• Question: How long has it taken you to reach the status you are at today?

    Asked by Hari S to Andrew, Lizzie, Nick, Sonia on 16 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Flying Pig 1.
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      anon answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Difficult to say becoming competent and having the skills and confidence to design and make electronics which work tends to creep up. Once you pass your first/second degree – most hospital position require a master level entry. There are accredited training schemes which over a course of around 2-3 years will take to to a proficiency where you can safely practice on your own.

      Becoming a Charter Engineer – a professional qualification would show fellow colleague that you have made it and can work on you own in a competent manner. Since I can into engineering via a non standard route it took me around 13 year to get my CEng, but following a traditional CEng route would take 3-6 years post graduation

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      Elizabeth Kapasa answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      I did a 4 year undergraduate degree (MEng) and now I’m 2 years into a 4 year PhD programme.

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      Andrew Phillips answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      It depends what you take as the starting point. I spent eight years doing my MEng and PhD. Luckily I was one of the last undergraduate students who didn’t pay fees, and I got paid to do my PhD.

      It’s then taken me another 9 years to get to the position that I’m in now, but I was in a similar position after 1 year, I’ve just moved up since then!

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