How To Apply For UK-SPEC Chartership (IET)

If you have a keen desire to work in the UK as a Chartered engineer and look for all information regarding this, you must have heard the word ‘UK-SPEC’.

Here, in this blog, we will not only give you a clear idea of the UK-SPEC, but we will also provide you with the necessary information on how to become a Chartered Engineer (CEng) as per IET, Institution of Engineering and Technology. So, give your undivided attention to this blog.

UK-SPEC: 

The full form of UK-SPEC is the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence. It describes the value of becoming registered as a Chartered Engineer, which is also called CEng.

It describes the requirements that a candidate has to satisfy to become a Chartered Engineering. Apart from that, it also gives examples of ways to do this.

UK-SPEC eligibility criteria to become a Chartered Engineer: 

The following are the UK-SPEC Chartered Engineer eligibility criteria:

Competency: 

Competency is the ability to do a task to an acceptable or high standard. Here, it is against the UK-SPEC standard. It is a combination of the right level of skills, knowledge and understanding. One can develop competence with a combination of formal and informal learning, training and experience.

While applying, there are five general areas of competency that are taken into consideration for assessment:

• Professional commitment
• Knowledge and understanding
• Design, development sorting out engineering problems
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Management, responsibility or leadership

Commitment: 

Commitment is to show dedication and engagement to the engineering profession, environment and society. While applying, you have to show that you have had a set of values and behaviors upholding the high reputation of your reputation.

Provide the proof of the following:

• Maintaining employee and public safety
• Taking up work in a way that protects the environment and contributes to sustainable development
• Adhering to codes of conduct, codes of practice and the legal and regulatory framework
• Handling, using and enhancing safe systems of work
• Carrying out the CPD which is necessary to maintain and improve competence related to responsibilities and duties
• Actively taking part within the profession
• Exercising responsibilities ethically
• Adopting a security-minded way
• Recognizing diversity and inclusivity

How to apply for becoming a CEng? 

You can apply for Chartership in the two ways listed below:

• Online via Career Manager, the IET’s online skills development and recording tool for fewer application fees.
• Using a paper application form that can be requested from the IET website.

Things you are required to submit: 

Proof of your competency and commitment: adhere to the UK-SPEC competency framework given above for guidance on how to do this.

You will also be required to have: 

• One person to support your application. If you want, you may have two additional supporters.
• An accountability diagram
• Your development action plan
• Higher educational certificates