Sponsor’s Questionnaire

Important information

The sponsor’s role

This sponsor questionnaire is to be used if supporting a candidate for the Chartered Professional Review, Chartered
Professional Review (Progressive), Member Professional Review or the Technical Report Route. Those applying
for the Technician Professional Review or through a Recognition Route have a separate questionnaire.

The sponsor questionnaire is an important part of a candidate’s application for ICE membership. Please take the
responsibility seriously, understand the required attributes and provide useful, in-depth comments about the
candidate. Brief statements – like describing the candidate as ‘technically competent’ – are not useful to reviewers.

The sponsor’s additional statement of support should expand on any of the attributes and may be used to give a
character reference or examples of the candidate’s approach to ethical issues.

The overriding duty of all sponsors is to declare on the sponsor’s form that:

 “The candidate is a fit and proper person for admission to membership”.

This must be an informed statement measured against the relevant member competences.

 “I have scrutinised the candidate’s submission” (ICE lead sponsor only)

This is a bold, definitive statement. The documents must satisfy the Lead Sponsor in every detail, most particularly
in that they really do demonstrate the attributes being sought.

Sponsor requirements
All applications for membership must be supported by three sponsors.

All candidates must nominate one of their sponsors as the lead sponsor. The lead sponsor has to be a current
professionally qualified member of ICE and registered with the Engineering Council UK through ICE or one of the
Engineering Council licensed bodies. The other two sponsors must be professionally qualified engineers listed in
the table on pages below.

All sponsors must be professionally qualified and registered at the equivalent grade of membership, or above to
that which the candidate is applying for. This protects the values and standards of ICE and your profession.

Lead sponsor
It is expected that, if you are acting as the lead sponsor, full, detailed comments must be provided in each of the
boxes demonstrating, through your knowledge of the candidate, how they have achieved all of the attributes.

The lead sponsor must sign the report précis and the submitted report and confirm that they are satisfied that the
candidate has taken note of any comments made by ICE on their Initial Professional Development (IPD).

The scope of the lead sponsor involvement should extend to constructive criticism of the report, advice on the
presentation and arranging practice interviews.

Other sponsors
You are expected to review the criteria for the grade of membership for which the candidate is applying. If you do
not have personal knowledge of the candidate in one or two attributes, please provide detailed comments against
those for which you do have knowledge.

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 If you have not been able to complete all boxes, it will also be necessary for you to provide an additional statement
of support at the end of the questionnaire, stating why, based on your personal knowledge of the candidate, they
meet the requirements for membership.

Member attributes
All sponsors must be aware of the attributes of the different grades of membership and must be convinced, through
direct experience, that the candidate is a fit and proper person to be elected to ICE membership.

They are listed on the attributes page of our website. All sponsors should read them.

Returning the sponsor questionnaire

You must complete the sponsor questionnaire based upon your personal knowledge of the candidate. The
completed sponsor questionnaire must be submitted* into the Professional Reviews sponsor’s portal a minimum
of one week before the application opening date of the centre/location that the candidate is applying for.

*If the questionnaire is unsigned, or there are concerns with the sponsor’s comments, the form will be returned
and may lead to the candidate’s Professional Review being deferred.

Post-Professional Review feedback

If the reviewers think the performance of the candidate varies significantly from the lead sponsor’s comments, we
will get in touch to provide feedback.

Sponsor eligibility

Lead sponsor* requirements

If you are registered with and professionally qualified with ICE as: You can be a lead sponsor* for:
the Engineering Council
UK as: IEng MICE CEng MICE

CEng FICE

CEng MICE

IEng FICE

IEng MICE

*If you meet the requirements to be a lead sponsor, you also meet the requirements for a supporting
sponsor

Supporting sponsor requirements

If you are registered and professionally qualified/registered You can be a supporting sponsor for:
with: as:
IEng MICE CEng MICE

Any Engineering Council Chartered Engineer (CEng)

licensed institution

Any Engineering Council Incorporated Engineer (IEng)

licensed institution

Engineers Australia Chartered Professional Engineer

MIEAust / FIEAust

Hong Kong Institution of Corporate Member

Engineers MHKIE / FHKIE

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Engineers AMHKIE / FHKIE

Engineers Ireland Chartered Engineer

MIEI / FIEI

Engineers Ireland Associate Engineer

MIEI / FIEI

Engineering New Zealand Chartered Professional Engineer and/or

Chartered Member CMEngNZ/FEngNZ

Engineering New Zealand Engineering Technologist

CMEngNZ/FEngNZ

Engineering Council of Professional Engineer

South Africa

Engineering Council of Professional Engineering Technologist

South Africa

Engineers Canada Professional Engineer

(relevant constituent
association)

Canadian Council of Certified Technologist

Technicians and
Technologists (relevant
provincial association)

Institution of Engineers Chartered Engineer

India MIE / FIE

Institution of Professional Professional Engineer Jp

Engineers Japan

Korean Professional Professional Engineer

Engineers Association

Institution of Engineers Member/Senior Member/ Fellow of IEM

Malaysia and Board of and Professional Engineer
Engineers Malaysia

Institution of Engineers Member/Senior Member/ Fellow of IES

Singapore and and Professional Engineer
Professional Engineering
Board

Institution of Engineers Sri Chartered Engineer

Lanka MIESL / FIESL

NCEES USA (relevant Professional Engineer

licensing board)

Any member of the IntPE International Professional Engineer

Agreement

Any member of the IntET International Engineering Technologist

Agreement

Any member of the APEC APEC Engineer

Agreement

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CONFIDENTIAL
Please complete this form electronically, delete the preceding pages of
guidance and convert into a PDF file before uploading into the Professional Reviews sponsor’s
portal.

You must complete all the details on the portal page before uploading the form.

Candidate’s       Membership no                

name (If applicable)

Under which route to professionally qualified membership is the candidate applying (please select one option only):

CPRP Chartered Professional Review

CPR Chartered Professional Review
Progressive
MPR Member Professional Review TRR Technical Report Route

This questionnaire must be completed based upon your personal knowledge of the candidate. You must
submit the questionnaire a minimum of one week before the application opening date of the centre/location
that the candidate is applying for.

Information about you

Full name      

Are you the lead sponsor?

(must be a current ICE Yes No
member)
Membe
Please state Professional
      rship      
Institution
no
Membe
How many years have
   rship      
you been a member?
grade

Employer      

Position held      

Address line 1      

Address line 2      

Country      

Postcode       Teleph      

one
E-mail      
Your responsibility
You should understand your responsibilities when supporting a candidate in an application for one of the grades of
membership. Your comments are crucial to maintaining the standards for admission to membership of the
Institution.

You must complete this form yourself.  Under no circumstances should the candidate complete this
questionnaire.  You must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the statements you have made are true and
complete, and in no way misleading.  Failure to do so may breach the ICE Rules of Professional Conduct, and
render you, if an ICE member liable to disciplinary proceedings. If you are not an ICE member, then your
professional body will be contacted and informed of the breach

I have full knowledge of the current review requirements (details can be found on the ICE
website)
How long have you known the candidate (approx)    years    months

Are you still in regular contact Yes No

What is your Client

association with the Manager/Supervisor Colleague
candidate Other (please specify) –      

Briefly describe your professional relationship with the candidate

     

Unspent convictions
No person with an unspent criminal conviction relating to a Serious Criminal Offence will be admitted to any
grade of membership unless there are special circumstances that show beyond reasonable doubt that the
person is a fit and proper person to be admitted to membership of the Institution. Sponsors of such persons
will be required to make a specific declaration on the unspent convictions form prepared by the candidate.

ICE LEAD SPONSOR ONLY

I have scrutinised all of the candidate’s submission documents

I have read the comments in the candidate’s evidence of IPD Completion)/TRR Stage 1 assessment
and I am satisfied that due consideration has been taken of any advice given
About the candidate
Candidates for membership are required to demonstrate their technical, commercial and professional
competence. Please indicate in the table below how, giving examples, the candidate has achieved the levels of
competence required.

Please provide any additional information, if necessary, on a separate sheet.

Attributes How Attributes have been achieved

Knowledge and
Understanding of      
Engineering

Technical and Practical

Application of      
Engineering

Management &
Leadership      

Independent Judgement
& Responsibility      

Commercial Ability
     

Health, Safety & Welfare      

Sustainable Development      

Interpersonal Skills and

     
Communication

Professional Commitment      

Additional statement of support (if required)
     

Sponsor’s Declaration (required):

I recommend the admission of this candidate from personal knowledge and am fully convinced that the
candidate possesses the requisite abilities and characteristics. I believe that the candidate is a fit and proper
person for admission to membership of ICE.
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who use our services. This will be used confidentially for normal purposes, including subscription and donation collection, mailing
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Personal data relating to ICE membership may be stored securely in perpetuity for historical purposes. Personal data relating to
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Signed       Date      

Please submit directly on the Professional Reviews sponsor’s upload portal. If you
experience any issues with the site, please call us on + (44) 207 665 2344 or email
professional.reviews@ice.org.uk