Fellow of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) is the highest grade of

Institution of Engineering and Technology The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution. The IET was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), dating back to 1871, and ...

membership, awarded to those who have sustained high levels of achievement, for several years. Fellows must demonstrates to fulfil at least two of the nine following citeria: *Leadership *Responsibility *Insight and Experience *Creativity *Innovation *Enterprise *Service *Reputation *Influence and Contribution Applicants must document on their application that their careers and achievements fulfill the above-mentioned criteria. Applications must be supported by minimum two other existing fellows. Also, Fellow of other international learned society as well as chartered engineer status are preferred prior to the application for fellow grade in IET. Applicants include senior engineers, researchers, and technology leaders from industry and accomplished professors from universities. Prior to the name change of IET, fellows have the post-nominal letters of FIEE. Existing fellows of IEE automatically become FIET when the engineering institution changes its name in 2006.

Fellowship

Fellow A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements. Within the context of higher education ...

s are entitled to use the

post-nominal letters Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles, designatory letters or simply post-nominals, are letters placed after a person's name to indicate that the individual holds a position, academic degree, accreditation, ...

FIET. examples of fellows include

Muffy Calder Dame Muffy Calder (née Thomas; born 21 May 1958) is a Canadian-born British computer scientist, Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering, and Professor of Formal Methods at the University of Glasgow. From 2012 to 2015 she ...

, Wendy Hall,

Andy Hopper Sir Andrew Hopper (born 1953) is a British-Polish Computer Technologist and entrepreneur. He is treasurer and vice-president of the Royal Society, Professor of Computer Technology, former Head of the University of Cambridge Department of Compu ...

Lajos Hanzo Lajos Hanzo FREng is an electronics engineer, Professor and Chair of Telecommunications at the University of Southampton, and a former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Press. Education Lajos was born in Hungary and studied at the Technical University ...

, and

Martin Sweeting Sir Martin Nicholas Sweeting One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 12 March 1951) is the founder and executive chairman of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL). SSTL is a corp ...

. See the :Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology for more examples.

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