Tips To Write Engineering Competency Report (ECCs)

 

 

An influential and convincing engineering competency report is a must for those members of Engineers Australia willing to attain the Chartered status or get themselves registered in the National Engineering Register. These engineers need to show their competencies with relevance to the Stage 2 Competency Standards of Engineers Australia.

The Stage 2 Competency Assessment done by Engineers Australia needs certain documents and one of them is ECC (engineering competency claim). It helps provide evidence of the skills and abilities of a professional engineer.

Here, we will provide you with the tips to write an excellent ECC, engineering competency claims.

Some other processes to prepare engineering competency claims:

The following are processes to prepare an ECC for a perfect engineering competency report:  

As the ECC needs unambiguous evidence, you need to start by taking a minimum of six main career episodes to which you have made immense contributions into the account. For instance, you may think about your resume, ideas, any reports, or achievements you have made over these career episodes, or you might think about the technical issues and activities in the Stage 2 Competency Standards.

Now, you have had an idea of the main career episodes. it is very important to figure out the competencies related to them. Therefore, take a look at Engineers Australia’s 16 competence elements and think about where you think you have utilized them. In a single career episode, you may have utilized more than one capacity. There could be specific skills that have never been used. In this situation, begin anew and try to develop a career episode incorporating all your remaining skills.

Pick job experiences illustrating your talents and skills as your proof of competency for assessment from these career episodes.

Things to remember while writing ECCs:

When you write engineering competency claims, keep the following things in mind to prepare an excellent engineering competency report:

1.    Each of the claims made by you has to be a maximum of 700 words. In detail, it should explain how you competently practiced the competency elements. Keep in mind that an ECC having a word count of fewer than 500 words can be taken as insufficient.

2.    The assessor wants to know about your achievements in your career. You have to tell them how and why you did. Therefore, use narratives and write the ECC in the first person.

3.    You can use bullet points to refer to the activities but ensure that the sentences you write make sense and are free from grammatical mistakes.

4.    You can show the use of more than one element in a single career episode. But, you’d better try to refer to a minimum of 5 career episodes covering every element.

5.    You should have clarity about your writing. It must be kept in mind that you provide clear and concise information to the evaluator.

6.    Take engineering competency claims you are about to write into account so that you can have a clear idea of how your start, process, and the things to pay attention to.

7.    Use influential career episodes, if possible for you, never leave anything for the evaluator to assume. Remember that not only a less word count but a poorly written career episode can also be categorized as an insufficient ECC.

8.    You are not required to explain your project and the performance of your team in that project. You need to explain your projections, actions, and decisions.