The Society of Operations Engineers (SOE) is an

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...

professional organization in the United Kingdom, formed by the merger of following three bodies in 2000:

Institute of Road Transport Engineers The Institute of Road Transport Engineers, is a UK based membership institution, with global branches, originally founded in 1944, In 2001 it agreed that it would found the Society of Operational Engineers when it was approached by the Institution ...

(IRTE),

Institution of Plant Engineers IPlantE is the (United Kingdom, British) Institution of Plant Engineers. It is the professional sector of the Society of Operations Engineers for engineers, technicians and those with an interest in the specification, installation, operation and ma ...

(IPlantE), and

Bureau of Engineer Surveyors The Bureau of Engineering Surveyors is the professional sector of the Society of Operations Engineers The Society of Operations Engineers (SOE) is an engineering professional organization in the United Kingdom, formed by the merger of following t ...

(BES). In 2019, members of the

Society of Environmental Engineers The Society of Environmental Engineers (SEE) was a British professional engineering institution founded in 1959, which ceased operations in 2019. It was licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register ...

were invited to join SOE as SEE ceased operations.

Professional accreditation

The SOE is an Institution Member of

Engineering Council The Engineering Council (formerly Engineering Council UK; colloquially known as EngC) is the UK's regulatory authority for registration of Chartered and Incorporated engineers and engineering technician, holding a register of these and providing ...

, its members with at Member (MSOE) and Fellow (FSOE) may be nominated for registration at Engineering Technician (EngTech),

Incorporated Engineer An engineering technologist is a professional trained in certain aspects of development and implementation of a respective area of technology. Engineering technology education is even more applied and less theoretical than engineering education ...

(IEng) and

Chartered Engineer Regulation and licensure in engineering is established by various jurisdictions of the world to encourage life, public welfare, safety, well-being, then environment and other interests of the general public and to define the licensure process thro ...

(CEng) levels.ECUK Ref.
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