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Updated guide helps people plan their professional engineering careers
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Updated guide helps people plan their professional engineering careers

The Engineering Council has published its Guide to Professional Registration for 2026–2027, providing the latest guidance on how engineers and technicians can achieve professional registration and demonstrate their commitment to high standards. The guide also brings together information on all Licensed Professional Engineering Institutions (LPEIs) and Professional Affiliates (PAs), helping readers find the organisation that best supports their professional journey.

Agreement with Italy strengthens professional recognition
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Agreement with Italy strengthens professional recognition

In June this year, Engineering Council’s CEO, Paul Bailey, and Chair, John Chudley, attended a two day international summit, in Salerno, Italy. The second ENAEE – European Accreditation Agencies’ Summit focused on advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) within engineering education and accreditation processes.

Engineering Council awards licence to dedicated cyber security body CIISec
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Engineering Council awards licence to dedicated cyber security body CIISec

New pathway highlights the growing importance of professional competence, ethics and engineering judgment in cyber security. The Engineering Council and the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) have announced that CIISec has become the first body dedicated to cyber security to be licensed by the Engineering Council to assess candidates for professional registration.

Engineering Council first joint webinar
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Engineering Council first joint webinar

This October, the Engineering Council will be joined by the Science Council and Society for the Environment (SocEnv) for a first-ever collaborative webinar examining the value of professional registration across engineering, science and environmental practice.

Pioneering Low-Carbon Concrete Innovation Wins 2026 Hawley Award
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Pioneering Low-Carbon Concrete Innovation Wins 2026 Hawley Award

Dr Fragkoulis Kanavaris CEng CSci CEnv FIMMM FICT CAPM has been awarded the 2026 Hawley Award, which includes a £5,000 cash prize and a medal, at the Engineers Trust Awards Dinner in June. The award honours the most outstanding engineering innovation that delivers demonstrable benefit to the environment and will help to achieve Net Zero Carbon by at least 2050.

Christina Jasper IEng IET wins 2026 Baroness Platt of Writtle Award
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Christina Jasper IEng IET wins 2026 Baroness Platt of Writtle Award

The Engineering Council would like to congratulate Christina Jasper IEng MIET, an Aerospace Engineer and Senior Technical Specialist, on receiving the 2026 Baroness Platt of Writtle Award and £1,000 cash prize. The announcement was made at the Engineers Trust Awards Dinner in June and presented by HRH The Princess Royal.