Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
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| name = Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
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| sponsor = Royal Academy of Engineering
| location = London, UK
| website = {{URL|https://raeng.org.uk/fellows-directory}}
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Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in the UK and from around the world to promote excellence in engineering and to enhance and support engineering research, policy formation, education and entrepreneurship and other activities that advance and enrich engineering in all its forms.{{cite web|url=https://raeng.org.uk/about-us/fellowship/election-to-the-fellowship|title=Election to the Fellowship|location=London|website=raeng.org.uk|publisher=Royal Academy of Engineering|access-date=30 September 2023}}
Fellowship is a significant honour.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eng.ed.ac.uk/about/news/20191001/professor-harald-haas-elected-fellow-royal-academy-engineering|title=Professor Harald Haas elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering |publisher=University of Edinburgh|website=ed.ac.uk}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxinst.com/news/royal-academy-of-engineering-fellowship/|title=Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship|website=oxinst.com|publisher=Oxford Instruments|location=Oxford}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mecheng/news-events/sheffield-professors-fellows-royal-academy-engineering-1.804968|title=Two Sheffield Professors awarded Fellowships by the Royal Academy of Engineering |website=sheffield.ac.uk|publisher= University of Sheffield}} Up to 60 engineers are elected each year by their peers. Honorary and International Fellows are those who have made exceptional contributions to engineering.{{cite web|url=https://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-fellowship|title=The Fellowship|website=raeng.org.uk|publisher=Royal Academy of Engineering|access-date=12 December 2017}}
The criteria for election are stated in the charter, statutes, and regulations document.{{Cite web|url=https://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/charter-and-statutes|title=Charter, Statutes and Regulations|website=raeng.org.uk|publisher=Royal Academy of Engineering}} The essential attributes of excellence in engineering
include:
- Organisation and department leaders: those with full responsibility on technical decisions, those who have demonstrated significant personal engineering achievements
- Top Engineers, academics or researchers: whose work have resulted in new products, important processes or practices, those who have made outstanding contributions to major projects.
Fellows are entitled to use the post-nominal letters FREng; prior to the royal charter in 1983, FEng was used.
See :Category:Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering for examples of fellows {{Cite web|url=https://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|title=List of Fellows|website=raeng.org.uk|publisher=Royal Academy of Engineering|access-date=12 June 2020|archive-date=21 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521041125/https://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.engc.org.uk/news/press-releases/pr2019/academy-welcomes-leading-uk-and-international-engineers-as-new-fellows/|title=Academy welcomes leading UK and international engineers as new Fellows|website=engc.org.uk|publisher=Engineering Council}}{{cite web|url=https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/freng-honour-for-institution-members|website=imeche.org|title=FREng honour for Institution members|publisher=Institution of Mechanical Engineers}} and :Category:Honorary Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering for examples of honorary fellows, who use the post-nominal HonFREng.