3. Work Experience
The following conditions for the assessment of Work Experience as an additional service are to be noted:
work experience must be relevant to the assessed outcome, in terms of occupation and engineering category
work experience cannot be claimed before completion of the applicable qualification
work experience should be paid at the market or salaried rate for engineering professionals. Clients receiving stipends, living allowances or scholarships will not generally be considered to be salaried
whilst 'full-time' work constitutes 20 hrs/wk or more, this must be regular employment and not include long periods of unpaid leave
in general, research activities undertaken as a PhD student, or work experience as a Research Assistant/Fellow whilst undertaking a PhD, etc, can not usually be assessed as relevant for this purpose
the employment evidence as listed on page 25 of the MSA Booklet is crucial to the acceptance of any claimed work experience