[Closed] Any IET mentors on here?

Not a mentor, but currently doing my chartered application & you have my sympathy! Knowing what to write to cover all the UK-Spec requirements is a real chore.
I keep procrastinating over it and getting nowhere!! 🙂

Just out of interest, are you managers or technical?

Just out of interest, are you managers or technical?

Me - I'm technical, I suppose. Definitely not a manager. Mechanical Design Engineer....and our company are pretty supportive of us going for professional registration. It's just finding the time to do the application that is proving elusive.

I'm IMechE, not IET but happy to take a look, I do a lot of work with develoing engineers and am formally mentoring some as well as supporting a few direct applicants.

Contact via my profile if you like .

Thank @tiim - will drop you a PM later.

I'm technical - Electrical Design Engineer, taken me years to actually finish filling the forms in - think I started about 6 years ago lol.

My company is pretty supportive, just the last mentor they got in wasn't that interested in us 'slightly older' applicants - seemed more bothered about the Grads.

In a similar-ish position, recently sent off my application form after years of procrastinating,. I hadn't got the supporters form completed till this week and then I need to update my application form and then hopefully its 'just' the interview to go. I often wonder if its worth it

I often wonder if its worth it

I never worked out why anyone would bother...

Sort of thing people only do as large companies like to have 'Personal Development' objectives..

For some areas of engineering, CEng is expected, like the power industry.  For me though (microelectronics), I've pretty much given up on the idea, partly put off by having to pay the IET every year to be allowed to keep using CEng after your name.  Maybe 10% of the staff here are chartered, mainly because they came from defence companies which encouraged it.

It's largely expected in chemical engineering too, some clients specify that anyone on a senior engineer rate must be chartered so the contractors are happy to pay the fees every year.

I'm tempted to bin my IChemE chartership forms and go with the IET, there was a bit of a debacle a couple of years back when someone got elected to the committee who wasn't a career IChemE'er (i.e. he was an actual engineer, the horror!) which lead to all sorts of tribunals and wasting of members money as the incumbents tried to remove him!

I'm a software dev - the requirements seemed to be biased towards large company / projects and budgetary control / oversight. I doubt I would get through the process.

But Savoy Place - nice place to pop in for a coffee and a sandwich...

I’m tempted to bin my IChemE chartership forms and go with the IET,

I was IMechE, but swapped allegiance to the IET. IMechE seemed a bit more 'stuffy' and not really keeping up with modern times. And the industries it seemed to be interested in weren't really anything I've been involved in.

The IET seems a bit more along my lines of interest.

The IET certainly had more interesting events/talks, although I could go to those anyway (not sure if that was a reciprocal thing with the IChemE or if work was a corporate member or something.

Have any of those with CEng also went for EurIng?

My company would prefer CIBSE membership, but that's a lot more of an old boys club than many of the other institutes and about twice the cost and hassle of the IET.

I've been a member of the IET for 20 odd years - originally the IEEIE, then the IEE and now the IET after they merged.

If I get CEng I'm not sure it's going to make a huge difference to me - mainly the Company, but the £1.5k bonus will go nicely toward a family holiday and chuck some in the kids savings.

Finally submitted my application this morning - only taken me 6 years lol

Thanks to @tiim for reviewing and providing helpful comments and advice on my application.

Will sit back and see what happens now.