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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD)

Suggested Procedure for Professional Engineers

(Excludes periods of full-time education & retirement)

1. Outline a development action plan for your whole intended professional career, split into practicable stage segments each lasting for a period ranging from a few months to a few years.
2. Choose, probably from the suggested topic range listed*, a selection of relevant professional CPD study activities that may practicably be undertaken on an ongoing basis throughout your working career.
3. Review your choices with a fellow professional mentor, colleague, or friend.
4. Prepare a blank tabular record, possibly using the pro-forma suggested*, & partitioned into years, to record details of stages of your plan & your achievements.
5. Populate your tabular record with your plan proposals, with your achievements against these, & with your assessments of quality, relevance, & outcome.
6. Collect & retain, for possible inspection & submission, suitable documentary evidence of your CPD activity undertaken.
7. Print your tabular CPD record as & when required (at least annually), & sign your printed copies.
8. Submit your signed copies of your printed tabular CPD record annually, or as required, to the Society of Professional Engineers for review & retention on your personal professional file.
9. Request & receive periodically confirmation from the Society of Professional Engineers that your Professional Registration has been duly maintained.
10. Reflect, with satisfaction & pride, on your professional standards & the style with which your career is managed & conducted.

Hugh Wynne FSPE, Glasgow, Thursday 25 May 2006

* Clauses 2 and 4 above refer to a report on Continuing Professional Development. This report and its associated Plan document are available from the Documents page.

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