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UK/US Professional Engineering Equivalency

02/13/2011 4:00 PM

What is the American equivalent of the British Incorporated Engineer ?

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Re: UK/US Professional Engineering Equivalency

02/13/2011 4:20 PM

I'm not sure. Could you or somebody from the British Isles explain the aspects of what a British Incorporated Engineer is permitted to do after earning the title?

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02/13/2011 4:33 PM

I'll just hazard a guess: a licensed professional engineer. A licensed professional engineer must take a competency test and have a certain number of years of engineering experience. (Typically the test is taken after "university" as I think the UK would call it.)

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Re: UK/US Professional Engineering Equivalency

02/13/2011 5:00 PM

Consultant?

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02/13/2011 7:47 PM

I believe that the Chartered Engineer is the equivalent of our Professional Engineer and the Incorporated Engineer is not, it being for an engineering technologist. The incorporated engineer appears to be permitted to practise in the UK, even though not Chartered.

I have to say, I don't have a problem with that, they could still earn a PE here with appropriate experience. ( I am a PE, by exam, and I didn't go to college). The "Incorporated" title hadn't appeared when I left Britain to come to The States.

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02/14/2011 10:16 AM

A chartered engineer should have passed a degree or an exam by an institution of engineers and undergone good training and had sufficient experience in a responsible position which requires a good theoretical knowledge. An incorporated engineer may need only a diploma, training afterwards and experience in a responsible position as required by the Engineering council of UK. To compare both and Professional Engineer(USA) one need to check with IEEE(USA) and EC(UK)

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02/17/2011 11:18 AM

You don't have to have a degree to become a chartered engineer in the UK. You can prove compentance with years of experience and a substancial report detailing your competance.

The Washington accord and Syndey accord are supposed to set out minimum standards for PE and Technologists respectively so signatory countries can ensure people are suitably experienced/qualified. Without looking it up myself I would suggest having a look at the Syndey accord.

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02/17/2011 11:07 PM

Engineers without a degree or diploma can become chartered engineers through the mature candidate route in UK and in some commonwealth countries. I can remember reading an article in 1980s in an engineering journal that british EC wants Chartered engineers to have knowledge equivalent to an M.Sc degree. Sometime back an engineering institution in uk did not even acknowledge my application but when I asked them what happened to my application they replied that the mature candidate scheme is no longer available and they sent details of another scheme for which I did not apply as I lost confidence in them. In some(third world) countries graduate chartered engineers wont like engineers without degree. It is a kind of "professional racism". Another issue is recommendations by few other engineers. If an institution implement a just and fair method of evaluation of an engineer why should they ask someone else to recommend?. During the process the candidate should be identified by an index number not by name which might lead to racial and other prejudice.

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Re: UK/US Professional Engineering Equivalency

02/21/2011 12:49 AM

Any link to the organisation ?

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