The Engineering and Technology Board (ETB), the Engineering Council UK (ECUK), institutions and business are coming together to explore ways to encourage more engineers to seek professional recognition. On 8 November, the ETB and ECUK are holding a stakeholders’ workshop in central London to consider how best to promote professional institution membership and national registration to engineers and engineering technicians.
The workshop will afford a forum for invited senior managers and marketing and HR executives from professional engineering institutions and employers to share their experience. The event will be chaired by Professor Bill Banks, deputy president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a former chairman of the Engineering Professors’ Council.
The workshop will be interactive, identifying new strategies and marketing initiatives to address the key issues that inhibit applications for recognition. These include establishing the benefits that accrue to registrants and their employers from professional recognition.
According to John Morton, chief executive of the ETB said: “This workshop presents an excellent opportunity for key stakeholders, especially the professional engineering institutions, to work together on fresh ideas to convince potential registrants of the significant value this status provides.”
ECUK’s CEO, Andrew Ramsay commented: “UK engineers are fortunate in having access to a strong and competitive system of professional societies providing a wide range of cost-effective services. Better, more consistent marketing will make these benefits available to the many engineers who are missing out.”
Professor Bill Banks, the workshop’s chair and a former chairman of the Engineering Professors’ Council outlined the value of registration: “Registration is evidence of achievement. It indicates that peer assessment has been successfully conducted and gives access to networking opportunities leading to potential for career enhancement.”
