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REPORTS OF THE NATIONAL MEMBERS 43

REPORT OF THE IRISH FEANI
NATIONAL COMMITTEE

Engineers Ireland
Year of Adhesion : 1966
Declared engineers: 18 524
Number of EUR INGs: 1 352
Member associations: The Institution of Engineers of Ireland was founded as The
Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland in 1835. It received its Royal Charter in 1877.
The Institution of Engineers of Ireland was established by Act of Government in 1969
and operates under the name of Engineers Ireland.
22 Clyde Road - Ballsbridge - IE-DUBLIN D04 R3N2
Tel: +353 1 665 1300
membership@engineersireland.ie
www.engineersireland.ie
President for 2019-2020 Ms Marguerite Sayers CEng FIEI
Director General : Ms Caroline Spillane
Secretary FEANI: Mr Damien Owens, CEng FIEI

Engineers Week 2020 who apply, are assessed, and achieve a registered profes-
Engineers Week is an annual week long activity that encourages sional title from Engineers Ireland, will continue to have
industry and academia to open their doors to secondary that registered title recognized if they seek work in the
students and show them what it means to be an engineer UK post-Brexit. Correspondingly, engineers in the UK, that
(http://www.engineersweek.ie/). This includes are several receive a professional title from one of their 35 professional
hundred events in schools, workplaces and public spaces. engineering organizations, will have that title recognized if
they wish to come to work in the Republic of Ireland.
Engineering 2020 Report
The report outlines developments in engineering employment, Prefer Project
perspectives and education, based on engagement with Engineers Ireland along with FEANI is participating in the
2.000 engineers, 1.000 representative members of the EU project “Professional Roles and Employability of Future
public and 100 engineering employers EngineeRs (PREFER)”. This project completed with a meeting
in Leuven in February 2020 (www. http://www.prefer-
https://www.engineersireland.ie/Professionals/News-Insights/ project.eu/).
Campaigns-and-policies/Reports/Engineering-barometer
Engineering Education Workshop
Brexit A review of the Accreditation Criteria and Procedure
For many years Engineers Ireland has had mutual recog- commenced with workshops at the ‘Engineering Education:
nition agreements with overseas professional engineering Future skills, standards and mobility’ conference held at
institutions (PEI) especially in the UK and have put in place Clyde Road on 30 October. Online consultations were also
an agreement called the Access Pathways Agreement to organised with industry and the engineering education
continue recognition of engineering professionals post- community. A special issue of the Engineers Journal on
Brexit. This agreement, put simply, ensures that engineers engineering education was published in December. 