Chartered Engineer (Ceng)

We need to check your academic profile to ensure that it meets the benchmark for registration. You can use our Qualifications checker or contact our Membership team to check your qualifications.

If you have used our Qualifications checker to confirm you meet the academic requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer and you haven't already registered with the Engineering Council as a CEng, you can apply online or submit a paper-based application (editable PDF). Read our Chartered and Incorporated Engineers Application Guidance.

If you are on our Monitored Professional Development Schemes (MPDS), you should submit an application via the MPDS route. Find out how to apply using the MPDS route.

If you are already professionally registered with another institution, find out how you can join us using a very straightforward process.

You will need two sponsors to agree to sponsor your application and sign your application.

Applicants for CEng must be sponsored by one Chartered Engineer. Sponsors can be registered with any Engineering Council-listed professional engineering institution; they don’t have to be one of our Members. Your second sponsor could be another registered engineer, or your line manager. Your sponsor can’t be a direct family member.

Once you have completed and proof read your application form, you will need to submit it to us with any application fees and any supporting documents required.

If you are on our Monitored Professional Development Schemes (MPDS), you should submit an application via the MPDS route.

Once we have processed your papers, we will invite you to attend a professional review interview, you can select your preferred interview location on your application form, virtual, face-to-face, Armed Forces or internationally.

You will need to contact us to confirm your availability for interview. If you don’t, your application may be delayed.

The professional review interview is a mandatory part of the membership process. Every Chartered Engineer, regardless of their discipline, has to attend an interview.

The interviewers will focus on your most recent and relevant experience. They will make their judgements based solely on the information provided in your application and your performance during the interview.

The interview will take approximately 45 minutes.

Once you have completed your interview, your assessors will make one of two recommendations, elect to membership, or not.

If you are successful, you will receive a letter and a certificate from our President and Chief Executive confirming your achievement. Your name will then be forwarded to the Engineering Council for Registration.

Your name will be published on the Engineering Council website on the first Thursday of the following March, June, September or December.

If your application is not successful, we will write to you and explain the reason for the decision. You will also be given some guidance as to how you may wish to address the concerns raised, in order to resubmit your papers at a later date.

Any applicant can request a copy of their interview paperwork, scores and feedback.

We have an arbitration and appeals process, whereby applicants who are dissatisfied with the process may appeal within a given timeframe.