PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERS:

(I) In order to maintain minimum standards of competence,

practical knowledge and skills of registered persons, the
following parameters shall be followed, namely:
a) For those engineers who have obtained requisite academic
qualification as per Section 14(1) of the Act and are employed
are in the field for gaining experience as required as per sub
section (1) of Section 14 of the Act for becoming qualified to
appear at the Examination of Professional Engineer (EPE) for
getting registered as PE with GCPCE shall have to earn five
credit points per year for getting qualified to appear at the
EPE;
b) Those engineers who possess academic qualification and
professional experience as provided in the sub section
(2)Section 14 of the Act, but are not exempted from appearing
at the exam as per sub section (2)of Section 14 of the Act,
shall have to earn Ten credits prior to appearing at EPE
during the initial transition period of 2 years. Such engineers
shall be eligible for appearing at EPE only after acquiring ten
credits. If they have already earned such credits during their
practice in part, it shall be considered and given due credit on
producing evidence.
c) All registered professional engineers are required to obtain five
credit points per year for renewal of registration after initial
registration.
(2) Additional credit points accumulated during any one year may
be carried over to s u b s e q u e n t years for renewal of
certificate of registration under the Act.
CATEGORIES OF CPD AND ITS ACCUMULATION:
(1)The CPD programmes include additional qualifications,
professional skills, relevant management and communication
skills acquired through additional training and experience.
These aspects are grouped into the following four different
categories of training, namely:
a) Formal education: Acquiring knowledge through accredited
engineering programmes and related education. Such
activities includes face-,o-face education, distance education
and others like diploma courses of a minimum six months
duration involving specialist presenters or resource persons
 who are external to the workplace;
b) Work based learning: It includes on -job learning that takes
place because of the workplace requirements on projects like
construction, operation, supervision at site, development of
computer programmes or software package, etc;
c) Developmental activities: It includes attendance of structured
educational or developmental meetings over a period of time
like conferences, workshops, seminars and refresher courses
from Council's approved bodies; and
d) Individual activities: Publications of technical articles in reputed
refereed journals, part time lecturing in an approved technical
institution, evaluation of dissertation at post graduate level as
external examiner and other participatory activities in the
Council's recognized technical associations or institutions
prescribed in Rules & Regulations
(2) CPD shall be accumulated in the aforesaid four categories as set
out in Annexure