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64 December 2015 Issue: 64 December 2015 Editor: Tammy Simmons e: [email protected] Inside this issue... Welcome Engineering Council Video For the Engineering Council, 2015 has certainly been a year of change. After two office moves we Engineering Council’s new home are now finally settled into our new home in ‘The CPD and mycareerpath® City’ and have also welcomed four new staff members to our team over the last few months. International In this issue you’ll find updates on Engineering New faces at Engineering Council Council news, events, workshops and publications, Licensing news including our new Guidance on Whistleblowing and a very successful forum on Continuing Professional Guidance on Whistleblowing Development. We are also currently working on a Guidance on countersigning security guidance for publication in 2016. If you have not yet seen our new animated video about Pocket Guide to Professional Registration the Engineering Council and the importance of Goodbye Register News! professional registration, please follow the link in the story below. ICES Launches Professional Registration Cyber sexism putting girls off We have been particularly busy on the international front this year, working engineering careers closely with our European and global colleagues on numerous frameworks and agreements. These agreements allow professional engineers and Engineering Diversity and Inclusion technicians to have their qualifications recognised across the world, Toolkit and Survey Launch facilitating greater cross-border mobility. You will find updates on several of CIHT Diversity and Inclusion toolkit these international agreements in this issue. Who offers technical registration? Finally, this will be the final issue of Register News as it is known today. In the New Year we look forward to launching ‘Engage’, a new and improved Awards and announcements newsletter. New Patron of the Women’s Engineering Society On behalf of the Engineering Council staff, I would like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Professor Robert Mair appointed to the House of Lords Jon Prichard CEng FICE FInstRE New Chief Executive at CIWEM CEO IMarEST moves to Birdcage Walk Engineering Council Video We have recently launched a new video about the Engineering Council on our website and You Tube channel. The three-minute, animated video succinctly summarises how and why we regulate the profession and the importance of professional registration to engineers, employers and wider society. Watch it here: http://www.engc.org.uk/videos Engineering Council’s new home Following a temporary stay with our colleagues at the IMarEST in Aldgate while our new office space was being renovated, the Engineering Council has moved into its new home in the Woolgate Exchange building in July. We are once again sharing space and facilities with EngineeringUK and STEMNET. The new office is located between Bank and Moorgate underground stations and the address is: 5th Floor, Woolgate Exchange, 25 Basinghall Street, London, EC2V 5HA. Contact numbers and email addresses for Engineering Council staff have not changed. CPD and mycareerpath® On 16 November, the Engineering Council hosted an event on Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the lecture theatre in the Woolgate Exchange. The forum, chaired by Board Member Rob Smith CEng FIMechE, included presentations by three institutions (IET, IRSE, ICE) about the systems that they have in place for sampling CPD and provided an opportunity to share good practice. The event was part of the Engineering Council’s work to support the institutions in meeting the aspirational date of January 2017 for monitoring registrants’ CPD. Ben Jones, professional development executive, provided an update about the new mycareerpath® monitoring and auditing functions. Over 40 representatives from 26 Licensed Members and six Professional Affiliates attended. A report on the forum and the presentations will be available shortly on the Engineering Council's Extranet. mycareerpath® is the Engineering Council’s online professional development system which has been adopted by 22 professional engineering institutions and six Professional Affiliates for their members to use. mycareerpath® is aligned with the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC) for EngTech, IEng and CEng, and the ICTTech Standard as well as titles offered by other bodies such as CSci, and can be used by individuals to help plan and record their Personal Development (PD) and CPD. The new monitoring and auditing functions, designed to support institutions in sampling CPD records, are now available to institutions. For more information see www.engc.org.uk/mycareerpath International In June the Engineering Council became a founder member of the Agreement for International Engineering Technicians (AIET). This new agreement aims to facilitate international mobility of engineering technicians through recognition of their professional competence against an international standard. It sits under the umbrella of the International Engineering Alliance and will lead to the creation of an international register of engineering technicians, to complement the existing international registers for Incorporated and Chartered Engineers. Over the next few months, the founder members will carry out mutual assessments to determine that their national registration requirements for engineering technicians meet the threshold for professional competence set out in the Agreement. The new register will launch once four founder members are granted full membership of the Agreement. More information about the Agreement is at http://www.ieagreements.org/AIET/ (Left to right – Glen Crawley, Engineers Australia; Dave Little, Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists; Katy Turff, Engineering Council; Dr Keith Jacobs, Engineering Council of South Africa [AIET Chair]; Damien Owens, Engineers Ireland; Brett Williams, Engineers New Zealand.) A significant step forward has been made in the US, in terms of international recognition of professionally registered engineers. In September, Idaho became the first US state to give formal recognition to CEng status in the licensure process, where the engineer must have at least eight years post-registration experience. Chartered Engineers applying for licensure in Idaho should contact the Engineering Council at [email protected] to request that their credentials be validated directly to the Idaho State Licensing Board. More information about the Board are here http://www.ipels.idaho.gov/applist.cfm In June the Engineering Council’s membership of the International Engineering Technologists Agreement was renewed, following a six-yearly review that was carried out by a team of reviewers from Ireland, New Zealand and Canada. The Agreement is between Sydney Accord signatories who have similar policies and procedures for granting professional recognition to their engineering technologists (Incorporated Engineers). Recognising these similarities is intended to promote mobility of engineering technologists by streamlining registration procedures in the participating countries. The Engineering Council is the UK signatory to this Agreement. More information is on our website at International Engineering Technologists Agreement New faces at Engineering Council Daniel Carroll joined the Engineering Council as the office services supervisor in July 2015. His background is mainly in office services/facilities within corporate law and he was previously the office services manager for US law firm Vinson & Elkins. At the Engineering Council Daniel supervises Office Services for all the organisations on our floor at Woolgate Exchange. With Giedre Vasiljevaite, he manages and supports all the health and safety functions, facilities and office services for the floor. Ronke Bello joined the Policy and Standards team at the end of September 2015 as a qualifications and programmes executive assistant. She previously worked in the Professional Development Department at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and has extensive experience in the area of Continuing Professional Development from previous roles held at Babcock 4S and Capita Employee Benefits. Ronke will be working on Engineering Council’s Academic Course Accreditation Database (ACAD) and the Database of Technician Qualifications to approve accredited courses uploaded by professional engineering institutions, and to advise potential registrants about accredited courses and routes towards gaining their desired status. Nadine Schweitzer joined the Registration team in October as a registration officer. Previously she worked at Pearson PLC (Edexcel) for over five years in the role of content production manager, responsible for creating the question papers and mark schemes from start to finish for both major and minor languages such as French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese. As registration officer, Nadine will be working with a number of institutions to respond to queries regarding processes and submissions, identify and deal with issues, support projects and hold workshops. Lucie Richards joined the MarComms team in October as communications senior executive. She previously worked as a media advisor at the Ministry of Education in New Zealand and as European press officer for property company Savills in London, having started out as a news and entertainment journalist. Lucie will be working on various internal and external communications, including Engage (the new Register News), which is due to launch
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