institution of civil engineers, the reviewer's perspective

The Reviewer’s perspective

Eur Ing Ian Jenkinson BSc MBA CEng FICE FIMechE MCIM

If a candidate can do all this ...

We guess they will clear the bar

So its not about winning ... ... its avoiding a crash

Match or Mismatch ... ?

Reviewer Candidate

Sponsor links to Project Report

What really adds value?

good Reports ...

• Brief project description

• What they personally did

• Problems encountered

• What they learned

... or obscure Appendices?

Review should confirm the application

• their Reports

• their knowledge

• their understandingns

• good Q&A to cover the ‘Attributes’

The Presentation

Slow death by bullet point ...

• Blah blah

• Blah blah

• Blah blah

• Etc ......

... or an explanation to colleagues?

Neither the 3rd degree nor ‘adult to child’

Questions & Answers

We ask open questions ... ... so explain / show / point

Draw sketches to explain

Evidence brought together

• Sponsor reports

• Experience Report

• Project Report

• PDP & CPD records

• Q&A during the review

Written Exercise

Candidate can almost define it Reviewers usually respond

How do we decide Pass/Fail ?

PASS because superheros ... ... PASS because of their

potential

FAIL because of B***S**T