16 Elements Of Engineers Australia Competency Standards

 Are you an experienced engineer with a keen desire to get yourself registered as a Chartered Professional Engineer? If yes, then you must have a little idea of the Engineers Australia Competency standards. If you want to know more about it, read this article.

Here, we will familiarize you with all 16 elements of competency standards. So, give your undivided attention to this article. However, you should first know what the Stage 2 Competency standard is.

What are Stage 2 Engineers Australia competency standards?

The Engineers Australia Stage 2 standard is the brief knowledge and skills that are based on engineering application capabilities, values, and professional indicators. It is also important for practiced independent and unsupervised engineering throughout the country. Stage 2 competency levels have been developed for Engineers Australia Chartered membership (CEng). Not limited to this, one will also attain registration with National Engineering Register (NER).

16 Stage 2 Engineers Australia Competency Standards:

The following are the 16 elements of Australian engineering competency standards stage 2:

1.   Practise competently

2.   Deal with ethical issues

3.   Develop sustainable and safe solutions

4.   Responsibility for engineering activities

5.   Engage with the related community and stakeholders

6.   Fulfill legal and regulatory needs

7.   Identify, evaluate and handle risks

8.   Taking action

9.   Performance

10.                Communication

11.                Evaluation

12.                Creativity and innovation

13.                Advanced engineering knowledge

14.                Judgement

15.                Problem analysis

16.                Local engineering knowledge

Expectations from an experienced professional engineer:

The community has some expectations from experienced professional engineers, their ability, how they use this ability, and how they will behave. Let’s know these expectations. An experienced professional engineer:

1.   Understands the needs of broad-ranging stakeholders, clients, and society as a whole.

2.   Interacts effectively with other disciplines, professions, and people.

3.   Works to improve social, environmental, and economic outcomes over the full lifetime of the engineering program or product.

4.   Makes sure that the engineering contribution is properly integrated into the totality of the program, project, or process responsible for.

5.   Interprets technological possibilities to business, society, and government.

6.   Makes sure, as much as they can that policy decisions are properly informed by consequences and possibilities.

7.   Ensures that risks, costs, and limits are properly understood in the context of the desirable outcomes.

8.   Brings knowledge to bear from multiple sources to develop solutions to complicated issues and problems.

9.   Ensures that technical and non-technical considerations are properly integrated.

10.                Handles risks and sustainability issues.

11.                Makes sure that all aspects of a program, project, or process are based on theory and fundamental principles.

12.                Understands clearly the way new developments relate to established practice and experience and to other disciplines with which they may interact.

Although the engineering outcomes generally have physical forms, the work of experienced professional engineers recognizes the interaction between technology and people. Professional Engineers may do research this is related to advancing the science of engineering and to developing new principles and technologies with a wide engineering discipline.

Alternatively, they may contribute to the education of an engineer, continual improvement in the engineering practice, and to devising and updating the standards and codes governing it.