Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation Team Sudo Presented by: Joe Angus Ringham, Eoin Groat, Bogdan Popovici, Alexis Agrotis, Shashank Sharma, Megan Cheung, Matthew Heald Tutor: Michael Butler

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation Introduction slide This presentation is an informative overview of the British Computer Society We explain: ●Potential benefits of membership ●What responsibilities it entails, and the BCS code of conduct ●How students can progress to accredited status, and their available options ●An outline of other professional bodies and their benefits

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Group R Professional Bodies and Accreditation The Group Eoin Groat Corin Chaplin. Matthew Heald Bogdan Popovici Megan Cheung Shashank Sharma Joe Ringham Alexis Agrotis

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Group R Professional Bodies and Accreditation Benefits of membership ● ● Access to events and other networking opportunities Access to 250 IT and business related e. Books and thousands of Business related journals and magazines. ● Free bulletins on several topics ● 4 issues of the BCS magazine a year ● Several discounts on: – Discounted training opportunities – Discounts on the BCS bookshop – Discounted access to ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) digital Library ● Access to mentoring schemes ● Access to a legal helpline and online legal service ● Discount on Professional Indemnity Insurance

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation Benefits for specific memberships ● ● Some memberships let the member use a post-nominal from BCS, for example AMBCS for an associate IT professional or FBCS for a fellowship membership This allows others to recognise an individual's membership Chartered IT professionals and fellows have there name put on a publicly accessible register that employers are able to view Fellows have paid-for lawyers to represent them at Employment Tribunals or in Civil Court if they are involved in a dispute with their employer.

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation Responsibilities of BCS members And the code of conduct

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation Public Interest a) have due regard for public health, privacy, security and wellbeing of others and the environment. b) have due regard for the legitimate rights of Third Parties*. c) conduct your professional activities without discrimination on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, nationality, colour, race, ethnic origin, religion, age or disability, or of any other condition or requirement. d) promote equal access to the benefits of IT and seek to promote the inclusion of all sectors in society wherever opportunities arise.

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation Professional Competence and Integrity a) Only undertake to do work or provide a service that is within your professional competence. b) NOT claim any level of competence that you do not possess. c) Develop your professional knowledge, skills and competence on a continuing basis, maintaining awareness of technological developments, procedures, and standards that are relevant to your field. d) Ensure that you have the knowledge and understanding of Legislation* and that you comply with such Legislation, in carrying out your professional responsibilities. e) Respect and value alternative viewpoints and, seek, accept and offer honest criticisms of work. f) Avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious or negligent action or inaction. g) Reject and will not make any offer of bribery or unethical inducement.

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation Duty to Relevant Authority a) Carry out your professional responsibilities with due care and diligence in accordance with the Relevant Authority’s requirements whilst exercising your professional judgement at all times. b) Seek to avoid any situation that may give rise to a conflict of interest between you and your Relevant Authority. c) Accept professional responsibility for your work and for the work of colleagues who are defined in a given context as working under your supervision. d) NOT disclose or authorise to be disclosed, or use for personal gain or to benefit a third party, confidential information except with the permission of your Relevant Authority, or as required by Legislation e) NOT misrepresent or withhold information on the performance of products, systems or services (unless lawfully bound by a duty of confidentiality not to disclose such information), or take advantage of the lack of relevant knowledge or inexperience of others.

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation Duty to the Profession a) Accept your personal duty to uphold the reputation of the profession and not take any action which could bring the profession into disrepute. b) Seek to improve professional standards through participation in their development, use and enforcement. c) Uphold the reputation and good standing of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. d) Act with integrity and respect in your professional relationships with all members of BCS and with members of other professions with whom you work in a professional capacity. e) Notify BCS if convicted of a criminal offence or upon becoming bankrupt or disqualified as a Company Director and in each case give details of the relevant jurisdiction. f) Encourage and support fellow members in their professional development

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation How to progress to accredited status Professional registration is a key fact for any engineer or technician in order to establish their knowledge and competence. There are important IT Institutions which provide a wide range of licensed professional engineering qualifications such as: • IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers • ACM – Association for Computing Machinery • BCS – The Chartered Institute of IT • IET – The Institute of Engineering and Technology

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation How to progress to accredited status Few steps for becoming an accredited IT professional: • Obtain an accredited Bachelors degree with honours in engineering or technology or an accredited integrated MEng degree (follow an accredited university) • Join a professional engineering institution licensed by the Engineering Council • Gain experience as a professional engineer by working for different companies (could be as a volunteer) • Apply for Ceng, Eng. Tech or IEng registration through your professional engineering institution

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation How to apply? • You can simply complete an online registration form to any institution of engineering (for example “IET”) • The decision about which body to contact will normally be straightforward and obvious, dictated by the degree’s specialism you are following.

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation Other professional bodies

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) ● ● ● World’s largest educational and scientific computing society Professional Membership is 68, 500, and Student Membership totals 25, 500, for a total of more than 97, 000 members, all from over 100 countries Discounts or access to these online or print publications: – Communications of the ACM – Brings readers in-depth coverage of emerging areas in computer science – ACM Digital Library – Full text access of every article ever published on ACM, including Journals, Magazines and e. Books. It contains over two million pages of text – ACM Queue – a magazine for practising software engineers, written by and for engineers. – Tech. News - a tri-weekly email digest of the latest IT news.

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ● ● ● World's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity More than 425, 000 members in more than 160 countries, more than 50 percent of whom are from outside the United States More than 116, 000 Student members; Has 38 Societies and 7 technical Councils representing the wide range of IEEE technical interests Has more than 3 million documents in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, with more than 8 million downloads each month Publishes more than 148 transactions, journals, and magazines

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Professional Bodies and Accreditation Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) ● ● ● IET is a professional home for life for engineers and technicians and a trusted source of essential engineering intelligence Has more than 150, 000 members worldwide in 127 countries Members operate almost 100 Local Networks as well as 21 Technical and Professional Networks Publishes more than 100 new titles every year; a rich mix of books, journals and magazines with a back catalogue of more than 500 publications Publishes Inspec; the leading English language bibliographic information service for scientific and technical literature Publishes Flipside; a science, engineering and technology magazine for teenagers which is the only publication of its type for this audience ● Offers professional designations of TMIET, MIET and FIET ● Provides legal advice and financial assistance to IET members and their dependents ● Awards £ 500, 000 in prizes scholarships and medals each year, enabling engineering endeavour and rewarding achievement

Group R Professional bodies and accreditation Group R Professional Bodies and Accreditation Sources Benefits of membership Progression and options British Computer Society(2013) Membership Services and Benefits Available from: http: //www. bcs. org/content/con. Certification/11 5 Accessed: 18 April 2013 http: //www. engc. org. uk/ecukdocuments/internet/d ocument%20 library/AHEP%20 Brochure. pdf British Computer Society(2013) Choose your membership Available from: http: //www. bcs. org/category/5779 Accessed: 18 April 2013 http: //www. ieee. org/index. html http: //www. engc. org. uk/ceng. aspx Other professional bodies Code of conduct http: //www. bcs. org/category/6030 http: //www. bcs. org/content/Con. Web. Doc/3998 8 http: //cacm. org http: //www. ieee. org http: //ieeexplore. ieee. org http: //www. theiet. org