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.
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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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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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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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:
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EngHours courses are built around relevant, verifiable content that can be applied toward EA CPD hours. As with any provider, it remains the member's responsibility to confirm an activity fits their own professional development needs before claiming it.