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CPD Requirements for EA

Whether you are managing Australia’s 3-year rolling sub-quotas or meeting New Zealand’s annual 40-hour minimum, maintaining your professional engineering designation shouldn’t be an administrative headache. Browse individual courses or choose one of our curated course packages, specifically mapped to satisfy your local technical, risk, and management requirements in one place. The courses on LearnFormula count toward professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities and include downloadable materials and certificates of attendance. Note: It is the student's responsibility to validate whether an activity is an eligible educational activity for their professional development requirements based on their specific jurisdiction and learning needs.

Requirements Overview

Last updatedAug 21, 2026
scheduleCPD Requirement
150 / 3 years
calendar_clockLicense Renewal Period
June 30
cycleRequirements Cycle
Triennial
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15 CPD hours of Business and management skills10 CPD hours of Risk Management

Simplifying Regulations for 2026

Engineers Australia imposes the following CPD Hour requirements for those with Chartered or NER credentials: To get or keep these credentials, you need to complete at least 150 hours of professional development activities every three years.



If you work in one area of practice, breakdown of the specific hour requirement is as follows:

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  • 50 hours must relate to your area of practice
  • 10 hours must cover risk management
  • 15 hours must be about business and management skills
  • 75 hours must cover a range of activities relevant to your career interests.



If you work in more than one area of practice or area of engineering then you must record at least 50 hours for each area across the three-year period. If technical CPD activities overlap, then the same hours can be used for each area of practice.

For example, if you are Chartered or Registered for both civil and structural areas of practice or areas of engineering, the hour requirement would be broken down as follows:

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  • 50 hours to civil area of practice
  • 50 hours to structural area of practice
  • 10 hours for risk management
  • 15 hours for business and management skills
  • 40 hours for any other CPD activities.



If you’re an engineering academic or teacher, you must also demonstrate at least 40 hours of industry involvement in each three-year period.

CPD is any sort of training or learning that helps to expand your knowledge, maintain your technical skills and progress your engineering career. Good CPD should help you to:

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  • maintain your technical competence
  • retain and enhance your workplace effectiveness
  • learn good leadership skills and how to mentor others
  • successfully deal with career challenges
  • better serve the community.



CPD can be taken in many ways including formal, structured learning as well as private study. Engineers Australia has conditions around the types of CPD you complete towards your continued membership. CPD can be:

  • any tertiary course taken as an individual course or for a formal post-graduate award
  • short courses, workshops, seminars, conferences, technical inspections and meetings
  • workplace learning activities that extend competence in your area of practice or area of engineering
  • private study that extends your knowledge and skill
  • service to the engineering profession
  • preparation and presentation of materials for courses and conferences
  • tertiary teaching or academic research
  • structured activities that meet the objectives of the CPD policy.

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