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[mailtobala]

Dear chemical engineers,

I am going to graduate in october. I am very keen to get P.Eng (PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER)or C.Eng (CHARTERED CHEMICAL ENGINEER)in uk.
But i donot the procedure for this. Even i read the topics about these in Ichem eng & whynotchemeng websites, but nothing seems to be clear for me.


My queries;

1. What should i do to get P.Eng and C.Eng titles?
2. To get those, i should write exams or just work experience is enough? or something else?

plz, explain me about the steps to get this title.

P.S: i posted this topic to the engineers section , i think most of our members (UK -engineers) already have C.Eng or P.Eng title.

[niallmacdowell]

Hey,
I am a recently graduated chemical engineer, with the ambition of becoming chartered.

First, you must join a professional association who can award the title, in the UK this would be the IChemE (www.icheme.org).

Then you should try and get a job with a company who has an accredited graduate training program, this will help giude you in the right direction, but the ultimate resposibility lies with you.

You should keep a detailed journal of the work you do and the theoretical aspects of engineering that you have applied.

With the IChemE, advancement from AMIChemE to MIChemE & CEng is through experience gained, there are no exams but there are a series of essays that you have to write and there is an interview at the end.
I think some people do get their chartership by exam, but these are rare individuals who do not have a recognised college degree, it is generally considered in Europe/UK that if you graduated with a good degree, then you will be good enough at taking exams to pass another one.
I have looked at some of the papers in the US for the FE and PE exams and they are not very different from what you would do in school, in fact the FE is quite a lot simpler then some of your final year exam questions. The PE requires more experience (in fact as far as I know, you need to have 4-5 years work experience before you can apply to sit it, but you would want to talk to an american to be sure).

There are definite tangible benifits to becoming chartered, not least the lure of more £$€!! But also some companies will only let those with CEng after their name hold lead positions etc, also it improves your ability to get jobs and to work in different countries, particularly within Europe as once you have a CEng, you can then get a EurEng as well.

Hope that helps.

[mailtobala]

Hey,
I am a recently graduated chemical engineer, with the ambition of becoming chartered.

First, you must join a professional association who can award the title, in the UK this would be the IChemE (www.icheme.org).

Then you should try and get a job with a company who has an accredited graduate training program, this will help giude you in the right direction, but the ultimate resposibility lies with you.

You should keep a detailed journal of the work you do and the theoretical aspects of engineering that you have applied.

With the IChemE, advancement from AMIChemE to MIChemE & CEng is through experience gained, there are no exams but there are a series of essays that you have to write and there is an interview at the end.
I think some people do get their chartership by exam, but these are rare individuals who do not have a recognised college degree, it is generally considered in Europe/UK that if you graduated with a good degree, then you will be good enough at taking exams to pass another one.
I have looked at some of the papers in the US for the FE and PE exams and they are not very different from what you would do in school, in fact the FE is quite a lot simpler then some of your final year exam questions. The PE requires more experience (in fact as far as I know, you need to have 4-5 years work experience before you can apply to sit it, but you would want to talk to an american to be sure).

There are definite tangible benifits to becoming chartered, not least the lure of more £$€!! But also some companies will only let those with CEng after their name hold lead positions etc, also it improves your ability to get jobs and to work in different countries, particularly within Europe as once you have a CEng, you can then get a EurEng as well.

Hope that helps.

Hey ,
Thanks for the awesome reply.
I am going to graduate(M.Sc) next month in Germany and i also want to acheive the C.Eng status in my life.

one more question to you,
how long i(with M.S degree) should work in the company to get C.Eng? is it 4 years for M.S people or just 1 year is enough?

Thank you once again for your detailed information.