The Changing Standards for the Registration of Engineers

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The Changing Standards for the Registration of
Engineers

• Professor Bob Cryan
• PVC(LT)

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Programme

• 1145 UK-Spec
• Professor Kel Fidler
• 12.45 Lunch
• 13.45 What do the PEIs think?
• 1445 Tea cakes
• 15.15 Moving to output standards
• Professor Alistair Sambell
• Dr Sarah Williamson
• 16.15 Final discussions
• 16.30 Close

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Acknowledgements

• Dr Sarah Williamson - LTSN
• Liz Willis LTSN
• Professor Alistair Sambell Dean of Eng.
• Dr Roger Penlington School of Eng.

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Engineering at Northumbria

• Approximately 5,000 Engineering students
• School of Engineering 1,000
• School of Built Environment 1,500
• School of Informatics 2,400
• Accredited by
• BCS, CIBSE, IEE, IIE, IMechE, IoP
• One of 5 Universities participating in the DTUS

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Strong Professional Interest by Senior Managers

• Vice-Chancellor, Professor Kel Fidler
• ECUK Board Member
• Chair of UKSPEC group
• Former Chair of IEE Accreditation
• Former Chair of DABCE
• Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bob Cryan
• Vice-Chair of IEE Accreditation Committee
• Vice-Chair of DABCE
• Dean of Engineering, Professor Alistair Sambell
• Member of IEE Accreditation team
• Dean of Informatics, Professor Gillian Lovegrove
• Former Chair of CHPC

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Applicants accepted to Engineering as a of all
accepted applicants
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SARTOR 3 Observations

• SARTOR 3 tests
• Technical deepening
• Technical broadening
• Group project
• Non-technical broadening
• Entry requirements
• Impact
• Dismantling of perfectly good BEng degrees
• Withdrawal from accreditation
• Lack of understanding of MEng
• Confusion over Matching Section
• Lowering of international status of UK BEng

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SARTOR 3 Observations

• Chair of IEE DAC highly critical at the time
• Paid the price!!
• Professor Kel Fidler
• Chair of the Registrations Standards Committee
• Chair of the UK-SPEC Working Group