Questions about Engineers Australia CDR

[Insiya Challawala]

Hello members,

 

I am in the process of preparing CDR to get my skills assessed. I am mostly done with the CEs but now stuck at the Summary Statement. I have a 4 year Bachelor degree in Electronics and Communication and have been working in the Semicinductor-IT field for 5+ years.

My work mainly involves programming for ASIC verification purpose.

 

I am confused whether I should prepare the Summary Statement as a Professional Engineer or Engineering Technologist. I would appreciate if you could give your opinion on the same.

 

Thanks in anticipation

Insiya

[MiM]

Try to find definitions of technologist and p.eng. in EA booklet and compare them to your work experience.

[Insiya Challawala]

Try to find definitions of technologist and p.eng. in EA booklet and compare them to your work experience.

 

If I compare my work experience to the MSA booklet definitions, I am more inclined to apply as an E.T. But I read in a couple of posts that a 4 year degree holder should rather go for P.E.

 

-I

[MiM]

There have been cases where people applied as ETs and later they have been asked by EA if they would like to be recognized as PEs according to the facts from their applications.

[toOZ2012]

Hello members,

 

I am in the process of preparing CDR to get my skills assessed. I am mostly done with the CEs but now stuck at the Summary Statement. I have a 4 year Bachelor degree in Electronics and Communication and have been working in the Semicinductor-IT field for 5+ years.

My work mainly involves programming for ASIC verification purpose.

 

I am confused whether I should prepare the Summary Statement as a Professional Engineer or Engineering Technologist. I would appreciate if you could give your opinion on the same.

 

Thanks in anticipation

Insiya

 

You should apply as a Professional Engineer very likely as an Electronics Engineer. Do you use proper verification languages or general purposes programming languages?

 

PS: Make sure your summary statement covers all aspects of PE assessment.

[Insiya Challawala]

You should apply as a Professional Engineer very likely as an Electronics Engineer. Do you use proper verification languages or general purposes programming languages?

 

PS: Make sure your summary statement covers all aspects of PE assessment.

 

Hi toOz,

 

Yes, I use the verification language System Verilog extensively.

 

Actually speaking, I found most of the elements similar in both ET and PE summary statements.

 

I am a bit confused on this one => "Application of established engineering methods to complex engineering problem solving"

 

Not sure what is expected out of "established engineering method" here. Could you give an example that could nudge me forward please.

 

-I

[toOZ2012]

Can't remember what I put in mine, it's been so long but you should be able to find some template CDRs online. Good luck.

[MiM]

Why don't you go ahead and ask EA for advice? They are kinda slow but they do answer emails and if you are in a hurry maybe you can give them a call.

[toOZ2012]

Actually, I just looked up my summary statement and it looks to be different to the current one. Without spending anymore time, my guess for what you asked would be:

 

Use of mathematical techniques to model and solve complex engineering problems.

[Insiya Challawala]

@toOz - Ah I see! I do need more brainstorming here I guess.

@MiM - Thanks. I didn't know we could directly ask EA for help. If that is the case, I would try to get in touch with them today.

 

-I

[Insiya Challawala]

Here I go..This doc elaborates each element

 

http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/shado/Education/Program%20Accreditation/110318%20Stage%201%20Professional%20Engineer.pdf

[Insiya Challawala]

By the way, ideally how many words do they expect us to write when summarizing each competency element?

[toOZ2012]

3 to 4 sentences on average should do it.

[Insiya Challawala]

Great! Thanks

[ptlabs]

By the way, ideally how many words do they expect us to write when summarizing each competency element?

 

It's always about quality, never about quantity :-)

 

Good luck!

 

Regards

Peter

[toOZ2012]

It's always about quality, never about quantity :-)

 

Good luck!

 

Regards

Peter

 

Can't really make the qualitative vs quantitative distinction when each element is only a few sentences It's essentially bullet point covering relevant parts of the CDR.

 

BTW, just visited your website. Do you provide CDR writing services from verbal descriptions of projects done? I know a guy who will easily qualify for offshore migration but is just too lazy to write CDRs.

[ptlabs]

BTW, just visited your website. Do you provide CDR writing services from verbal descriptions of projects done? I know a guy who will easily qualify for offshore migration but is just too lazy to write CDRs.

 

The CDR applicant must be the author of the CDR.

 

I do not provide services that are unlawful, if that's what you are asking

 

Regards

Peter

[toOZ2012]

The CDR applicant must be the author of the CDR.

 

I do not provide services that are unlawful, if that's what you are asking

 

Regards

Peter

 

I don't believe that it is unlawful when the CDR reports are based on actual work done by the applicant. It's a bit like resume writing service, the information needs to be put in the right format based on the applicant's actual career history etc.