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Find the route that applies to you

Answer a few questions about your education, your registration and how you are gaining experience, and see which routes are worth investigating.

Who this is for:Candidates at any stage

There are several ways to reach the same Professional Review. Which one applies depends on your education, whether you are already registered, and how you have been gaining experience.

Route finder

Answer what applies. You can leave anything you are unsure of blank — the result will simply tell you it is an open question.

7 questions

  1. 01Which registration are you working towards?

    Both are full professional registrations. The route, the educational requirement and the review format all differ.

  2. 02Are you already professionally registered, anywhere?

    Existing registration can serve as evidence of IPD completion, and may open a recognition route.

  3. 03Are you applying as a civil engineer or an infrastructure engineer?

    The attributes and the review are the same. The administration differs — including how the application is submitted.

  4. 04Where does your educational base stand?

    This is the stage that most often delays an otherwise ready candidate, and every way of fixing a shortfall takes months.

  5. 05How are you completing, or how did you complete, your IPD?

    IPD must be formally complete and registered with ICE before a Professional Review application will be accepted.

  6. 06How much responsibility have you held, honestly?

    This is not about years. It is about whether you can point to decisions that were yours.

  7. 07Do you have sponsors in mind?

    Finding a lead sponsor is the single most common cause of a delayed application.

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Routes to the same Professional ReviewFour ways of satisfying the educational base lead into three ways of completing initial professional development, and all of them lead to the same Professional Review and to registration as IEng MICE or CEng MICE.EDUCATIONAL BASE — ANY ONE OF THESEAccredited qualificationAcademic AssessmentFurther LearningTechnical Report RouteINITIAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT — ANY ONE OF THESEICE Training AgreementApproved Employer, an SCE, IPD Online, TrainingReviewMentor-supported trainingRegistered through IPD Online with an ICEmentorCareer AppraisalSelf-managed experience, assessed by ICE froma reportProfessional ReviewPresentation · interview · Communication Task · both reviewers must agreeIEng MICECEng MICE
The routes converge. Whichever way you complete IPD, the review is the same.

If the answer is not obvious

Several situations genuinely sit outside a questionnaire. Contact ICE directly if you are: already registered CEng or IEng through another Engineering Council licensed institution; professionally qualified with a mutual recognition partner; a registered IntPE; a registered Professional Engineer with the Idaho State Board of Engineers; or a Senior Engineer level 2 member of the Ordem dos Engenheiros. In those cases you may be able to apply by a recognition route, or be exempt from Career Appraisal — ICE's guidance names erp@ice.org.uk for advice, and asks for your CV and the details of your professional qualification.

Similarly, if you have completed the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers Training Scheme A in the civil or geotechnical discipline and hold a qualification recognised for the CEng educational base, ICE's guidance says to apply directly for Chartered Professional Review rather than doing a Career Appraisal first.

What ICE says about choosing between routes

Institution of Civil Engineers

  • You cannot apply for a Career Appraisal while you are undertaking an ICE Training Agreement, or are registered on IPD Online for mentor-supported training, or are on HKIE Training Scheme A in the civil or geotechnical discipline. Contact career.appraisals@ice.org.uk for advice on your options.
  • If you hold no academic qualifications at all, ICE directs you to make a stage 1 application for the Technical Report Route instead.
  • If you are already professionally qualified elsewhere, you may be eligible to apply by a recognition route or be exempt from Career Appraisal.
  • EngTech MICE applicants do not need to do a Career Appraisal.

From Career Appraisal Guidance, Institution of Civil Engineers.

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