Becoming an IMechE Fellow is a recognition that you are a professional engineer who is working in a senior role with major responsibility and significant autonomy. It is the highest membership level, and it demonstrates your wealth of commitment, experience, and contribution to engineering.

1. Becoming an IMechE Fellow is a recognition that you are a professional
engineer who is working in a senior role with major responsibility and significant
autonomy. It is the highest membership level, and it demonstrates your wealth
of commitment, experience, and contribution to engineering.
Benefits of becoming a Fellow:
You will get recognition:
· Attain international recognition for your engineering knowledge and
experience.
· Increase your exposure to new growth opportunities in your career.
· Offer thought leadership.
· Improve your long-term earning potential by means of recognition of your
competence and experience
· Raise the engineering field and motivate young engineers
Why You Should Become
an IMechE Fellow

2. Build new relationships:
Network with members of the Institution worldwide.
Make profitable working relationships with other experts in your field.
Help young members.
Volunteer to help IMechE by means of your region, industry, or through
particular activities.
Access helpful resources:
Being a Fellow will allow you to read member-only specialist engineering news,
features, and expert comment by Professional Engineering.
You will get email updates from your region or industry or interest group.
You will get financial and practical help through its benevolent fund (Support
Network).
You will have access to a world-class engineering library. You should also know
about the benefits that come with IMechE membership.
Who can apply for Fellowship?
Generally, a Fellow is a professional engineer who is working in a senior role and
has significant responsibility and autonomy, and they can demonstrate the
following qualities:
Essential:
· A position of senior responsibility or/and major autonomy in your specific
field
· Demonstrable qualities of a leader
· Influencing policy and strategy-making decisions in either a business or
technical environment
· The promotion of the engineering profession to your engineers and
potential engineers
· A set approach to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) that
explains both the way you have developed your CPD in your career to date and
how you plan your future CPD

3. Desirable:
· Highly expert knowledge in a particular area of engineering
· Technical and engineering resource management or/and personnel
management and development
Optional:
· Responsibility for a budget and the related risk
· Active application and development of new technologies in engineering
and related areas at the senior level
· Use of a significant range of fundamental principles and complicated
techniques across a broad and often unpredictable variety of contexts
You can apply for upgrading to Fellowship if you are a CEng, IEng, or EngTech
Member.
In addition, you can also apply directly to Fellowship, which would need you to
fill in a more detailed application. IMechE would also need to evaluate your
competence for becoming an EngTech, CEng, or IEng.
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