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IStructE

  • 25-07-2008 7:06am
    #1
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    Morning all,

    I've been having a look around at various engineering bodies such as Engineers Ireland, ICE and IStructE. Just wondering if anyone here is a member of IStructE, and would there be any benefit to having said membership? From chatting to a few people the ICE membership gives you a lot of information weekly (newsletters etc.) compared to the (I)EI membership that I have at the moment.

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Their chatership exames is one of the hardest things you'll ever do from what I've been told.

    I had a look the papers one year. Put me off totally.

    Some people get chartered withe the IEI and transfer their membership.


  • #3
    Irjudge1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭Irjudge1


    kearnsr wrote: »
    Their chatership exames is one of the hardest things you'll ever do from what I've been told.

    I had a look the papers one year. Put me off totally.

    Some people get chartered withe the IEI and transfer their membership.


    Can't transfer to full membership of the IStructE. Only way to gain full membership is by passing the Part 3 exam.

    7 hours open book exam with a number of structural scenarios which must be designed for basic scheme layout and commentry on relevent issues also potential for a future extension or adjustment to the structure is required.


  • #4
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Irjudge1 wrote: »
    Can't transfer to full membership of the IStructE. Only way to gain full membership is by passing the Part 3 exam.

    7 hours open book exam with a number of structural scenarios which must be designed for basic scheme layout and commentry on relevent issues also potential for a future extension or adjustment to the structure is required.

    Some one was telling lies then.

    If your a structural engineer its the one you should get


  • #5
    Tails142
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭Tails142


    What you can do is become a chartered member of IEI and pay your subscriptions to them. Then when you feel ready there is an agreement betweem IEI and IstructE that your courses (CPD) done through IEI will be enough to qualify you to sit the exam for IStructE. You also get a slightly reduced fee for the exam I believe.

    So I dont think you have to sit the profesional review interview with the IStructE once you've done it with IEI. I think the most sensible path therefore is to stay a member of IEI and attend their CPD and then after getting chartership with IEI attain chartership with IStructE if you feel it will be important for your career.

    The only downside to this is that you wont be getting the monthly Structural Engineer magazine... though there may be a way to subscribe to it.

    And also there arent very many technical courses aimed at strucutral held by the IEI, so if you do decide to head over to london to do IStructE courses you'll be paying a slightly higher rate, although hopefully it'll be your company paying that ;)

    I know myself I was very keen to get chartership with the IStructE but its just that with the way my career has gone, doing mostly civils stuff I dont think I'd have the technical knowledge to pass the IStructE chartership exam :eek:


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