CEng or IEng as a licence to practice ?
A question to the house.
LAME / Certified Mechanic / Licensed Technician (choose the title according to nationality and preference) level Engineering professionals have a clear licence to practice. Aircrew have a clear licence to practice.
However, although the CEng and IEng qualifications exist for those of us practicing in design / analysis / senior management roles, they are not a license to practice. Somebody with no formal training or qualifications can quite legally do (the Engineering parts) of my job, whilst there are people junior to me who could not without formal qualifications.
Personally, I'm troubled like this. I'm proud of my CEng, and hope that it is a fair reflection of the level I work at. I would like it to be a licence to practice, forcing those without similar level qualifications to either prove that they can meet the grade in a formal assessment system, or have their work checked and supervised by somebody who has.
Opinions anybody?
Eur.Ing. Genghis, CEng