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Setting and maintaining standards, delivering solutions

Setting and maintaining standards, delivering solutions

Published: 28/09/2022

Providing a straightforward guide to professional registration and the professional engineering community, the Engineering Council has updated its ‘Pocket Guide to Professional Registration 2022-2023’. Professional registration is a framework that can help guide your study, training and professional development – and demonstrate the standard you’ve achieved. …

Registrants among 72 new Fellows welcomed by the Royal Academy of Engineering  

Registrants among 72 new Fellows welcomed by the Royal Academy of Engineering  

Published: 27/09/2022

The Engineering Council is pleased to see that half of new Fellows elected are registrants and would like to congratulate them on this significant achievement. At its AGM on 20 September 2022 the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) elected 72 leading figures in the field of engineering and technology to its Fellowship. …

Death of Her Majesty the Queen

Death of Her Majesty the Queen

Published: 08/09/2022

The Engineering Council, its Trustees and staff are saddened to learn of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second and would like to offer their condolences to the Royal Family.   Her Majesty’s support for professional engineering institutions and for the work of the engineering profession was greatly appreciated. …

Alexandra Keeler wins 2022 Baroness Platt of Writtle Award

Alexandra Keeler wins 2022 Baroness Platt of Writtle Award

Published: 19/07/2022

Alexandra Keeler BEng Hons IEng MIMechE, an Overhead Line Design Engineer at Amey, has won the 2022 Baroness Platt of Writtle Award. …

Dr Alalea Kia named winner of the 2022 Hawley Award for Kiacrete – her Climate change resilient permeable infrastructure for a net-zero future

Dr Alalea Kia named winner of the 2022 Hawley Award for Kiacrete – her Climate change resilient permeable infrastructure for a net-zero future

Published: 15/07/2022

The Engineers Trust has announced the winner of its 2022 Hawley Award for Engineering Innovation that helps to achieve Net Zero Carbon. Dr Alalea Kia has been awarded the £5,000 cash prize for her project ‘Climate change resilient permeable infrastructure for a net-zero future – Kiacrete’. …

Almost 4,000 engineers and technicians professionally registered in 2022

Almost 4,000 engineers and technicians professionally registered in 2022

Published: 15/07/2022

The Engineering Council would like to congratulate every one of the 3,893 new registrants so far this year on their achievement. …

The Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) is on a mission to encourage engineers to become professionally registered

The Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) is on a mission to encourage engineers to become professionally registered

Published: 13/07/2022

Independent research tells The Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) that registered engineers are more successful in their careers than those that are non-registered. …

Registrant part of MacRobert Award winning team from Quanta Dialysis Technologies

Registrant part of MacRobert Award winning team from Quanta Dialysis Technologies

Published: 13/07/2022

The Engineering Council would like to congratulate Keith Heyes CEng FIET, Systems Engineering Director & Original Inventor from Quanta Dialysis Technologies, named as the winner of the 2022 MacRobert Award, the most prestigious prize for UK engineering innovation. …

Building professional value and ethics – EPC Annual Congress

Building professional value and ethics – EPC Annual Congress

Published: 07/06/2022

The Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC) Annual Congress is being held this week (7-9 June), as an in-person event at University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. This event includes a range of expert speakers and covers topics crucial to the engineering profession. The Engineering Council’s Head of Professional Standards, Katy Turff, will be part of the panel discussion on ‘Building professional values’ on 9 June. …

Regulation of engineering unaffected by the Professional Qualifications Act

Regulation of engineering unaffected by the Professional Qualifications Act

Published: 27/05/2022

The Engineering Council has consulted with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) on the scope and implementation of the Professional Qualifications Act, which received royal assent on 28 April 2022. BEIS has confirmed that the Act does not currently cover professions that are voluntarily self-regulated by Royal Charter or other legislative means. …