Professional Development for Engineers

The Association requires that Professional Engineers and Limited Engineering Licencees accumulate a minimum of thirty (30) PDHs (professional development hours) per year. This must be submitted on or before December 31st of each year using the online Member Portal. The program allows CPD to be completed in four areas of learning: Ethical Practice All registrants are required to complete and claim a minimum of 2 PDHs per year in Ethical Practice Learning. Regulatory All registrants are required to complete and claim a minimum of 1 PDH per year in Regulatory Learning. Technical Activities in this category must be related to advancing a registrant’s technical and professional knowledge and skills. Communication and Leadership Communication and leadership learning is related to advancing a registrant’s professional abilities including leadership, communication, team-building, management and other nontechnical knowledge and skills.

The number of CPD hours you must complete depends on the number of target CPD hours assigned to you following your practice evaluation. The maximum target is 30 hours per year but you can report more CPD hours than your target. In 2024, CPD admissibility criteria will be expanded to include supplementary learning (such as project management, business management, communications, health and safety, etc.) that supports core engineering practice activities. Note: Eighty per cent of your required CPD hours must come from core engineering learning.