ECCs For Engineering Competency Report EA Chartership

 

The engineering competency report shown to Engineers Australia is incomplete without an effective ECC or Engineering Competency Claim. Assessment of Engineers Australia Stage 2 Competencies demands certain documents, and ECC is one of them.

It provides proof of the skills and capability of professional engineers. Here, we will tell you how to write ECCs or the things to take into account when you prepare them.

Tips to prepare the best ECCs for an effective engineering competency report:

1.   Keep in mind that you have to give clear proof in the ECC. Therefore, start by thinking of a minimum of 6 main career episodes in which you play a vital role. For example, you might refer to the engineering issues and activities in the Stage 2 Competency standards or you may have your CV, any reports, specifications, proposals or attainments you have had in these career episodes.

2.   After having sufficient information about your main career episodes, you’d better identify the competencies that are related to these episodes. Therefore, pay attention to the 16 competency elements given by Engineers Australia and think of where you have used these competencies. There can be more than one capability that has been used in one career episode. There would also be certain capabilities that are not used at all. In this case, just start again and try to consider a career episode including all those left capabilities.

3.   Now, from these career episodes, you have to pick the work experiences showing your capabilities in the best way as evidence of competency for evaluation.

Things to consider when writing ECCs (Engineering Competency Claims):

1.   All claims you prepare must be at most be 700 words. It should provide all the details regarding the way you effectively practiced the competency elements. Remember that when ECCs are of less than 500 words, then they can be taken as insufficient by the evaluator.

2.   The evaluator wants to know about your achievements in your professional career. Therefore, use narratives and write your ECCs in the first person.

3.   You should utilize bullet points to write the activities, but you need to ensure that the sentences you write make sense and are free from grammatical mistakes.

4.   You can show the use of more than one element in a single career episode. But, you are advised to try to mention a minimum of 5 career episodes that cover all the elements.

5.   Remember that you must keep your writing clear and easy to understand. The information and details you provide to the assessor must be in a way that facilitates assessment.

6.   Take into account some engineering competency claims examples when you write down your own. It will give a confusion-free idea of how you should process and the things you should pay heed to.

7.   The career episodes you use must be effective and do not leave anything for the evaluator to assume. Remember that apart from the low word count, a poor career episode can also spoil the broth.

8.   You are not required to explain your project or how your team handled that project but your decisions, projections and actions.

Tips to evaluate your ECCs:

After you write your ECCs, then you can assess them on your own if you follow the tips given below to ensure a successful engineering competency report:

1.   Validity: you have to show your valid experience, not an imaginary situation.

2.   Authenticity: you have to show your competencies, not the ones that your team and co-workers have.

3.   Reliability: you need to explain that you can, if need in the future, trust your solutions and results. No result was a result of a coincidence.

4.   Sufficiency: your proof must be enough to cover the competency elements so that the evaluator can assess your capabilities without any difficulty.

5.   Current: generally, there is not any limit set by Engineers Australia, but you are expected to give career episodes of the last 8 years. If you have any problem here, then you need to communicate with the assessor about the acceptance of old proof.

Although we provide you with the tips to write the best ECCs for the best engineering competency report, you’d better take professional writing services for ECCs to assure a flawless report to attain the Chartered status or registration on NER.