CEng/IEng Professional Registration

Guidance Notes
V13. October 2013

Introduction
Your application form should be completed following the guidelines below:

 The form should be completed electronically

 Your application will be scanned upon receipt, therefore please do not bind or glue sheets or
place in presentation folders

Your application will be assessed against the UK-SPEC competence and commitment statements.
Please ensure you are aware of these requirements.

A Your Details
First Name, Family Name

Please note that the names provided in this section will be used for all correspondence, including a
professional registration certificate should your application be successful. If you wish a middle name
to be included on your certificate, please include this in the First Name field.

Interview Venues

Please indicate your preferred Centre for the interview. The IET has facilities in the following UK and
Ireland locations and more than 30 International Centres:

London North East England

Birmingham Glasgow
Bristol Edinburgh
Manchester Belfast
Leeds Dublin
Aberdeen

Video conferencing may also be used where available.

If you have special requirements, please let us know so that appropriate arrangements can be made.

Professional Registration Advisor (PRA)

If you have consulted a PRA and they have recommended you to submit this application please provide
their name. PRAs are members with detailed knowledge of the requirements and routes to professional
registration. A PRA will also be able to advise on the presentation aspect of making a formal application

www.theiet.org/advice

B Current Employment
Please complete details of your current employment and indicate your preferred contact details e.g.
home or business.

C Your Expertise
Select a maximum of 3 from the list below that are most relevant in your field of expertise, insert the number
related to the ones you have chosen onto the application form:
1 Acoustics 39 ICT 77 Project Management
2 Air Conditioning 40 Image Processing/Analysis 78 Quality Assurance
3 Air Traffic Control 41 Information Technology 79 Radar / Navigation Aids
4 Airport Lighting 42 Instrumentation 80 Radiation Monitoring

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 5 Antennas & Propagation 43 Intelligence 81 Radio
6 Artificial Intelligence 44 Laser Technology 82 Radio astronomy
7 Automotive Electronics 45 Law 83 Rail Rolling Stock
8 Automatic and Adaptive Control 46 Lighting 84 Rail Electrification
9 Automotive Industry 47 Logic Design 85 Rail Infrastructure
10 Avionics 48 Machine Tools 86 Rail – Traction
11 Baggage Handling 49 Machines System Engineering 87 Railway Signalling
12 Boilers-Mechanical 50 Management 88 Railways
13 Broadcasting 51 Materials 89 Renewable Energy
14 CCTV 52 Mechanical Engineering 90 Robotics
15 Circuit & Systems 53 Mechatronics 91 Satellite Communications
16 Civil Engineering 54 Medical Electronics/Bio-Eng. 92 Semiconductors
17 Computation Modelling 55 Metallurgy 93 Sewage Systems
18 Computer & Numeric Control 56 Metrology 94 Signal Processing
19 Computer Systems 57 Microcontrollers 95 Software
20 Construction 58 Microelectronics 96 Safety Critical Systems
21 Consultancy 59 Microwave Devices & Technique 97 Sales & Marketing
22 Contracting 60 Mining 98 Speech & Language Processing
23 Control & Automation 61 Networks 99 Steel Industry
24 Defence-Land/Sea/Air 62 Neural Networks 100 Structural Engineering
25 Design & Technology 63 Nuclear Industry 101 Studio Production
26 Digital Signal Processing 64 Optical Technology & Application 102 Systems Engineering
27 Electrical Machines 65 Patent Agent 103 Telecommunications
28 Electro Mechanical Systems 66 Petrochemical Industry 104 Telemetry
29 Electromagnetics 67 Plant Design 105 TV & Data Broadcasting
30 Electronics 68 Port Handling 106 Traffic Control Systems
31 Fire Engineering 69 Power Cables & Overhead Lines 107 Training
32 Finance/Banking/Insurance 70 Power Electronics 108 Transport Electronics & Control
33 Generation – Conventional 71 Power Sys Operation & Planning 109 Utilisation
34 Generation – Nuclear 72 Power – Distribution 110 VOIP
Power Sys – Measurement, Protection &
35 Global Systems/Mobile Radios 73 111 Water Boards
Control
36 Hardware & Systems Eng. 74 Power – Transmission 112 Weapons Engineering
37 Health & Safety 75 Procurement 113 Logistics
38 Human Factors 76 Product Development 114 Air Worthiness

D Membership

Please provide your membership number in the space provided.

Non-members must join the IET before submitting an application for professional registration. You
can apply to become a member of the IET at: www.theiet.org/join

E Registration

Select the category of Registration you wish to apply for (CEng or IEng).

F Education

You must give details of:

 All further or higher academic qualifications, including any which you have already registered
with the IET e.g. MEng, BEng, MSc, HNC etc.

 Any formally assessed work-based learning.

Please provide a copy of your further or higher education certificate(s) with your application. These
must be signed by one of your Supporters as a true copy of the original.

G Professional Development or Training Schemes (if applicable)

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You must give details of:

 Formal or structured training or the Professional Development Scheme you have completed
e.g. Employer Professional Development Scheme, Apprenticeship Scheme, Cisco or Microsoft
Certification, etc.

 The scheme number, if accredited by the IET. A list of Employer Professional Development
Schemes accredited by the IET can be found at:
http://www.theiet.org/business/accreditation/

If your scheme was accredited by another institution, please give name of accrediting institution and
scheme number if applicable.

H Professional Services, Papers Presented etc.

You must give details of:

 Any reports, papers and patents published in your name. (If you work in a research or
academic environment, summarise your published papers on no more than one A4 sheet.)

 Any significant technical reports you have written (or co-authored) during your career which
demonstrate your technical ability.

 Any professional service such as the IET committee membership, schools’ liaison, or other
activities, which raise the profile of engineering and technology.

 Any service to the community i.e. JP, school governor, etc.

I Accountability Diagram

Please provide an up-to-date accountability diagram providing the following details:

 Two or three levels of authority above and below your post.

 Your post (indicated with an arrow).

 Any professionally registered members of the IET or similar professional bodies, noting their
category of membership and registration.

 If you have changed your job within the last three years, include the diagram for your
previous post on a separate A4 sheet, together with the relevant date(s).

 If your organisation operates a flat-based structure, please illustrate.

 Do not use any pictures, colour or shading as these make the diagram illegible when
photocopied.

J Career History
Please provide details of your work experience, following the advice below:

 This part of your application is particularly important and you need to present your evidence
carefully and concisely. Remember that your objective is to ‘sell’ yourself to the interviewers
in your application form, so that before you walk into the interview they already think you are
registrable and all they have to do is confirm your competence.

 Summarise your employment history by giving the following for each post you have held:
dates; name/place of employer; your job title; your main responsibilities and achievements
rather than a bland job description. You should complete at least one page as it is unlikely
that less than one page will adequately demonstrate your relevant experience.

 Arrange your experience in chronological order. Our preference is that you start with your
earliest post.
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  Remember when presenting evidence:

o Keep it personal, i.e. talk about your own achievements, not what the team did.
o Use terms such as "I led, designed, built, tested, negotiated, presented, implemented,
achieved…….”
o Avoid use of jargon and unnecessary or unexplained abbreviations.
o Use language that can be understood by someone who is not a specialist in your field.
o Use words like “I designed the XYZ system” rather than “the XYZ system was designed”
so that you are clearly stating who did what and emphasising your own individual role.

 Give an extended description of your current role, or the role that is most relevant to the
demonstration of your current competence, giving details of your responsibilities together with
any relevant metrics. You should aim to be very specific in your examples and if you have
held lots of different roles, you should select examples that best illustrate your competence.

 Indicate the size and complexity of the projects or tasks for which you have had direct
responsibility, and quantify any budget(s) for which you have had overall responsibility. Use
numbers to show the size and scale of your responsibility; for example, numbers of people
supervised, or the value in financial terms of the activity for which you were responsible.

 Remember that your application form will be used as an agenda for the interview, therefore it
is in your own interest to give a full and clear summary of your responsibilities and
competence, otherwise time will be wasted while the interviewers try and understand facts
which should be on the form.

 When you have submitted your application form, it will be checked by IET staff and then
reviewed to determine if there is sufficient evidence of your competence to progress to a
Professional Review Interview, or if further evidence of your competence is needed.

K Declaration

Sign and date the application, confirming the statements given are true to the best of your knowledge.

L Supporters’ Details
Aim to choose Supporters who have detailed and up-to-date knowledge of your work so that all the
information in the application can be verified.

Please see below who may act in the roles of Supporter:

 Engineering Council or international equivalent registered engineer, who is a Member or

Fellow of the IET or another professional technical or scientific organisation of equivalent
standing, working at a senior level to the candidate, preferably for at least two years, and with
direct knowledge of the candidate’s role and responsibilities.

 Where a registered engineer with direct knowledge of the candidate is not available,
the current line manager, or employer, may act as Supporter.

 The third supporter signature is optional and may be necessary, for example, if you work on
contracts, as an additional signature to enable adequate verification of periods for your
employment.

Inquiry Forms
Please complete Section 1 of the Inquiry form and pass a copy of the letter and form to each of your
Supporters for completion. The completed Inquiry forms should be either submitted with your
application form or emailed/posted directly to the IET by your Supporter. Please note your
registration cannot be completed until the Inquiry forms have been received and reviewed as
part of your overall application.

Additional Information

The Institution of Engineering and Technology is registered as a Charity in England and Wales (No. 211014) and Scotland (No. SC038698)
  The IET is licensed by the Engineering Council to award the professional engineering
qualifications defined in the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-
SPEC): www.engc.org.uk/ukspec

 The information you provide initially will be used to carry out a review of your application. As a
result, you may be asked to provide further information about your work experience to
successfully demonstrate the competences set out in UK-SPEC.  You will receive guidance
notes to assist you if you are asked to provide additional information.

 If you have any enquiries, please contact the Registration and Standards Department. The
contact details are below.

Contact Information

Registration and Standards Department

Tel: +44 (0) 1438 767333

Email: profreg@theiet.org

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