Engineering Registration
Engineering Council Registration
The Institute of Acoustics is one of several professional bodies licensed by the Engineering Council to register members as professional engineers.
Acoustical engineers work in fields as diverse as acoustic material manufacturing, acoustic signature recognition and reduction, active noise and vibration control, aerospace engineering, architectural acoustical design, enclosure and sound attenuator design, loudspeaker design, measurement and analysis instrumentation, sonar systems, speech recognition, mobile telephone design, vehicle noise control and vibration isolation.
Through our Engineering Division, suitably qualified and experienced engineers may gain this internationally-recognised award.
For CEng and IEng registration, candidates are required to present evidence of their professional development and responsible experience for consideration at interview. Members may draw on our on-line services for support in developing, recording and authenticating their professional development in preparation for the Professional Review Interview. There are two routes - the "standard route" for those holding an accredited engineering degree listed on the Engineering Council website http://www.engc.org.uk/registration/acad/search.aspx - and the "individual route" for those holding degrees in related subjects such as physics, or unaccredited engineering degrees. Many of the successful Institute of Acoustics registrants are graduates of one of the acoustical engineering degree courses at ISVR at Southampton University or Salford University.
Because of the nature of the acoustical engineering profession, the Institute recognises that many of its members seeking CEng or IEng registration will need guidance and assistance in developing the evidence to demonstrate that they satisfy both the educational and the professional development requirements. Members seeking advice should contact the Institute at acousticsengineering@ioa.org.uk.
Members seeking to achieve registration are given personal advice and support through the process. Interviews are carried out under the Engineering Council UK-SPEC procedures, which require more work by candidates in preparation, but also make the process more straightforward by setting very clear criteria for the assessment of professional experience. http://www.engc.org.uk/ukspec/default.aspx provides further details and a downloadable PDF file for professional engineer requirements.