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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a collection of concepts, ideas, and tactics for managing your learning and development. CPD Statement refers to everything that allows you to broaden your knowledge, maintain current specialized abilities, and improve your engineering career. The CPD Statement places a strong emphasis on outcomes – the advantages that professional development may provide in the actual world. Support for CPD Statement activities might also help you expand your professional networks and contacts. Your CPD statement should be unique to you, no matter where you are in your career or what you aim to accomplish.

Elements of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) 

Engineers Australia describes Continuing Professional Development as having four major components (CPD).

1. Personal Dedication

This section explains how to behave oneself ethically and be accountable for your engineering efforts.

2. Community Obligations

This defines how you take part in group activities, manage risk, and develop long-term solutions.

3. Workplace Value

This refers to your capacity to be actively involved in the workplace and your decision-making and collaboration abilities.

4. Technical Expertise

This is how you demonstrate your engineering skills, creativity, expertise, and ingenuity.

Basic Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Requirements

Over the previous three years, the applicant’s CPD record should have reached at least 150 hours. Applicants must devote their labour hours according to the pattern below out of the 150 hours:

• At least 50 hours in your area of expertise
• At least 10 hours of risk management experience
• For at least 15 hours, company and management skills are required.
• The remaining hours will be used to cover the applicant’s actions during their career.

Academics and lecturers in engineering must demonstrate that they have completed at least 40 hours of CPD in a business context that fulfils the aforementioned criteria.

Continuing Professional Development Activities

1. Conferences, professional assessments, and technical gatherings, as well as short courses, lectures, forums, and discussion groups
2. A systematic postgraduate study that results in an award or particular tertiary course units that are not taken to obtain an award;
3. Independent research that broadens the scope of an applicant’s experience and abilities
4. Content planning and presentation preparation for courses, seminars, lectures, and conferences as a contribution to the engineering profession
5. Any additional formal activities that you participate in during your working hours

Engineers Australia recognizes four occupational categories. We have provided CPD Engineers Australia samples for each category.

1. Professional Engineer
2. Engineering Technologist
3. Engineering Manager
4. Engineering Associate