Our role as regulator

Standards do not raise themselves

Engineering must keep moving forward - and so must the standards that support it.

As the UK regulatory body for the engineering profession, we work with professional engineering institutions, industry and engineers themselves to raise standards, respond to change and help ensure engineering remains trusted, responsible and fit for the future.

Operating as a charity under Royal Charter, we deliver public benefit by advancing standards across a growing community of engineering professionals. We do this by protecting the integrity of the profession, connecting institutions and individuals, and providing trusted knowledge and an independent perspective.

We raise standards by:

• Setting, upholding and advancing standards for engineering competence and commitment across the UK engineering profession.
• Licensing professional engineering institutions to assess individuals for professional registration and recognise programmes of learning and development
• Holding and growing the national Register of professionally registered engineers and technicians who have demonstrated these recognised standards.

Everything we do supports a profession that is competent, accountable and committed to continuous professional development. In turn, this helps protect people, supports responsible and sustainable development, and builds confidence in engineering today and for the future.

The Engineering Council is governed by a Board of Trustees, comprising representatives from our Licensed professional engineering institutions together with independent members who bring wider expertise and oversight to the effective regulation of the profession.

Through all of this, we help ensure employers, clients, policymakers and the public can have confidence in the competence, integrity and commitment of professionally registered engineers and technicians.