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Guidelines for documenting the Summary of Post-Graduate Professional Experience and the Competency Report on Post-Graduate Engineering Experience

Your application for registration must be accompanied by the Summary of Post-Graduate Professional Experience (Al.6) and the Competency Report on Post-Graduate Experience in which your engineering experience from the date of obtaining the first engineering degree to the date of application is recorded in chronological order and typed or printed in black ink.

Number the periods in chronological order, which may not overlap.
Cover the period from graduation to the date of application.
An experience period ends when:
Your work environment has changed, e.g., when a major task or project has been completed.
Your type of work has changed.
Your responsibilities or level of function have changed (for instance, as in a promotion);
You have changed employers.
Your training is interrupted (for example, by study or prolonged illness).

The experience periods and interruption periods must also be noted in the Summary of Post? Graduate Professional Experience. Ensure that the form is signed (verified) by your relevant supervisor or employer, and that you sign it as the applicant. If you cannot obtain the head’s signature, please annotate accordingly in the appropriate block and put an affidavit to the effect that the data provided is true. If supporting documentation is appended, sign each document/paper properly and indicate to which experience period it refers.

In the Competency Report on ECSA Post-Graduate Engineering Experience on each of the two to four projects you indicated in the summary, you are expected to show how your engineering experience meets the competency requirements outlined in the eligibility criteria for registration.

Write it in the 1st person.
Describe the work you did. Do not just list tasks and projects, but explain your role -to
To what degree were you exposed or actually responsible for the work done personally?
Do not spend more than one paragraph describing the project work.
Include org charts that show who you work with and should show your position, one level above and one level below your position in the organization.
Indicate the competencies acquired either as a topic or on the margins of your report.

The following are points that could be included in your ECSA Competency Report on Post-Graduate Engineering Experience, and where applicable, you could cover the following:

Your responsibility in a task
Your contributions to a task
Organgram Gram, with your position
The objective of each major task
Information base used
Method of problem analysis
Method of arriving at a solution
Criteria used in evaluation
Communication on a task
Interaction with other disciplines
Preparation of documentation
Compliance with regulations
Contracts and conditions of contract
Occupation, Health, and Safety Laws
Finance and the build-up of the cost of a job
Management of materials, machines, workforce, methods, or money
Handling of hazards and/or environmental aspects
Design drawings and/or images of work done

Any other points that relate to the competencies indicated in the ECSA Competency Checklist for Professional Assessment are appended to the criteria for registration.

Engineers with at least 15 years of post-graduate experience are also required to submit a Competency Report on Post-Graduate Engineering Experience. Still, they need not hand in lengthy reports covering the earlier years of their career.
A brief description, in bullet form or CV, indicating the type of work undertaken for each experience period will be acceptable.
This earlier part of the applicant’s experience may be verified by an affidavit when no supervisor or employer is available.
However, the last five years of experience must be reported in detail and verified by supervisors/senior colleagues.
Hence, mature applicants must provide evidence of engineering experience at an acceptable level and of sufficient variety to enable the assessment committee to assess the application.

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