The Importance of the IEI

godtabh

Was just reading the IEI Annual.

Membership by Division is broken down as follows:

• Agriculture and Food 308
• Civil 10246
• Chemical & Process 950
• Energy & Environment 2635
• Fire & Safety 978
• Electrical & Electronic 4613
• Mechanical & Manufacturing 5605
• Extractive Industries 249
• Biomedical 737
• ICT 1008
• Local Government 1781
• Structures & Construction 3832

By local government is assume they mean engineers who site in on their ass in county council offices! (Joking).

I'm gona see if I can find a break down of who is chartered. If any one has that information post it up here.

On a site note I also see that there was a reduction in the amount of memberships compared to 2006 based on the 2007 figures

copacetic

slow day for your kearnsr to be reading that!?

sounds about right, loads of civil and structural and related area members.

Gave up my membership after 2 years out of college. Pointless. Haven't worked
with anyone who was a member in 9 years. Only people I know who are are some
civil and structural guys I'm still in touch with.

godtabh

All I'll say is that the IEI is used for suitable reading material in a certain room in the house

Shiny

So they want €400 a year for "suitable reading" ?

Surely you get more than that?

von Neumann

To be honest, the IEI is too weak and never amounted to much more than a talking shop.

Which is a pitty because we need stronger repersentation at all levels and IEI is too busy slapping it's own back and tell itself how wounderful it is.

Dundhoone

Not to mention organising all the golf outings.

Dundhoone

kearnsr wrote: »

By local government is assume they mean engineers who site in on their ass in county council offices! (Joking).

Hope you were on your holidays and not wasting your employers time at eleven thirty on a thursday........! (Joking)

Crash

Amazed at how poor the IEI job section is as well - surely they shouldnt be quite as half arsed as that

skinner2x

That magazine they send out is a joke. To be fair though, I did find them useful when seeking Sydney Accord accredition for an Aussie visa...

godtabh

Dundhoone wrote: »

Hope you were on your holidays and not wasting your employers time at eleven thirty on a thursday........! (Joking)

Since it was 11:30 in the evening the only time I was wasting was my own!

and i was on holidays. Still am. Posting this from a hammock on a beach Caye Caulker. Engineers have it good!

mathias

Gave up my membership after 2 years out of college. Pointless. Haven't worked with anyone who was a member in 9 years.

I let it slide 3 years after college , and that was 2 years too long. A newsletter and the option of cheap car insurance were the only " benefits" I ever saw.
I dont know anyone who has kept it up , its a pointless waste of a no small amount of money.

PattheMetaller

mathias wrote: »

I let it slide 3 years after college , and that was 2 years too long. A newsletter and the option of cheap car insurance were the only " benefits" I ever saw.
I dont know anyone who has kept it up , its a pointless waste of a no small amount of money.

I've cancelled my membership. The cheap car insurance was the reason I joined many years ago when o a provisional license. The car insurance is only €49 dearer without IEI membership so do the maths:D

Do companies not normally pay for membership of one organisation?

pauln

Myth wrote: »

Do companies not normally pay for membership of one organisation?

Mine does anyway, it's sort of a requirement.

I think the Engineer's journal isn't to bad a magazine, they have been improving the content in areas other then civil. I was a member of ASME there for a while, now there is a terrible magazine.

mathias

Do companies not normally pay for membership of one organisation?

The large american multinationals that I tend to end up working for used to , but not anymore , benefits and perks are usually first to go when it comes to economising and cutbacks.

The_boat

Just wondering if anyone has changed their minds on the IEI. I'm out of college 3 years and want to get chartered now. I dont think they are too bad an organisation.
I'm a Chemical Engineering by degree did some engineering at the start but i'm sort of a paperwork validation engineer in a pharma company now
- any advice