"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:36:01 -0000, "Mike" wrote:

But the IEE is the only body to charter electrical/electronic engineers

But how many chartered engineers _need_ to be chartered engineers?
There's some prestige to it, but almost none of them are required to
be so by any mandatory rule.

Depends what you are doing - anything legal needs charter for instance.
Also it helps in presentations to governments.

But for many other engineering-based professions - especially civil
engineering, architecture and so on, it is almost impossible to practice
without a charter.