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

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

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.