note, EngineeringUK is responsible for promoting ENGINEERING as a career, Engineering Council is responsible for promoting professional registration to engineers and technicians
- The logos of the 36 professional engineering institutions licensed to award professional registration to their members. The IET is the only institution licensed to award ICTTech. IDGTE is the only institution that is not licensed to award IEng and CEng. CIPHE does not have a licence to award CEng. IOP is the only institution that is not licensed to award IEng or EngTech. BCS does not have a licence to award EngTech. Several have registration agreements with Professional Affiliates.
- The UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC) describes the value of becoming registered as an Engineering Technician (EngTech), Incorporated Engineer (IEng) or Chartered Engineer (CEng). It describes the requirements that have to be met in order to gain these qualifications, and gives examples of ways of doing this. UK-SPEC should enable individuals and employers to find out whether they or their staff can meet the requirements, and explains the steps necessary to achieve professional registration with the Engineering Council. Our registrants carry many responsibilities, including the need to observe a professional code of conduct. These are described here, together with advice on how to maintain registration. UK-SPEC is published by the Engineering Council on behalf of the UK engineering profession. The standard has been developed, and is regularly updated, by panels representing professional engineering institutions, employers and engineering educators. It was last reviewed in 2013 and the third edition was published in January 2014. From February 2016, all professional reviews will be conducted in line with this edition.
- These elements are not necessarily separate or sequential and they may not always be formally structured
- You cannot be registered with the Engineering Council without being members of a professional body
- Society with: A process that ensures the public is safeguarded through the provision of independent and trustworthy advice, products and services and safe and reliable infrastructure. Assurance of ethical and sustainable behaviour. Employers with: Globally accepted third party competence assurance for customers and clients. A company that employs Chartered Engineers, Incorporated Engineers or Engineering Technicians will enhance its ability to win potential business. Many customers, both in the UK and overseas, will require evidence of your employees' engineering competence. EngC professional registration is an accepted way of satisfying this. The EngC professional registration is recognised in many other countries through mutual recognition agreements with international professional bodies. Registration with the Engineering Council is recognised under European law through Directive 2005/36/EC. A framework for encouraging employees to commit to Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Individuals with: An internationally recognised and respected approach to professional registration. Confirmation by their peers of their commitment to the profession. An opportunity to exchange and enhance knowledge within communities of practice that supports individual commitment to CPD.
- Each registration category is a stand alone and provides value to employers. Individuals holding these titles, will have demonstrated competence and commitment to the engineering profession. Each level has its own skill set and is recognised internationally. Whilst many registrants retain the level of registration originally awarded to them, others wish to progress through registration as their career develops. Those EngTechs wishing to progress are encouraged to apply for IEng when they meet the criteria. This will ensure they retain the level of competence for the role they are currently doing. Not only this, but by gaining IEng first, applicants will gain experience of the process, in addition, as competences D and E are the same for IEng and CEng, successful applicants will have already demonstrated some of the requirements for CEng. Only when they meet all the criteria for CEng should they be encouraged to apply for this level. Similarly, graduates should also be encouraged to apply for IEng first, not only for the above reasons, but they will be able to gain professional registration sooner.
- NOTES: 1. This is a summary diagram; for full information see UK-SPEC http://www.engc.org.uk/ukspec 2. In all cases registration is dependent on demonstrating competence and commitment at a professional review. 3. For details of qualification levels see http://www.qcda.gov.uk/qualifications/60.aspx and http://www.scqf.org.uk 4. It is possible to progress from one registration category to another. The competence criteria for each register are set out in UK-SPEC Competence is achieved through a combination of learning and professional development. These don’t have to be attained in any order sequential order Registrants must also demonstrate commitment to maintain professional standards and behaviour: to abide by the code of professional conduct, to behave ethically, to maintain competence, and to work within legal, regulatory, professional and technical codes. Information on professional ethics can be found at http://www.engc.org.uk/professional-ethics.aspx Assessment is through a Professional Review. For IEng and CEng applicants this will include an interview conducted by members of the Licensed Member to which the applicant belongs
- FEANI – European Federation of National Engineering Associations ENAEE – European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education Washington Accord includes degree programmes from: Russia, Malaysia, China, Turkey, India as well as UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa etc Provisional members include Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines