PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT / COMPETENCE
Professional competence
Explore the judgement, responsibility and habits that make engineering work defensible. The ICE and IStructE pages then show their own assessment language.
01Technical knowledgeExplain why the chosen model, method or standard was appropriate and where its limits sat.02Engineering judgementShow the options, assumptions, checks and consequences behind a recommendation.03ResponsibilitySeparate your decisions from the team’s work and name who reviewed or approved them.04Health, safety and welfareDescribe the risk, your duty, what changed in the design or work and what remained.05SustainabilityUse a baseline, alternatives and whole-life effects; be clear about trade-offs and uncertainty.06Commercial awarenessConnect scope, programme, cost and contract consequences to engineering decisions.07CommunicationExplain technical reasoning so another person can question it and act on it.08Leadership and teamworkShow how you coordinated people, reviewed work or developed others, including without line authority.09EthicsDescribe a situation with a real duty or pressure and the action you took.10Risk and uncertaintyIdentify the mechanism, what was known and what evidence would change the decision.11Decision-makingMake the choice, alternative, approval and outcome visible in your account.12Learning from mistakesExplain what you found, how you corrected it and what changed in subsequent practice.