Engineering profession qualifications

A. Guanini, Higher education and the engineering profession in Italy The Scuole of Milan and Turin, 1859-1914 , Minerva, 26 (1988), 512-548 and ibid, Academic qualifications and professional functions in the development of the Italian engineering schools, 1859-1914 , in R. Fox and A. Guanini eds.. Education, Technology and Industrial Performance in Europe, 1850-1939 (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 171-195. 

Engineering Coundl. (2004). UK standards for professioned engineering competence The accreditation of higher education programs. Available at http //www.engc.oig.uk/profes-sional-qualifications/standards/UK-SPEC. Accessed November 11, 2013. 

The third and lowest tier of the profession is that of Engineering Technician (Eng.Tech.). Until 1984 this route of entry required that candidates were at least 21, had an academic qualification of a standard not lower than an ONC or a City and Guilds Part II final technician certificate, and a minimum of three years engineering experience of which two must have been devoted to practical training. Under the current system there is again a three-stage process of registration. The... 

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