engineering council dave clark march 17 seminar

Securing & maintaining standards comparability to enable professional

mobility.Dr. David Clark International Affairs Manager

The Engineering Council and regulation

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

© 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.

The professional engineering community and registration

Organisation Role Outputs Policy

Professional Engineering

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

http://www.igem.org.uk/

http://www.icme.org.uk/index.asp

http://www.instituteofwater.org.uk/index.php


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


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


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


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

IEngCEng

ICTTech

Letters:MInst

MembershipProfessional Registration


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


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


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

International recognition & mobility


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

http://www.engc.org.uk/accreditation

http://www.engc.org.uk/techdatabase


The PEIs and refugee engineers


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)


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?


Thank-you and questions

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