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SaRS Guide to Engineering Council Registration

The Route to Engineering Council Registration – What happens next?

The Society provides a route to Engineering Council Registration. To date several people have progressed to CEng and IEng successfully and we are happy to receive many more applications. The process below outlines the route.

Read these pages and gather any information you need.

  • Look at the ECUK Guide in detail – you will need to work with this to complete you application
  • Look at the Society Guide to Membership ( including SaRS membership if you are not already a member)
  • Awareness of joint membership  – if you take this route you will also enjoy the benefits of SEE membership if you wish as SaRS  organises registration in conjunction with the SEE
  • Download your application form for the Route to Engineering Council Registration (and for SaRS if you are not already a member)
  • Check to see that you have completed all the application sections correctly
  • Send your form(s) to the office where we will process them and send to the appropriate committee.
  • You should expect to hear from us regarding your application within 4 weeks.

ECUK Guidance

Engineering Council UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC), available from http://www.engc.org.uk/professional-registration/the-professional-titles/chartered-engineer/

Benefits and details of Registration http://www.engc.org.uk/benefits.aspx

It is essential that you prepare your application with these ECUK guidelines.

Society Guide

SAFETY AND RELIABILITY SOCIETY

ENGINEERING REGISTRATION COMMITTEE (ERC)

GUIDANCE FOR POTENTIAL REGISTRANTS WITH THE ENGINEERING
COUNCIL

1. Introduction

The Society has entered into an agreement with the Society of Environmental Engineers (SEE), a Licensed Body of the Engineering Council (EC), to progress Society members through to Registration with the EC as Chartered or Incorporated Engineers, or Engineering Technicians, utilising the procedures put in place by the SEE.

2. Scope

Progression to Registration with the EC is open to all Members of the Society.

3. Requirements

The requirements for entry to the Registers are described in UK-SPEC[1]. Guidance on how to become registered is included. The applicant can obtain more details from the ‘Regulations for Registration’ [2] which is actually aimed at guiding the Licensed Body in assessing applications. It is expected that the educational requirements of UK SPEC, the successor to SARTOR3, will normally apply to Members wishing to register, however an accredited qualification, to any of the previous standards, remains valid whenever it was gained.

UK SPEC is concerned with the demonstration of:

Competence and Commitment.

It sets out the threshold standards required. Reference 1 also demonstrates the difference between those for Chartered Engineers and for Incorporated Engineers.

The process includes three elements:

Education (underpinning knowledge and understanding),

Professional Development (IPD), and

Professional Review.

It is for the potential registrant to decide which register they wish to join and to assemble the evidence required.

4. Routes to Registration

There are two routes, or candidate procedures, which can be followed depending on the qualifications of the candidate

4.1. Standard

Where the candidate has an exemplifying qualification, for example one which matches one of those set out in UKSPEC.

4.2. Individual Case Procedure

Where the candidate’s qualifications do not meet the exemplifying standard. In this case one of the alternatives set out in UK-SPEC (and in para. 36 of the Regulations for Registration) applies. In many cases a technical report and interview will be required in addition to the professional review interview.

5. Action to be taken by Potential Registrant

Any Society member or successful membership candidate wishing to follow the route to Registration will be considered by the Engineering Registration Committee (ERC).

The candidate will decide which register they want to join (C.Eng, I.Eng. or Eng.Tech.) and by which route they want to follow; the ERC can provide guidance. The candidate will then be required to provide evidence to support their application. For the different routes the candidate will be required to complete the SaRS/SEE joint application form and associated UK-SPEC based Questionnaire (attached to the application form) [3] and to provide:

5.1. For Standard Case: Evidence of the following: academic qualification for checking against list of accredited courses (available on EC website); additional qualifications; training; details of professional development including positions held, knowledge requirements, responsibility, decision making, leadership or innovation.

5.2. For Individual Case: as for standard case plus: details of the contents of academic course(s) pursued, for assessment of their equivalence to accredited engineering qualifications; and determination of any additional qualification required.

6. Role of ERC

The ERC will be responsible for the following:

1. Review of the initial information supplied by the candidate

2. Advising on additional information required

3. Advising candidate on adequacy of application for the register required and the route selected

4. Mentoring to advise candidate on additional requirements or qualifications

5. Progressing the application to the SEE

6. Supporting the candidate

7. Advising the SEE committee assessing the candidate

8. Attending, or participating in, the Professional Review interview

The ERC will initially act in an advisory and screening capacity in order to ensure the effectiveness of the agreement with SEE. The assessment of the candidate will be by the Engineering and Membership Committee (E&MC) of the SEE.

7. Role of SEE

The SEE & MC will assess the candidate in accordance with the requirements of UK-SPEC.

The E&MC will assess the following:

  • Academic attainment- whether accredited
  • Additional academic attainment or matching sections to achieve equivalence with accredited qualification.
  • Training received and whether accredited
  • Development- experience, knowledge, responsibility

From this review the E&MC will propose an appropriate Register and Route to Registration for the candidate. A deposit is payable by the candidate for this review.

If the candidate accepts the decision of the E&MC the remainder of the application fee is due and the candidate is progressed to the Professional Review interview. If the candidate does not accept the decision the process can be discontinued and the Candidate, with guidance from SEE and the ERC, can formulate a plan to attain the required response.

Following a successful Professional Review interview the candidate will either take out a joint SaRS/SEE membership or opt to
agree to pay an administration fee to SEE (non joint member option) and will be forwarded to the EC for entry onto the relevant Register. Members registered through the SaRS/SEE joint membership agreement must remain as Society members and either retain the joint membership of SEE or continue paying the administration fee as long as the agreement remains in force.

8. References

1. Engineering Council UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC), available from http://www.engc.org.uk

2. Engineering Council UK, Regulations for Registration, from UK-SPEC page on EC website

3. SaRS/SEE Joint Membership Application Form, available on Society website.

4. SEE, Procedure for Joint Membership Application and for Payment of Fees, available on Society website

ERC/Guidance 1, V.4/HFH 24.03.11

The route to joint membership is in conjunction with the Society of Environmental Engineers.

The Society of Environmental Engineers (SEE) www.environmental.org.uk is a professional Society which exists to promote awareness of the discipline of environmental engineering, and to provide members of the Society with information, training and representation within this field. The SEE is a Licensed Member of EC(UK) able to register engineers as EngTech, IEng and CEng.

Environmental engineering is concerned with the measurement modelling, control and simulation of all types of environment. It is an interdisciplinary subject bringing together aspects of mechanical, electrical, electronic, aeronautical, civil, energy and chemical engineering. It also draws from the fields of physics, acoustics, metallurgy, microbiology, pharmacy and many other technical and scientific disciplines.

Membership of SEE is an optional part of the joint membership package.

The Application

Also downloadable below are the CEng/IEng Application form which will need to be completed when the application is forwarded to the SEE.

If you are not already a SaRS member, submitting this form will automatically start the SaRS membership process which must be completed before your Chartership application is submitted to SEE. In this case your proposer and seconder must be members of the Society or equivalent CEng level, stating relevant membership numbers and affiliations.