Interim registration is the finest way to start your journey towards attaining professional registration. Being registered will provide you with an advantage over other recently graduated engineers if it’s about applying for jobs.

Interim registration is for an aspiring technician or engineer in the initial professional development stage of a career in engineering. It shows your drive, enthusiasm and commitment to your career and the profession and to develop the professional capability that is required for full registration.

Attaining this registration will be an influential piece of proof that you have completed the learning necessary to attain the underpinning knowledge and understanding for your picked professional title.

Eligibility criteria:

Join a licensed professional engineering institution or Professional Affiliate having a registration agreement that is related to your field of engineering and provides interim registration.

Undergo an evaluation conducted by that professional engineering institution to make sure that you have gained the underpinning knowledge and understanding required for your chosen professional title.

On a successful assessment, your institution will make an interim registration application to the authority (the Engineering Council) so that it can issue you with an interim registration certificate for the relevant professional title.

Learning includes formal qualifications accredited or accepted by the Engineering Council, or they are recognized under one of the international engineering education Accords, as well as individually evaluated learning.

If possessing a formal qualification in engineering, you need to check if this formal qualification has accreditation from the Engineering Council by checking one of the databases of engineering degrees or technician’s qualifications or apprenticeships. You can find them by reaching the official website.

To be kept in mind: only a few institutions provide candidates with interim registration. So, if you want to become an interim registrant, contact the institution to check if it can offer this. 

When you have demonstrated that you have the underpinning understanding and knowledge, attaining full professional registration will involve the development of your knowledge, competency and understanding of engineering principles through working experience.

So, if you want to become a Chartered Engineer (CEng), then you should have an interim CEng journey, which starts with interim registration and leads to the CEng title.

Here, we told you about the eligibility criteria for interim registration, now let’s know about the eligibility criteria for the CEng status:

CEng eligibility criteria:

The CEng (Chartered Engineer) qualification is for anybody on the condition that they have the necessary professional competencies and commitment as given in the professional standard UK-SPEC. Usually, a professional develops these through education and work experience.

The CEng registration application process is much easier for those ones who have exemplifying academic qualifications. For the CEng status, this is one of the following:

A bachelor’s degree with honours in technology or engineering with accreditation for the CEng title and an appropriate and recognized Master’s degree or Engineering Doctorate (EngD), or appropriate further learning to the master’s level

A recognized integrated MEng degree

Note:

If you possess academic qualifications which, when you acquired them, were with recognition as the exemplifying qualification for the title of CEng, they are still regarded as being recognized.

If holding the exemplifying qualifications, then you will automatically be eligible for interim registration.

You can still attain the CEng status without these academic qualifications. To know more about this, hire a UK-SPEC expert.