How To Prepare ECCs To Become CPEng Australia

 

The CPEng Australia status is the perfect way to take your engineering career to the next level and put yourself into the limelight based on being known as a capable, experienced, and assessed engineer in your practice area.

This status is recognized all over the world and allows the Chartered professional engineer to take advantage of the opportunities to become a recognized engineering manager, leader, and consultant.

To attain this status, you need to have a successful Stage 2 competency standards assessment. You have to address 16 competencies in this report about which are given below.

Apart from that, here we will also familiarize you with the perfect ways to prepare Engineering Competency claims or ECCs. So, let’s start with the 16 competencies in the stage 2 competency standards assessment.

16 competency elements address in the Stage 2 assessment: 

The following are a list of CPEng competencies:

1.    Engage with the relevant community and stakeholders

2.    Identify, assess and manage risks

3.    Meet legal and regulatory requirements

4.    Communication

5.    Deal with ethical issues

6.    Advanced engineering knowledge

7.    Local engineering knowledge

8.    Problem analysis

9.    Creativity and innovation

10. Evaluation

11. Practise competently

12. Responsibility for engineering activities

13. Develop safe and sustainable solutions

14. Performance

15. Taking Action

16. Judgement

Engineering Competency claims or ECCs:

If you are a member of Engineers Australia willing to attain the Chartered status or get yourself lodged on the National Engineering Register, then you will be required to prove your abilities following the Stage 2 competency standards.

There are several Engineers Australia stage 2 competency papers, and one of them is the ECC (Engineering Competency Claim). It allows the engineer to show their talents, skills, and abilities to become CPEng Australia (Chartered Professional Engineer).

How to prepare a perfect ECC (Engineering Competency Claims):

1.    You must keep in mind that every claim you write must not be over 700 words long. You need to describe in detail how you applied the competency elements. You must also remember that if your ECC is of less than 500 words, then the assessor will not accept it.

2.    The evaluator has to do with what you have done in your engineering career, how you did it, and the reason for doing it. So, use narratives and write your ECCs in the first person.

3.    You can use bullet points to make the list of activities. However, you need to make sure that your sentences make sense and are grammatically right.

4.    You can show the utilization of multiple elements in a single career episode. But, mentioning a minimum of 5 career episodes covering all components will be wise and beneficial.

5.    You must remember that you have to be clear in your writing. Ensure that you are providing the assessor with relevant, accurate, and direct information.

6.    Before writing the ECCs, you should think about some instances. It will give you a clear idea of how to keep everything going and on what things you should pay heed to.

7.    If practicable, utilize major career episodes and leave nothing to the evaluator’s imagination. Insufficient ECCs could be due to a low word count and poor career episodes.

8.    You are only required to describe your activities, choices, and predictions, not your project or the performance of your team.

Creating your Engineering Competency claims following the points listed here, you can increase your chances for a successful assessment to become a CPEng Australia.