CPEng Competencies For Engineers Australia Assessment

 

If you are an engineer with a keen desire to become a CPEng or attain Chartership, then you have to go through Stage 2 Competency Standard assessment and prove your engineering competencies. Here, in this blog, we will provide you with more valuable information regarding this.  

What is the Stage 2 Competency Standard assessment?

The Stage 2 competency standard assessment is utilized as the basis of evaluation for Engineers Australia competencies for Chartership. Apart from that, it is also used for registration on the National Professional Engineers Register (NPER). Chartered membership is exclusive to EA (Engineers Australia). This professional credential is recognized all over the world by the government, businesses, and the general public. The attainment of this status comes with career-long obligations to maintain engineering competency in a practice area chosen by the candidate. 

The expectations you need to fulfill as a professional engineer:

The community has some expectations from an experienced professional engineer. These expectations are how they apply the engineering competencies they have, and how they will behave towards others. 

You need to fulfill the following criteria as a professional engineer: 

1.   Clearly understand the needs of clients, different types of stakeholders, and society in general. 

2.   Perform the expected tasks to optimize social, economic, and environmental outcomes over the full lifetime of the engineering product or program. 

3.   Interact influentially with other professions, disciplines, and people. 

4.   Make sure that the engineering contribution is properly integrated into the totality of the project, process, or program. 

5.   Hold the responsibility for: 

• The interpretation of technological possibilities to business, society, and government. 
• Make sure, as far as possible, that policy decision are properly informed by probabilities and consequences. 
• Make sure that costs, limits, and risks are properly understood in the situation of the desirable results. 
• Bringing knowledge to bear from many sources for the development of solutions to complicated issues. 
• Make sure that non-technical and technical points are properly integrated. 
• Handling risks and sustainability problems. 
• Make sure that every aspect of a project, process, or program is soundly based on theory and basic principles. 
• Understanding clearly how new development harmonizes with established practice and experience and to other disciplines with which they can have interactions.  

 

Stage 2 Competency Standards to become a CPEng: 

The Stage 2 Competency Standards are generic in sense, which means that they apply to every discipline of engineering in four units: 

• Personal commitment 
• Obligation to community 
• Value in the workplace 
• Technical proficiency 

All these units contain competency elements and indicators of attainment. The competency elements are the capabilities that are necessary to the unit of competency and the indicators of attainment work as a guide to the engineering work that is regarded as showing attainment of that competency.  

Demonstrating competency: 

Demonstrating competencies needs presenting written accounts of work involving engineering contributions (contributions based on the bodies of knowledge related to established engineering practice and engineering science. May engineering practice aspects may be based on well-established but the guidelines that are not published, or even practices that are not commonly written or documented but learned using the experience of practice under the guidance of a more experienced engineer. 

While choosing work experience to provide as proof of competency, you need to provide examples of contributions to work that has some or all the characteristics of an engineering issue or activity as given below: 

Engineering issues: 

• Involve different types of conflicting sociological, environmental, technical, and other needs. 
• Doesn’t have obvious solutions and needs abstract thinking and originality in analysis to formulate suitable models. 
• Need the application of first principles. 
• Involve infrequently encountered problems. 
• Has complicated stakeholder needs and results involving different types of groups of stakeholders with a wide range of requirements. 
• Can be dissected into parts or sub-problems. 
• Need the creation of successful, timely engineering solutions. 

 

Engineering activities: 

• Involving the coordination of diverse resources (and for this, resources include people, money, equipment materials, technologies, and information) in the timely delivery of results. 
• Needing resolution of important issues originating from interactions between conflicting or broad-ranging technical, environmental, sociological, or other needs. 
• Involving inventive utilization of engineering principles and knowledge, much of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of a practice area. 
• Needing the attainment of successful results on time and budget.
• Being able to extend previous experiences by using first principles. 
• Having significant consequences in different types of contexts, characterized by difficulty of prediction and mitigation. 

 

Only knowing what is expected from a CPEng is not enough to be positively assessed by Engineers Australia, you must rely on Stage 2 Competency Standard report writing services for a positive result.