Professional Members are required to complete 240 mandatory PDHs every 3 years, inlcuding 1 hour of Ethics. A maximum of 30 PDH can be claimed for Formal learning. All PDHs should be technical in nature under the Formal Activity. You are required to indicate only the number of PDHs you claimed for your professional development activities in the 12 months prior to your membership (registration) renewal date.

Professionals are required to complete 60 CE Hours in any of the Areas of Learning, at the Registrant’s discretion, or 20 hours a year on average; and Designated Structural Engineers (i.e., registrants with the specialty Struct.Eng. designation) must complete an additional 60 CE Hours directly related to their structural engineering area(s) of practice, for a total of 120 CE Hours in every 3-year period.

Areas of learning defined in the new CE Program include regulatory, ethical, technical, and communications and leadership. Practising registrants must complete the Regulatory Learning Module and at least 1 hour of ethical learning each year. Areas of learning defined in the new CE Program include: Technical Learning, Ethical Learning, Regulatory Learning, Communications and Leadership Learning.

You must maintain a total of at least 240 PDHs over three years. The following are the six categories in which you may earn credit for professional development: • Professional Practice • Formal Activity • Informal Activity • Participation • Presentations • Contributions to Knowledge

Max credit hours: 90 per 3-year period

1 hour of course attendance = 1 credit hour

1 course offering Continuing Education units = 10 credit hours

Formal activities are often for academic credit and may include an evaluation. If there is no evaluation, you may claim credit for activities that are longer than a half day. They include:

You are required to renew your annual membership on-line through the website portal by December 31 of each year. You can earn a maximum of 30 PDHs each year in the category Formal Activity.

All professional members are required to complete eighty (80) hours of professional development (PD) annually. You are required to take a minimum of two (2) profession development hours under the category of Ethical Practice. A maximum of 40 PDHS each year can be earned in the category Formal Activity.

Your program should be designed to address any required knowledge and skills maintenance, or improvement, as well as acquisition of new abilities that contribute to your personal and professional growth in accordance with your career goals.

The program defines six (6) activity categories and indicates the minimum levels of effort required to meet the program recommendations in each category. These required levels of effort are defined by units referred to as Professional Development Hours (PDH’s). Accumulation of a total of 240 PDH’s is recommended over a three-year period.

A maximum of 30 PDHS each year can be earned in the category Formal Activity. 

Members have to claim 80 CPD annually of which 40 can be claimed through courses. Every 20 hours of professional work activity qualify as one (1) PDH. The member may claim a maximum of 50 total PDHs per year for this activity. Professional work in one’s area of practice is a significant factor in demonstrating competence. Most members directly practice engineering or manage the direct practice of engineering. Some members may be working in management positions in organizations where engineering is a factor, but they may not be directly managing engineering.

Formal Education Every one (1) hour of activity qualifies as one (1) PDH. For courses offering recognized Continuing Education Units (CEUs), one (1) CEU equals ten (10) PDHs. The member may claim a maximum of 40 PDHs per year for this activity. Formal education activities include structured courses or programs that may be for credit and should have an evaluation process. Formal education activities may include but are not limited to: - Professional development programs, courses and seminars. - Courses offered by universities, technical institutes, colleges, suppliers, employers and technical societies. - Courses offered in traditional classroom settings, by correspondence, video or online. - Courses that expand one’s technical skills (ex. software) or workplace certifications (ex. safety). Refresher courses or certification renewals are not eligible activities.

The PEAK program is designed to help PEO licence holders (both practising and non-practising) remain competent as engineers through completion of the continuing professional development program’s three elements: practice evaluation, ethics module and continuing knowledge declaration. Continuing professional development for licence holders is in keeping with PEO’s regulatory, public protection mandate as set out in the Professional Engineers Act.

Beginning in January 2023, PEO is launching a mandatory continuing professional development (CPD) program based on its current, optional Practice Evaluation and Knowledge (PEAK) program. As of January 2023, all PEO licence holders (both practising and non-practising) will be required to comply with the program. The existing, voluntary PEAK program will be discontinued as PEO transitions towards the mandatory CPD program.

A CPD activity will be deemed admissible for the program if the learning content covered by the activity is intended to help the licence holder reduce their professional practice risks. Specifically, the activity must meet these criteria:

A licence holder will choose CPD activities that meet admissibility criteria as well as their preferred learning format. In other words, the program will recognize all learning formats equally: from instructor-led to self-paced activities; from in-person to virtual activities; from locally-led to globally-led activities; and from no-cost to paid activities. Learning formats include engaging in self-paced study or reading, attending a seminar or a course, delivering a lecture or presentation, developing engineering guidelines, or participating in technical mentoring.

You must accumulate an average of 80 PDHs per year, over a three-year period, with a minimum of 60 PDHs in any year. Members with Part-Time PD Status must accumulate a minimum of 40 PDHs per year of Part-Time PD Status. A maximum of 30 PDHS each year can be earned in the category Formal Activity. 

Professional Members are required to complete 80 mandatory PDHs annually, including 1 hour of Ethics. A maximum of 30 PDH can be claimed for Formal learning.