Are you an engineering professional with a potential Chartered Engineer jumping inside you to come out and work in Australia? if yes, then you must become yourself familiar with the Stage 2 Engineers Australia competency standards.

Now, let’s move a step ahead and know what it is.

What is the Stage 2 report of EA competency standards?

The Stage 2 Competency Engineers Australia standards are used by the assessment authority as the basis of assessment for the designation of CPEng (Chartered Professional Engineer) and registration on the National Engineering Register (NER).

Chartered membership is exclusive to Engineers Australia, which is the assessment authority. This professional status has recognition from the government, businesses and the general public all over the world. Achieving this status comes with a career-long obligation to maintain competency in a chosen practice area.

4 major Stage 2 Engineers Australia competency standards:

The following are the major Engineers Australia Competency Standards for Chartership Stage 2:

1.   Personal commitment toward the service needs of an engineering professional

2.   Following values at the workplace a professional engineer

3.   Showing technical proficiency as an engineer

4.   Community obligation, as an engineering professional

What Australia expects from a Professional Engineer:

There are some expectations from an experienced professional engineer, their ability, and the way they use this competency and how they will behave. An experienced professional engineer:

Has a clear idea of the requirements of clients, broad-ranging stakeholders and of society as a whole.

Work to improve social, environmental and economic outcomes over the full lifetime of the engineering program or product.

Interact influentially with other disciplines, professions and people.

Ensure that the engineering contribution is properly integrated into the totality of the project, process or program responsible for.

Understand technical possibilities for business, society and government.

Make sure, as much as possible, that policy decisions are properly informed by possibilities and consequences.

Ensure that costs, limits and risks are properly understood in the context of the desirable results.

Bring knowledge to bear from different types of sources for the development of solutions to complicated issues and problems.

Make sure that technical and non-technical considerations are properly integrated.

Handle risks as well as sustainability issues.

Make sure that all aspects of a program, project or process are soundly based on theory and fundamental principles.

Understand clearly how new developments are in proportion to established practice and experience and to other disciplines with which they may interact.

Whereas the outcomes of engineering generally have physical forms, the work of a professional engineer recognizes the interaction between people and technology. A professional engineer may do research related to advancing the science of engineering and developing new principles and technologies within a wide engineering discipline. Alternatively, they may play a positive role in educating engineers, continual improvement in the practice of engineering and devising and updating the standards and codes that govern it.

So, when you prepare for the assessment of Engineers Australia competency standards, keep all these things in mind.