APPLICATION FORM for EngTech
REGISTRATION (and RAeS MEMBERSHIP)
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This form should be used by all applicants applying for EngTech registration, including existing RAeS members, those applying to up-grade their
membership and non-members applying for Membership.
Separate forms are available for other grades of registration. Go to
http://www.aerosociety.com/Professional-Recognition
Applicants for membership only should use the Application Form for Membership: http://aerosociety.com/Membership/whichmembership
Complete the form electronically in black and print for signing.
Please print the documents on one side only of A4 paper. Do not staple or bind the documents.
See the Step by Step Guide to Registration for information on the process. Go to http://www.aerosociety.com/Professional-Recognition and
information on membership: http://aerosociety.com/Membership/whichmembership
SECTION A – PERSONAL DETAILS
1A. RAeS MEMBERSHIP
If already a member, please give membership number and grade:
Grade:
If not already a member or applying to upgrade, please tick the grade of membership you wish to apply for:
☐ ARAeS ☐ AMRAeS
☐ MRAeS ☐ FRAeS
1B. ENGINEERING COUNCIL REGISTRATION
Visit http://www.aerosociety.com/Professional-Recognition for details of the documentation that needs to accompany this application
together with the venues and dates for Professional Review (PR) interviews.
In some circumstances a Professional Review Interview may be required. Please indicate your preferred venue and date for the
PR Interview (see available venues/dates at http://aerosociety.com/Professional-Recognition/Registration/prof-rev-interv):
2. APPLICANT DETAILS
TITLE (and rank, if applicable):
FIRST NAME(S):
SURNAME (FAMILY NAME):
DATE OF BIRTH:
Designations (letters after your name, e.g. BSc, MEng, OBE)
Gender:☐ Male
Job title
☐Female
Company grade (if applicable)
Home address
Tick if preferred address for correspondence ☐
Post/zip code:
Home email address:
Home telephone no:
Country:
3. EMPLOYER DETAILS (if applicable)
Employer Name
Employer address
Tick if preferred address for correspondence
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Post/zip code:
Work email address:
Country
Work telephone no:
Mobile telephone no:
Membership No
Grade
Route
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4. QUALIFICATIONS
Visit http://www.aerosociety.com/Professional-Recognition for guidance on the range of qualifications and experience for membership
and registration.
Please list all relevant post-school qualifications (i.e. courses of 6 months duration or longer). Attach copies of academic or
professional qualification certificates and transcripts. Please provide translations in English, where appropriate.
Start Date
End Date
Course/Qualification Title
Educational Establishment
Classification
FT/PT/SW/Distance Learning
5. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME AND/OR TRAINING COURSE(S) (please DO NOT submit certificates)
Start Date
End Date
1) Title of professional development scheme and company name;
2) Title of training course(s) and awarding organisation(s)
6. RELEVANT CAREER HISTORY (please insert a full CV here detailing all relevant roles and responsibilities. If applying to upgrade
your membership, please clearly indicate your achievements since obtaining membership)
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7. PROFESSIONAL REFEREES
Membership application: two referees known to you in a professional capacity (e.g. a member of the Society or a line manager). The
Society reserves the right to contact them about any statement in the application.
Fellowship application: both referees should be Fellows of the Society (or hold a similar level of membership in another professional
body).
Registration application: One of the referees should be a registered engineer (if possible), have worked with you on your application and
sign the Referee’s Declaration below.
Referee 1
Referee 2
FRAeS No:
FRAeS No:
Referee name:
Job title and employer:
Address and email address:
Numbers of years known to you:
Grade
of
membership
and
professional body to which s/he
belongs:
Capacity in which you know the
referee:
Sponsors for Fellowship please
give Fellowship number:
8. REFEREE’S DECLARATION
I confirm I am one of the referees listed in this application form, and I have known the applicant for a minimum of one year. I have worked
with the applicant to prepare, discuss and review all the information contained in this application, and supporting documentation,
including the Qualifying Report below and, to the best of my knowledge, all the information provided is correct. In addition, I confirm that I
have seen the original certificates of the qualifications listed in 4 above.
Referee’s Signature:
EngC Registration
applicable):
level
(if
EngC Registrant no (if applicable):
Engineering Institution through which you are registered (if
applicable):
Print name:
Date:
9. APPLICANT’S DECLARATION
I certify that the information contained in this form and any accompanying documentation is correct. I agree that in the event of my election
to any class of membership of the Society and, if appropriate, to the EngC Register of Professional Engineers, I will be bound by the
Society’s Charter, By-Laws and Code of Professional Conduct and will further the objectives of the Society as far as shall be within my
power during such time as I remain a member. I accept the Society reserves the right to expel me if any of the information in this form and
any accompanying documentation are found to be falsified.
Applicant’s Signature:
Print name:
Date:
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SECTION B – REGISTRATION INFORMATION
10. QUALIFYING REPORT AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS
Please complete in full the Qualifying Report (QR) on the following pages. In addition, please attach copies of all your
qualifications including any licences held and a Notification of Performance for HND/HNC qualifications. For nonaccredited qualifications please provide a transcript of successfully completed modules. A certified translation of these
documents should be included for qualifications that are not in English. Legal evidence of any change to your surname
should be provided if your name has changed since you obtained the qualifications.
As applications for registration are scanned it is essential that you ensure that:
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all documents are printed in black, on one side only, unstapled and unbound.
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any charts or other documents on A3 paper are reduced to A4 size
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you bring a copy of your application/QR when you attend your PR interview (if applicable), together with any
documents you may wish to refer to as supporting evidence. NB For Military candidates who hold Letters of
Authority for any aspect of your appointment, it is essential that you bring these to the PRI.
When completing the QR the column Project Name/Evidence Reference should be used to identify the relevant item(s) in
your list of appointments/CV to which the evidence of competence relates.
Exemplars of completed reports can be found on the Society’s website: http://aerosociety.com/ProfessionalRecognition/Registration/stepbystep-guide The exemplars include appropriate evidence to demonstrate competences
and commitment.
There is specific guidance available on the website for Military, MOD Civilian and Academic applicants.
What happens after the Society receives your application?
 An email will be sent to confirm receipt of your application and the non-refundable administration fees will be collected.
Additional information may be requested, if necessary.
 Applications for membership and registration are considered by separate committees meeting approximately every
two months. Visit http://www.aerosociety.com/Professional-Recognition for application closing dates and the
corresponding committee dates.
 Where the Membership Committee approves the grade of membership applied for, a confirmation email is sent within
two weeks of the committee meeting with notification of the annual subscription fee that will be deducted from the card
shown in Section 8 above. The certificates of election are sent to successful applicants and the names of elected
members are published in the Society’s magazine.
 Where the Registration Committee approves EngTech registration, subject to a successful PR interview, an email is
sent within 2 weeks of the Registration Committee meeting to confirm the venue, date and time.
 Reports on PR interviews are considered by the Registration Committee on the dates published on our web site.
 You will be advised by email within 2 weeks of the Registration Committee meeting of the final decision regarding your
and, for successful applicants, the EngC Entry Fee will be deducted from your credit card.
 Details of successful applicants are submitted to the Engineering Council once the Registration Committee has
approved the application and the Entry Fee has been collected. Registration is normally approved by them within 20
days of submission.
 Applicants not approved for the grade requested will be provided with feedback.
 For further advice, please visit http://www.aerosociety.com/Professional-Recognition or send an email to
Margaret.breugelmans@aerosociety.com or telephone +44 (0)20 7670 4323.
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QUALIFYING REPORT
This report is divided into Standards A – E as given in UK-SPEC and there are sub-headings for each one. Different aspects of your
qualifications, work experience and professional development can apply to several sub-headings. Give evidence for each subheading.
Tell us about your career and the education and training you have received. Explain how the experience you have gained has made
you more competent.
Standard A: The reviewers will be looking for evidence that you have the know-how to do the job, and were able to go beyond the
immediate requirements and use your initiative and experience to solve a problem or improve a process. Describe something in your
work you were involved in which didn’t quite work and explain why. For A2 - Drawing from your direct experience, this might be an
explanation of how a piece of equipment, system or mechanism works.
Standard B: Explain how you contribute to one or more of these activities. Show an example of how you have used measurement,
monitoring and assessment to identify the source of a problem or to identify an opportunity. Illustrate how you make decisions about
what material, component, people or plant to use or how to introduce a new method of working.
Standard C: Describe an experience or instance where you have had to accept personal responsibility for seeing a process through to
completion within agreed targets. Your evidence should show how you personally identified and agreed with what had to be done and
to what standards on a on a typical project. Your evidence could include minutes of meetings; site notes and instructions; Variation
Orders; programmes of work; specifications, drawing and reports; appraisals. Activity not associated with your job can contribute
evidence.
Standard D: You will need to show you can: contribute to discussions; make a presentation; read and synthesise information; write
different types of documents. Your evidence could include letters, reports, drawings, advice, minutes, including progress meetings,
appraisals, work instructions, and other task planning and organising documents. Your application itself will be relevant. Examples of
how you have worked effectively with colleagues, and your role at the time.
Standard E: Your commitment will be to become part of the profession and uphold the standards to which all members subscribe. You
need to show that you have read and understood the RAeS Code of Conduct. You will need to sign a personal undertaking. The
professional review involves demonstration of, or discussion of, your position on typical ethical challenges. Provide evidence of
applying current safety requirements such as examples of good practice you adopt in your work; You will need to show that you have
received a formal safety instruction relating to your workplace (such as a CSCS safety test in the UK), or an update on statutory
regulations such as COSHH requirements. Show examples of methodical assessment of risk in specific projects; actions taken to
minimise risk to health, safety, society or the environment. Continuing professional development means demonstrating that you have
actively sought to keep yourself up to date, perhaps by studying new standards or techniques, or made use of magazines, Branch
meetings and other opportunities to network in order to keep abreast of change.
The Society may require you to be interviewed as part of the assessment process. If this happens, it will be conducted in English,
subject only to the provisions of the Welsh Language Act 1993 and any Regulations which may be made in implementation of
European Union directives on free movement of labour. If you are called for interview, you may bring to the PRI Interview any
documents which you feel you may wish to refer to in support of statements you have made in your application. Please bring with you
any licenses held.
Important: The Qualifying Report and any other documentation should not include information that is commercially sensitive, or that
needs security clearance. Evidence should be presented in such a way that allows all committee members and registered assessors to
view it. The assessors are bound by the professional code of conduct in the Society’s By-Laws, but are not necessarily security
cleared, nor is the office environment secure to the necessary standard for handling sensitive information.
Engineering Technicians must be competent throughout their working life, by virtue of their education, training and
experience, to:
Standard A: Use engineering knowledge and understanding to apply technical and practical skills. This includes
the ability to:
Evidence
Reference/
Evidence of Competence Presented
Project
Name
A1
Review and select appropriate
techniques, procedures and
methods to undertake tasks.
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A2
Use appropriate scientific,
technical or engineering
principles.
Standard B: Contribute to the design, development, manufacture, construction, commissioning, operation or
maintenance of products, equipment, processes, systems or services. In this context, this includes the ability to:
Evidence
Reference/
Project Name
Evidence of Competence Presented
B1
Identify problems and apply
diagnostic methods to identify
causes and achieve satisfactory
solutions.
B2
Identify, organise and use
resources effectively to complete
tasks, with consideration for cost,
quality, safety and environmental
impact.
Standard C: Accept and exercise personal responsibility. This includes the ability to:
Evidence
Reference/
Project
Name
Evidence of Competence Presented
C1
Work reliably and effectively
without close supervision, to the
appropriate codes of practice
C2
Accept responsibility for work of
self and others
C3
Accept, allocate and supervise
technical and other tasks.
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Standard D: Use effective communication and interpersonal skills. This includes the ability to:
Evidence
Reference/
Project
Name
Evidence of Competence Presented
D1
Use oral, written and electronic
methods for the communication in
English of technical and other
information.
D2
Work effectively with colleagues,
clients, suppliers or the public,
and be aware of the needs and
concerns of others, especially
where related to diversity and
equality.
Standard E: Make a personal commitment to an appropriate code of professional conduct, recognising
obligations to society, the profession and the environment. In order to satisfy this commitment, you must:
Evidence
Reference/
Project
Name
Evidence of Competence Presented
E1
Comply with the Code of Conduct
of the Royal Aeronautical Society
E2
Manage and apply safe systems
of work
E3
Undertake engineering work in a
way that contributes to
sustainable development
This could include an ability to:
• Operate and act responsibly,
taking account of the need to
progress environmental, social
and economic outcomes
simultaneously.
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E4
Carry out and record continuing
professional development (CPD)
necessary to maintain and
enhance competence in own area
of practice including:
• Undertake reviews of own
development needs
• Plan how to meet personal and
organisational objectives
• Carry out planned (and
unplanned) CPD activities
• Maintain evidence of
competence development
• Evaluate CPD outcomes against
any plans made
• Assist others with their own
CPD.
E5
Exercise responsibilities in an
ethical manner.
NB: This report remains the property of the RAeS. It will not be available to anybody outside the authority of the Society.
blacw.aerosociety.com/membership fs and for a copy of UK-SPE
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9. DEVELOPMENT ACTION PLAN
Please indicate your plans for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the short, medium and long-term
Short term plans
Medium term plans
Long term plans
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15. PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS
Payment of the non-refundable membership administration fees is to be made on application. Membership subscription fees will be collected when
the application has been successful. Visit www.aerosociety.com/membership for current membership fees.
To the Royal Aeronautical Society –I authorise the Society to charge non-refundable membership administration fees on receipt of
this application and, in the event of my election to membership of the Society, the first year’s fees for the grades of membership
applied for to the credit/debit card shown below.
Name on card:
Card Number:
Card Type (please tick): ☐ VISA ☐ DELTA ☐ MAESTRO ☐ MASTERCARD ☐
AMEX
SWITCH/MAESTRO Issue No.
Security number:
Valid From:
CVC Code (3 digit security code on reverse):
Expiry Date
16. GIFT AID YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AND DONATIONS (UK TAX PAYERS) - optional
Please consider this option if you are a UK taxpayer. All Gift Aid donations support the Society’s charitable work.
I, the Applicant, request that the following be treated as a Gift Aid Donation
to the Royal Aeronautical Foundation (please tick as appropriate):
☐ My membership subscription paid personally by me (and not by a third party);
and/or
☐ My donation(s) paid personally by me
for
☐ A) The current year and all future years; or
☐ B) The past four years, the current year and all future years; or
☐ Other (please specify):
Please notify the Society if
you
a) want to cancel this
declaration,
b) change your name or home
address or
c) no longer pay sufficient tax on
your income and/or capital gains.
By selecting A I hereby confirm that I will not make a tax
deduction in respect of my membership subscriptions in the
current and future years.
By selecting B I have not made a tax deduction in respect
of my membership subscriptions in the past four years, nor
will I make a claim in the current and future years.
I confirm I have paid or will pay an amount of Income Tax
and/or Capital Gains Tax for each year (6 April to 5 April)
that is least equal to the amount of tax that all the charities
or Community Amateur Sports Clubs that I donate to will
reclaim on my gifts for that tax year. I understand that
other taxes such as VAT and Council Tax do not qualify.
Tax claimed by the Society: The Society will reclaim 25p of tax on
every £1 that is given.
Donors who pay income tax at the
higher rate must include all their Gift
Aid donations on their Self
Assessment tax return if they want to
receive the additional tax relief due to
them.
Applicant’s Signature:
Print name:
Date:
Print and sign this form and send to arrive by the closing
date to:
The Professional Standards Officer
Royal Aeronautical Society
4 Hamilton Place
LONDON W1J 7BQ
OPTIONAL: to assist us in improving our service, please
indicate what has prompted you to apply:
Encouraged by employer
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RAeS event
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External event
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Direct mail
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Advert
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Personal recommendation by
Other:
Campaign code, if available:
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