Our partnership with the IET goes from strength to strength

We have been in partnership with the IET for 30 years.

I am delighted to announce that the Institution of Engineering and Technology has today confirmed accreditation of the School of Engineering’s portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, re-affirming our 30-year strong partnership with this leading professional body.

Following a visit by a panel of IET accreditors in October 2017, the IET’s Academic Accreditation Committee have accepted the panel’s recommendation to continue the accreditation of our established BEng and BSc courses for the next five years. This means that all our students will graduate with the necessary education requirements to begin working towards professional registration as an Incorporated Engineer (IEng) or Chartered Engineer (CEng) when they start working in the engineering industry.

We hope that in time, our new four-year MEng courses will be similarly accredited once the IET has been able to review the work of the first cohort of MEng graduates.

The IET represents 168,000 members in 150 countries and works to engineer a better world, inspiring the next generation of engineers and informing the wider engineering community. These goals are very much shared by everyone in the School of Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan. We are very proud of our partner status with the IET and of the important work we do to teach and inspire the engineers of tomorrow.

Our partnership with the IET benefits everyone in the School, not least our students, as Jake Godfrey, IET Academic Account Manager says:

The IET’s Academic Partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University serves as a best practice model for others. The automatic membership sign-up is a very easy way to ensure students make the most of their IET student membership from the beginning of their journey, which then guides them through into industry as early career engineers. Embedding Career Manager into the syllabus is also a brilliant way for students to collate experience and their continued professional development (CPD), eventually leading to a professional registration application.

We are proud to call Manchester Metropolitan University an IET Academic Partner and they provide a great way of working which showcases the IET’s benefits to the university and its students.

In fact, our students were among the first in the UK to use the IET’s online career-planning tool, IET Career Manager, in an assessed part of their course. This is exactly the same career-planning tool used by engineers already working in industry to track their continuing professional development. So engineering employers know it well – and our students will be able to keep using and building on it during their studies and after they graduate.

Here in the School of Engineering, we take great pride in the high standards we set ourselves in teaching and research. Our students work on live industry projects which involve solving current, real-world engineering challenges – a great preparation for their professional career ahead. It’s because of our strong links to the engineering industry that we can offer these live projects.

We are delighted that the IET continues to accredit our degree courses and that our students benefit from our partnership with the Institution. We’re confident that the preparation our students will have for their future engineering career is second to none.

Prof Andy Gibson

Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Science and Engineering