Engineering Council

Engineering is a highly mobile profession. Therefore, Engineering Council registration is open to anyone who can demonstrate that they meet the UK Standard of Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC), regardless of nationality or location.

The aim of our international activity is to ensure that Engineering Council standards are globally recognized and facilitate the international mobility of engineering professionals.

To fulfill this aim we are:

• The UK partner in the International Engineering Alliance (IEA), ENGINEERS EUROPE (formerly FEANI)  and the European Network for the Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE)
• The UK signatory to international engineering education agreements known as the Dublin Accord, Sydney Accord and Washington Accord
• The holder of the UK Section of the International Registers of Professional Engineers (IntPE), Engineering Technologists (IntET) and Engineering Technicians (IntETn).
• The UK National Member of FEANI, responsible for:
  • Receiving applications for European Engineer (EUR ING) registration
  • Submitting accredited engineering programmes to the European Engineering Education Database (EEED, previously the FEANI INDEX)
• The UK’s authorised agency for award of the EUR-ACE® label to accredited first and second cycle engineering education programmes.

There are numerous national, regional and international engineering organisations. The Engineering Council has relationships with many of these, either directly or indirectly through the professional engineering institutions and other partner organisations.

The Engineering Council has been working to understand and establish the potential consequences of Brexit on the recognition of professional registration in the EU and more details are available on our Brexit transition page.

The EngC moved to Dublin Accord (DA) conditional signatory status on 13 June 2024. EngTech programmes for which a decision was made to approve or accredit after that date would not be recognised under the DA by other signatories. This includes reapprovals of currently approved programmes.

This situation is temporary and our conditional status will be reassessed in 2026. For the Engineering Council to regain full signatory status we need to arrange for DA reviewers to observe PEI programme recognition activities for EngTech.

For more information please see the links below: