How do I Get Chartered?
Chartered Engineer is about having a good academic education
coupled with initial professional experience at the right level
of responsibility.
What do we mean by good academic education?
Professionals with a range of qualifications from all over
the world can achieve Chartered status. You can either hold an
IChemE accredited degree or provide evidence that your qualifications
are equivalent to UK MEng level standard.
Click
here to check if your qualification is
IChemE accredited.
If your qualification is not accredited by IChemE you should
complete Form
E Education Summary as part of
your application for Chartered status.
What do we mean by professional experience?
Candidates wanting to get Chartered should have 4 or more years
experience working in chemical engineering. Your 4 years can include:
- IChemE accredited industrial sandwich
year.
- PhD – completed PhD counts as 1 year.
- EngDoc – completed
EngDoc will count for at least 1 year depending on course
content. To find out how
much you can use,
please contact the membership department.
- Pre-graduation
experience if you are a mature student or on a distance learning
course and have
worked
in industry at the
appropriate level before starting your course.
Your 4 years should not include:
- Short summer placements or placements of less than 1 year
completed whilst at university.
- Periods of part-time
work.
What level of responsibility should you have?
Do others rely on your technical competence and professional
judgement in the area of chemical engineering?
If you answer yes to this question, it is likely you are working
at the right level of responsibility to get Chartered.
Examples could be:
- You sign off the work of other engineers / technicians
- You work without supervision after normal checking procedures
- You lead a team engineers / technicians
- You manage your
own budget
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