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: members@icheme.org