If you become an IMechE Fellow, then you will attain the recognition that you are a professional engineer who is working in a senior role with major autonomy and responsibility.
It is the highest level of membership and shows your competency in the form of experience, commitment, and contribution to engineering.
Why you should become an IMechE Fellow:
You will have the following benefits by attaining the status of (FIMechE), which is given to a fellow:
Recognition:
· Achieve international recognition for your knowledge and experience
· Have more exposure to new career opportunities.
· Raise your engineering profile and encourage young engineers
· Offer thought leadership
· Have a better long-term earning potential using recognition of your experience and competence
Make new relationships:
· Have connections with members of the institution worldwide
· Make profitable working relationships with other experts in your engineering field
· Be able to influence positively and support young members
· Volunteer to help IMechE via your region, industry, or through particular activities
Have access to IMechE resources:
· Have access to read member-only specialist engineering news, features, and expert comment by Professional Engineering
· Get mail updates from your region or industry or interest group
· Access to a global-level engineering library
· Access to practical and financial help through its benevolent fund (Support Network)
Who can apply for a Fellow?
Generally, A Fellow is a professional engineer who is working in a senior role with major autonomy and responsibility. The professional can show the following qualities:
Essential:
· A position with senior responsibility or/and major autonomy in your particular field
· Ability to show leadership qualities
· Capability of influencing strategy and policy-making decisions in either a business or technical environment
· The promotion of engineering to your engineers and probable engineers
· A structured approach to CPD (Continuing Professional Development) explaining both how you have developed your CPD in your career to date and the way you plan your future CPD
Desirable:
· Expert knowledge in a specific engineering area
· Engineering or technical resource management or/and personnel management and development
Optional:
· Responsibility for a budget and the related risk
· Use of a major range of fundamental principles and complicated techniques across a broad and often unpredictable variety of contexts
· Active use and development of new technologies in engineering and related areas at the senior level
Start your application:
You can apply to upgrade to IMechE membership as a Fellow if you are a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Engineering Technician (EngTech), or Incorporated Engineer (IEng) member. Apart from that, you can apply directly to Fellowship, which requires you to fill in a more detailed application.
If not registered as a CEng, EngTech, or IEng, then you need the following:
If not already registered as an Incorporated Engineer, Chartered Engineer or Engineering Technician, the authority will have to evaluate you against the competency requirements for one of these registration types as part of your application for Fellowship.
Your application for Fellowship and registration will need to have:
· A completed Direct Fellow CEng or Direct Fellow IEng application form. Here, you have to show how you fulfill the competency and Fellow requirements.
· Supporting documents, like proof of qualifications.
· Signatures of two sponsors (on the application form. One of your sponsors has to be a Fellow.
· An application fee.
