Achieving CEng and CPhys: My Story

[SteveeGeorge]

Hi all,

I hope someone can enlighten me.

I have just recently graduated (2016) with an MSci Physics degree, and landed my first job as an engineer. The company specializes in manufacturing of infrared optics. Its a very small company but currently getting excellent experience. I've been here for approx 5-6 Months.

As the title of this thread suggests, I'm ambitious to obtain charter-ship for both engineering and physics. I consider it my next career goal to make. Since my career path follows an engineering agenda, I'm confident the CEng title will present itself especially if I am working hard towards it.

However, I am stuck on how to achieve the CPhys title if I'm always in a engineering role. The Institute of Physics description of it I found quite vague. Do I need to be in a research environment? Can I practice Physics in my own time and still get the charter-ship? Does attacking physics related problems in an engineering role count towards a charter-ship? I do not know any chartered engineers or physicists, thus no advice on how to approach this.

If anyone could enlighten me and/or give me advice towards setting out to achieve this, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

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[Choppy]

I don't know if this will help you much, but the https://www.cap.ca/en/careers/pphys-certification, which I suspect is similar. They have a lot of information about the requirements. They are quite liberal from what I remember.