Last week, the UN proclaimed 24 Jan 2025 as the International Day of Education to celebrate the transformative power of learning.
Here at SQEP Ltd, the importance of education and CPD – Continuing Professional Development – can never be overstated. Our Senior Engineering Consultant Hannah Jenkins has been assessing what a personal education and development journey in the Engineering world might look like. Read on to learn more about her findings.
According to the Engineering Council, Engineering can take you anywhere in the world, in any sector. An engineer or technician’s career could take almost any path. Throughout this journey, professional registration is a framework that can help guide your study, training and professional development – and demonstrate the standard you’ve achieved.
A Guide to Professional Registration is updated annually and can help everyone from school leavers, careers advisors and STEM ambassadors, through to employers and HR professionals, to navigate the organisations and resources available to identify, support and develop engineering talent.
Professional registration is an internationally recognised standard that demonstrates engineering competence, gained through knowledge and on-the-job experience, to colleagues, employers and clients. A person can begin working towards professional registration at any time, and in any sector or discipline. Whether you’re trying to choose the right apprenticeship or university course, applying for a promotion or a new job, or taking on your next big project: professional registration can support your career goals, demonstrating your competence and commitment to ethics and continual improvement’.
Professional registration is an internationally recognised standard that demonstrates engineering competence, gained through knowledge and on-the-job experience, to colleagues, employers and clients. A person can begin working towards professional registration at any time, and in any sector or discipline. Whether you’re trying to choose the right apprenticeship or university course, applying for a promotion or a new job, or taking on your next big project: professional registration can support your career goals, demonstrating your competence and commitment to ethics and continual improvement’.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng)
- Incorporated Engineer (IEng)
- Engineering Technician (EngTech)
- Information and Communications Technology Technician (ICTTech)
Becoming professionally registered with the Engineering Council demonstrates a benchmark of competence and commitment. This allows the public, employers and their clients to have confidence and trust that registered engineers and technicians have met globally recognised professional standards. Those standards, most notably our UK Standard for Engineering Competence and Commitment (UK-SPEC), continue to recognise the pace of global change and the need for the profession to maintain relevance in the face of emerging new areas of engineering and technology. Developing these standards in line with society’s needs is crucial given that the work engineers and technicians do is essential and often complex. It is vital that registrants not only possess and maintain the knowledge, skills and commitment required to meet today’s engineering and technological needs but also those of future generations.
This commitment, through carrying out Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and complying with a Code of Conduct, means registrants are constantly updating their skills and knowledge ready for the evolving challenges we face. Importantly, it also ensures that registrants continue to commit to working in an ethical and sustainable way.
People who gain further qualifications or experience over the course of their careers can be assessed for another registration title. Many people continue to develop their competence to enable them to move from EngTech to IEng or CEng, or from IEng to CEng.
Want to know more about why you should register and why it benefits employers such as SQEP? Take a look at the Engineering Council’s Guide to Professional Registration
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