• Question: What is a chartered engineer?

    Asked by anon-252468 to Jon on 30 Apr 2020.
    • Photo: Jon Whitehouse

      Jon Whitehouse answered on 30 Apr 2020:

      A chartered engineer has completed an engineering degree at some level, and then gained a significant amount of industrial experience which has allowed them to demonstrate good levels of competence in certain competencies.
      Chartership is usually delivered through one of the specialist engineering institutions, (IMechE, IET etc) and allows the holder to use the post nominals CEng, and gives them registration with the UK Engineering Council.

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    Dipendra commented on :

    Hi,

    Good question, this is something which you used to confuse me a lot.
    As Jon said, a chartered engineer is a level of recognition from a group of people (engineering institution) which certify as you working at a certain level. To achieve it normally requires a degree at some level and work experience to show how you have met certain criteria e.g. design a product, planning a project and writing reports etc. You have to provide evidence to show these things when you apply. The benefit is that you are recognised as being a “good engineer” in your industry and can help you to get certain jobs.

    Hope that helps,
    Dipendra