Performance standards

• provide a foundation for a wide range of subsequent study and develop a positive attitude towards lifelong learning.

• motivate students towards the practice of engineering and stimulate their learning.

• set the engineering science within the context of real engineering applications.

• be taught in the context of design, so that design provides an integrating theme which exposes students to a proper mixture of analysis, synthesis, conceptual design and the other issues listed below.

• present an intellectual challenge, whilst integrating theory with current industrial practice.

• ensure that the social, legal, economic and political contexts within which engineers operate are understood.

• contribute to the personal and professional development of students in the context of the applications of engineering and the need of modern businesses for articulate, problem solving and aware graduates.

The Educational Preparation for Chartered Engineers (C Eng)

10. The MEng Course. The MEng degree is a broad-based four-year full-time first degree programme (or the equivalent sandwich or part-time). It is intended for students with high entry qualifications and motivation, providing an integrated programme of foundation and specialist learning in a quality environment. The essence of an MEng course is the broadening of the education, compared with a BEng (Hons), of those en-route to becoming Chartered Engineers, with some increased depth of study.

 

The Educational Preparation for Incorporated Engineers (I Eng)

10. Degree for Incorporated Engineers. This edition of SARTOR makes the Incorporated Engineer a degree-level mainstream professional. However, a degree programme specifically provided for Incorporated Engineers must be fit for its particular purpose. It is an engineering degree, but one which aims to develop the knowledge, understanding, capability and awareness necessary to maintain and manage existing technology at peak efficiency. The requirement is for the balance of technological, management and personal skills which prepare for early managerial and leadership responsibility. It need not be of an honours degree level, although in many cases it would be because of the overall breadth and depth of educational achievement recognised by the awarding university.

7. An Engineering Council accredited course is one which satisfies the criteria of this document and has been certified as such by the procedures described in Section 4.2.1. Candidates who complete such a course and receive the corresponding award will be entitled to be entered on the Interim Stage of the CEng register, provided they also satisfy any further administrative conditions. Some will need to complete a Matching Section of further learning prior to Final Stage Registration.

8. A specification will need to be prepared by the appropriate Institutions giving, for each discipline, guidance on the knowledge, understanding, abilities and awareness expected to be developed through an accredited course.

9. Whatever the discipline or level, an accredited engineering degree course is expected to:

• provide a foundation for a wide range of subsequent study and develop a positive attitude towards lifelong learning.

• motivate students towards the practice of engineering and stimulate their learning.

• set the engineering science within the context of real engineering applications.

• be taught in the context of design, so that design provides an integrating theme which exposes students to a proper mixture of analysis, synthesis, conceptual design and the other issues listed below.

• present an intellectual challenge, whilst integrating theory with current industrial practice.

• ensure that the social, legal, economic and political contexts within which engineers operate are understood.

• contribute to the personal and professional development of students in the context of the applications of engineering and the need of modern businesses for articulate, problem solving and aware graduates.

The Educational Preparation for Chartered Engineers (C Eng)

10. The MEng Course. The MEng degree is a broad-based four-year full-time first degree programme (or the equivalent sandwich or part-time). It is intended for students with high entry qualifications and motivation, providing an integrated programme of foundation and specialist learning in a quality environment. The essence of an MEng course is the broadening of the education, compared with a BEng (Hons), of those en-route to becoming Chartered Engineers, with some increased depth of study.

 

The Educational Preparation for Incorporated Engineers (I Eng)

10. Degree for Incorporated Engineers. This edition of SARTOR makes the Incorporated Engineer a degree-level mainstream professional. However, a degree programme specifically provided for Incorporated Engineers must be fit for its particular purpose. It is an engineering degree, but one which aims to develop the knowledge, understanding, capability and awareness necessary to maintain and manage existing technology at peak efficiency. The requirement is for the balance of technological, management and personal skills which prepare for early managerial and leadership responsibility. It need not be of an honours degree level, although in many cases it would be because of the overall breadth and depth of educational achievement recognised by the awarding university.

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