IChemE
The global organisation for chemical, biochemical and
process engineering professionals
Professional qualification
Profession
Knowledge & al
understanding experience
Required Required
level level
Chartered Chemical Engineer
Optional registrations at time of application:
Chartered Engineer CEng
Chartered Scientist CSci
Further application for:
Chartered Environmentalist CEnv
European Engineer Eur Ing
1. Knowledge & understanding:
required level
- Underpinning maths & science
- Core chemical engineering
- Engineering practice
- Design practice
- Wider aspects e.g. sustainability, safety in design,
transferable skills, awareness of commercial implications
- Major design and/or research work
- Advanced depth and breadth of chemical
engineering
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment
All applicants must demonstrate the
minimum level of knowledge and
understanding required for Chartered
status. You can do this through a piece of
written work;
Industry: Technical report
Academia: Collection of papers
We may ask you for a particular focus,
or you may be fully exempt.
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment
Technical report
Required
level
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment - process
Technical
Technical
report
interview
review
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment
If your degree is accredited,
or you are assessed as meeting the
minimum required level part way:
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment – design
Core chemical engineering
Assessed or approved: ok (e.g. through FEANI)
Design capability:
- Major design and/or research work
- Integration of demands of chemical engineering
with those of other disciplines
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment – design
Technical report
• design
Required
level
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment - process
Technical
report
review
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment
Or...
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment – further learning
Core chemical engineering
Accredited or assessed: ok
Further learning:
- Advanced depth and breadth of chemical
engineering
- Broad based team work
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment - further learning
Post graduate course(s)
• further academic learning
Required
level
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment - further learning
Technical report
• further learning in industry
Required
level
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment - process
Synopsis Technical
Technical
report
approval interview
review
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment
If your degree is accredited or
you are assessed as fully meeting
the minimum required level:
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment
Core chemical engineering
Accredited or assessed: ok
Further learning & design:
Accredited or assessed: ok
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment
Accredited or assessed
to
Required
level
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment
IChemE accreditation:
If you think your degree was accredited,
check the date and level with online
search
FEANI:
Check online if you think your degree
might be approved via international
agreement.
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment – Technical reports
Standard or design focused
Guidance document + word count
If post graduate study or work in industry
- must meet requirements
Optional feedback on summary
Complete a cover sheet
Submit with full application
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment – Technical reports
On further learning in industry
Register with IChemE + obtain guidance
Approx. 18 months work / 6 month project
Submit synopsis of chosen project
Approval required
Specified report structure (5,000 word limit)
Attestation: signed by supervisor or similar
Submit as soon as ready – before full
application
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment – Technical reports
Not an assessment of
your career
professional responsibilities
training, employment and experience
managerial or organisational competency
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment – Technical reports
Needs to be focused on:
Substantive chemical engineering work
of your choice
Your role and contribution
Chemical engineering principles
underpinning your work
Calculations, drawings, flowsheets,
diagrams
1. Knowledge & understanding:
assessment – Technical reports
Remember your audience:
IChemE assessor looking for technical
knowledge & understanding
Follow the guidance and ensure report
meets requirements
Do not exceed word limit by more than 20%
Use examples on web
Careful with acronyms, write well
Professional qualification
Profession
Knowledge & al
understanding experience
Required Required
level level
2. Professional experience
Professional
experience
Required
level
2. Professional experience:
required level
Sufficient breadth and depth of
experience in the practical application
of your knowledge to prove
competence
Time
Skills
Level of responsibility
2. Professional experience:
assessment
Competence & Commitment
report
2. Professional experience
Depth
Continual
Breadth
improvement
Competence &
Commitment
Best practise Responsibility
Process
safety
2. Professional experience:
assessment
Competence A: Application to
practical situations
B: Wider implications
C: Interpersonal skills
D: Professional conduct
E: Continuous
Professional
Development
Commitment
2. Professional experience:
assessment
Competence A: Application to
practical situations
B: Wider implications
C: Interpersonal skills
D: Professional conduct
E: Continuous
Professional
Development
2. Professional experience:
assessment - responsibility
Do others rely on your technical
competence & professional judgement
in the area of chemical engineering?
Proactive
Use initiative
Take ownership
2. Professional experience:
assessment - responsibility
Professional = post-graduate
Practical aspects of PhD/EngD/MRes
1 year industrial placement (think
responsibility level)
Mature / long distance study
2. Professional experience:
assessment - depth
Technical detail
C – context
A – actions
R – results
Confidential/sensitive detail not
necessary
2. Professional experience:
assessment - breadth
Process plant operation Legislation, regulation
Computer application Development of products, services
Project management, administration Teaching, managing, training
Instrumentation & control Quality & assurance
Technical / economic evaluation R&D
Economic accountancy, cost
Technical sales, marketing, contracts
estimation
Design of process, plant &
Health, safety, risk aspects
equipment
Sustainability & environmental
aspects
2. Professional experience:
assessment - tips
Personal role:
Examples from your own experience
Best reflect your chemical engineering
Individual contribution
Your active contribution:
I did3 I researched3 I calculated3
I was part of a team that...
2. Professional experience:
assessment - tips
Equal weighting: breadth and depth
1 example in technical detail for depth:
I optimized a process9 How?
Who did you enrol to help?
What did you modify?
2/3 bullet points for breadth examples
Refer to same project more than once
Chartered Chemical Engineer
+ CEng registration
Section A:
Application of chemical engineering
knowledge and understanding to practical
situations
Chartered Chemical Engineer
+ Chartered Scientist registration
(CSci)
Section A:
Application of scientific knowledge to
practical situations within chemical
engineering context
CSci: 1 x Section A, 1 x Section E
CSci & CEng: 2 x Section A, 2 x Section
E
A Application of knowledge
i Identifying problems, opportunities &
projects
ii Combining ideas & contributions of
different people & disciplines
iii Developing new solutions & designs
iv Scientific / technical evaluation and
optimisation
v Planning & execution of projects
Ai Identifying problems, opportunities
& projects
Explain how you applied your knowledge
to work through a situation:
Identify the scenario
What fundamentals did you refer to?
Define the parameters
Describe the actions you took
What was the outcome (if realised)?
Ai Identifying problems, opportunities
& projects
Example problems:
Safety
Product quality
Production capacity
Example opportunities:
Market growth, new product
development
Exploit new technology
Aii Combining ideas & contributions
from different people & disciplines
• Who you’ve worked with :
- Electrical engineers
- Control engineers
- Chemists / materials specialists
- Public authorities
- Financial, marketing or sales colleagues
How you’ve used their skills and knowledge
Aiii Creativity and innovation:
developing your own ideas to produce
new solutions, designs or technological
approaches
Confirm suitability of new design
Show lateral thinking
Use a new and different approach
Draw from comparative situations
Make processes easier / streamlined
Aiv Scientific / technical evaluation
and optimisation
How do you:
Interpret the requirements?
Compare with the current situation?
Approach the evaluation?
Draw upon your chemical engineering
skills?
Aiv Scientific / technical evaluation
and optimisation
Examples:
Product quality measurement
Plant material and energy balances
Production trials for new operating
conditions / new product
Av Planning & execution of projects
Consider:
key outputs and priorities
actions and timeline
budget and resources
control and correction measures
B Wider implications
i Health, hazard and safety aspects
ii Sustainability aspects
iii Commercial and economic
aspects
Bi Handling health, hazard and safety
aspects
Risk & safety management / HAZOP study
Writing documentation
Reviewing hazardous areas
Design of safety systems
Compliance with legislation
Safety inspections
Day to day H&S, general good practice
Bii Handling sustainability aspects
Limiting impact on environmental /society
eg.
Reducing waste / emissions / noise
Impact assessments
Sustainability analysis
Adherence to legislation
Biii Handling commercial and
economic aspects
Economic evaluation of process/plant
Cost estimating
Tendering for bids
Managing budgets
C Interpersonal,
leadership and
communication skills
i Managing relationships
ii Leadership in a professional role
iii Communicating ideas formally
Ci Managing relationships
Managing challenges or conflict of opinion
Cultural awareness
Achieve objectives across teams
Manage personalities to influence
Cii Leadership in a professional role
Evidence of taking ownership and using
your personal drive, commitment and
enthusiasm to achieve results.
With junior staff / graduates
With peers in different disciplines
In your own activity
Ciii Communicating ideas formally
Technical report writing
Oral presentations to groups
How did you ensure that your
communication was effective?
2. Professional experience:
assessment
A: Application to
practical situations
B: Wider implications
C: Interpersonal skills
D: Professional conduct
E: Continuous
Professional
Development
Commitment
D Commitment to profession
Provide a 200 word (approx.) narrative,
consider:
Codes of conduct
Best practice
Supporting professional body;
school outreach ie whynotchemeng,
STEM
E Continuing Professional
Development
Complete a table:
CSci: 1 Section E
CEng: 1 Section E
CSci & CEng: 2 x Section E
E Continuing Professional
Development
Recent development
- past 1 to 3 years
Future plans
- next 12 months and beyond
Apply gap analysis to your own CPD
Internal appraisal/PDR records can
help
What is CPD?
In-house / external courses
IChemE Member or Subject Group
technical events
On-the-job learning
Secondments / shadowing
Moving departments / sector
Research / publishing
2. Professional experience:
assessment
Competence & Commitment
report
2. Professional experience:
assessment – confirmation section
Verifier:
More than one person
Familiar with your work
In a position of responsibility
Chartered
Chemical engineer
As much as possible (80-100%)
Electronic / paper
2. Professional experience:
assessment - support
Frequently asked questions
Report examples
Mentor
www.getchartered.org
How to Get Chartered
Chartered Chemical Engineer
What Why
1. Knowledge & understanding
Required level Assessment
2. Professional experience
Required level Assessment
3. Application
Process Assessment
3. Application
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3. Application
Personal and employment details
Academic qualifications + evidence
Experience – past and present
Referees
Supporting documents:
CV, photo ID
Competence & Commitment report &
Technical report (if relevant)
3. Application: assessment
Report Reference Report
review s interview
3. Application: assessment
Report review
Technical report (if relevant)
Competence & Commitment report
Assessed in confidence by one
Member (per report)
Feedback given if amplification
needed
3. Application: assessment
Report review
References
Two Chartered Chemical
Engineers: Member or Fellow
Ask permission
Similar to job reference
Contacted by email
3. Application: assessment
Report review
References
Interview(s)
Technical report (if relevant)
Competence & Commitment report
If both: same day, same interviewers
3. Application: assessment
Interview(s):
In confidence
2 Chartered Chemical Engineers
(Member or Fellow)
You organise date with interviewers
45 min - 1 hour
3. Application: assessment
Interview(s):
Based on your report – prepare
Provide additional evidence
Recent experience eg. promotions, research
Take / do diagrams etc if useful
How you solve problems, not outcome of work
3. Application: assessment
Support mechanisms:
Amendments to report can be made
Further interview may be conducted
Application open for 2 years
Constructive guidance given
3. Application: assessment
IChemE review of:
Report assessment(s)
References
Interview assessment(s)
Review panel is currently held every 2
months
Decision fed back within few days
Professional qualification
Profession
Knowledge & al
understanding experience
Required Required
level level
Get Chartered!
Every one is individually assessed.
If you have got the experience and
competence - get the professional
status and recognition to go with it!
If you haven’t got a Mentor and want one
to help review your report(s),
contact your local Members Group
Contact us:
Web: www.getchartered.org
Tel: +44 (0)1788 578 214
Email: [email protected]
