Engineering Competency Report For Chartership

 

 

If you are in quest of an opportunity to attain Chartered status as an engineer issued by Engineering Australia, then you have to go through Stage 2 Competency Standard assessment, which is an engineering competency report. So, read below about this report and its elements in detail.

 

Necessary documents for Stage 2 Competency Standard Report: 

An engineer preparing for Chartership has to go through Stage 2 Competency Assessment. For that, they need to prepare an excellent engineering competency report, which requires a series of document submissions for attaining Chartered recognition. The following are the documents they need to submit to prove their eligibility to become a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) by Engineers Australia. 

• Latest CV or resume 
• Engineering Competency Claims (ECCs) 
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Record 
• Engineering Experience Record (EER)

Let’s know each one of them one by one that plays own role in allowing the engineer to prepare an excellent engineering competency report for Chartered recognition: 

 

Latest CV: 

The candidate has to upload the latest resume for their Stage 2 assessment application. For that, they need to include their recent work experience history along with the one they are involved in the present. It has to be simple and in an expected manner. 

 

Engineering Experience Record (EER): 

Here, they need to include all their work experience records. They need to refer to the employer’s name under which they have worked. They also need to mention the job roles and responsibilities they performed in their employment period. It has to be within a word limit of nearly 700 words. 

Engineering Competency Claims (ECCs): 

Engineering Competency Claims or ECC needs an applicant to refer to their core competencies along with the work experience. Their involvement in the technological field of engineering is reflected using the ECC. The total number of competency claim that is to be submitted is dependent on the pathway chosen. Let’s take an example to have this point clear; you need a total of 16 engineering competency claims for the ECR pathways. 

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Record: 

A CPD or Continuing Professional Development shows their skills sets and knowledge in the engineering domain they claimed. It is a very important part of the National Engineering Registration (NER) application. It is a must for them to show how much of the CPD hours they have attained in the last 3 years. It includes the details on their commitment towards the engineering product, technological efficiency, criteria they reflect in the workplace. Therefore, it is an integral part of the engineering competency report.

Professional Engineer competency demonstration: 

The provision of written reports of work, including engineering contributions that are based on the bodies of knowledge related to established engineering practice and engineering science is important to prove competency. Many elements of engineering practice could be based on well-founded but unpublished principles or procedures that are not frequently recorded or written but are taught using practice under the guidance and supervision of an experienced engineer. 

Offer examples of contributions to work that fulfill some or all of the following characteristics of either an engineering issue or an engineering activity when choosing work experience to show as competency evidence. 

 

Engineering issues: 

Involve problems that are barely faced 

Necessitate the utilization of basic principles

Have no clear answer and require abstract thinking and creativity in analysis to create appropriate models

Include a variety of potentially contradictory technological, environmental, social, and other criteria 

 

Engineering activities: 

Need effective outcomes to be delivered on time and within budget. 

Ability to go beyond previous experiences by using first principles. 

Have significant consequences in a wide range of contexts, characterized by the difficulty of prediction and mitigation. 

Involve the coordination of different resources (including money, people, equipment, information, materials, and technology) in the delivery of results on time.

Require the resolution of important problems coming from interactions between different types of conflicting technical, social, environmental, or other constraints. 

Involve the creative use of engineering principles and knowledge, much of which is at or informed by the forefront of a practice area. 

A professional engineer who is applying for Stage 2 Competency Standard assessment would anticipate particular areas growing with others at a functional or proficient level at any one moment, as given below: 

Developing: a new area of the practice, with help from more experienced practitioners and maybe supervision, makes the practice eligible for acceptable quality. 

Functional: a practice component in which you have the elementary basic capability to practice independently at an appropriate level with support or supervision. 

Proficient: a practice element in which your capability to practice independently has been accredited using formal peer assessment, and you can help others in improving and developing their skills. 

A positive Stage 2 exam (engineering competency report) will formalize the transition from functional to competent.