Membership Types - Voting

The 3 types of voting membership of the Institute of Explosives Engineers are Fellow, Member and Associate. The entrance qualifications and experience for each of these is described below. Appropriately qualified persons may enter at any of these levels and there is a progressive path from Student through Associate to Member status.

Member

The status of Member of the Institute of Explosives Engineers (M.I.Exp .E.) shall be accorded by the Council to candidates not less than 23 years old who shall have:

• Passed, or been exempted from, the appropriate examinations stipulated by the Council, and either been trained and become qualified for, and shall have held for at least three years, a responsible post engaged in explosives engineering or equivalent technical explosives management duties, or
• Been trained and become qualified as Ammunition Technical Officers or Ammunition Technicians Class I in the Army, or their equivalents in the British or appropriate foreign Armed Services, and
• Been approved for admission by an Individual Membership Committee comprising 3 members of Council.

Exceptionally, applicants who do not hold adequate academic and/or professional qualifications which would permit exemption from the Institute examinations, and who are applying for membership without examination, shall be required to demonstrate their competence by submitting a thesis of 5000 words in length on a topic related to explosives technology. This thesis may be supported by appropriate diagrams, graphs and photographs. The candidate shall be interviewed by an examining board appointed for the purpose and this board shall ascertain whether the applicant has knowledge adequate to have completed the thesis by his own original work and shall report its findings to the Membership Committee.

Associate

The status of Associate of the Institute of Explosives Engineers (A.I.Exp.E.) shall be granted by the Council to candidates not less than 23 years old who shall have either:

• been trained and become qualified to hold a responsible post as a skilled operative in such pursuits as explosives development, manufacture or use, or
• been trained and become qualified as a serviceman or related civilian whose duties involve the handling and use of military explosives and associated munitions but whose expertise does not yet equate to the standards laid down above for a Member of the Institute, or
• reached a responsible position and gained adequate experience, but who have not yet sat or been exempted from the examinations for full membership status, and Attended for interview by members of Council, if so required.

Associates are not entitled to be nominated for election as members of Council.