Chartered Engineers (CEng) develop solutions to engineering problems using new or existing technologies, through innovation, creativity and change and/or they may have technical accountability for complex systems with significant levels of risk.
Why become a Chartered Engineer?
The benefits of professional registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) include:
- Become professionally registered as an CEng – a globally recognised benchmark
- Improved career prospects and employability
- Higher earning potential
- Demonstration of a professional attitude valued by employers and customers
- International recognition of competence and commitment
- Evidence of expertise
- Greater influence within industry and own organisation
Who can apply?
The CEng title is open to anyone who can demonstrate the required professional competences and commitment, as set out in the professional standard UK-SPEC, available to download here. Individuals generally develop these through education and working experience.
Recognised Qualifications
The application process for CEng registration is more straightforward for those with exemplifying academic qualifications. For CEng this is one of the following:
- A Bachelors degree, with Honours, in engineering or technology, accredited for CEng, plus an appropriate and accredited Masters degree or Engineering Doctorate (EngD), or appropriate further learning to Masters level
- An accredited Bachelors degree (Hons) in engineering or technology (if obtained before the year 2000). You can find out if your courses are accredited by the
Engineering Council here: https://www.engc.org.uk/education-skills/course-search/accredited-course-search/.
- An accredited integrated MEng degree
If you cannot find your
course on the Engineering Council’s database and have studied at a
European university, your degree may still be recognised as equivalent to
an Engineering Council accredited degree for registration purposes. You
can check this here: https://www.feani.org/european-engineering-education-database/eeed-database.
Individual Assessment
Applicants may also apply through Individual Assessment if one or both their degrees are not listed on the Engineering Council’s accredited course search and are from an appropriate academic background.
To apply through Individual Assessment for CEng, you will need to have your qualifications approved by the CIWEM Qualifications Panel (QP) before submitting your online application. To do so please send a copy of your CV and university certificates and transcripts (undergraduate and postgraduate if applicable) to membership@ciwem.org.
When assessing qualifications, the QP look at how much engineering an applicant has undertaken during their studies and whether they are sufficient to meet the output standards for engineering programmes agreed between the Engineering Council and the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (available here). If the Panel identify aspects that can be matched against all engineering output standards they will confirm the applicant’s eligibility to submit a CEng application.
In some cases where the QP cannot identify sufficient engineering content in an applicant’s qualifications, they may decide that there is potential for the applicant to demonstrate that they have achieved the equivalent learning to the recognised qualifications through their industry experience. In such cases they may invite the applicant to undertake the Work Based Learning Route towards CEng. Alternatively, they may also recommend the applicant undertakes further learning in order to be eligible to apply for CEng.
Please note applicants holding the exemplifying qualifications are automatically eligible for interim registration.