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CPD Resources

Engineers and Geoscientists NB wants to provide registrants with as many opportunities as possible to ensure they are meeting their professional development hours (PDH). In order to meet these conditions, options such as online courses, different types of branch events, videos and webinars, to name a few, are available to provide professional registrants with the hours needed to comply with the CPD Program. To learn more about the requirements of the CPD Program, review the Continuing Professional Development Guidelines.

Important items to note:

  • If you are compliant with another engineering/geoscience regulator’s CPD program, you can request an exemption from our program by emailing registration@apegnb.com.
  • MITs and Licencees are not required to submit unless specifically requested to do so. 
  • Retired Members are exempt from submitting CPD records. 

To help you with completing your hours, the following resources are available for your use:

  • Engineers & Geoscientists BC webinars, online courses and videos.
  • WINSETT (Canadian Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, Trades and Technology)
  • ZenTek Consultants
  • Masry Leclerc Collaborations Inc.
  • Engineering Institute of Canada
  • Ontario Society of Professional Engineers conference (Nov 2022)
  • Geologize Practical Communications Course
  • Reconciliation Education

Other information you may find helpful when reporting your CPD activities:

  • Professional Practice
    • One PDH can be claimed for each 20 hours of professional practice to a maximum of 40 PDHs per year.
    • Up to 5 PDH per year can be claimed for a creating a CPD plan.
  • Engineers and geoscientists who have practiced for 30 or more years can claim a credit of 20 PDH towards the maximum of 40 PDH.
  • Formal Activity
    • A seminar/presentation is considered to be formal if there are set learning outcomes that can be demonstrated to have been covered, for example an evaluation at the end, certificate, copy of the syllabus, etc.
    • Any seminars over ½ day in length may be considered to be formal as well.
  • Participation
    • Participation is volunteering, mentoring, and service to the professions/the public at large. Examples include:
      • Acting as a mentor to a member-in-training;
      • Service on committees of technical, professional, or managerial associations or societies;
      • Service on public bodies that draw on professional expertise (planning and regulatory boards and service commissions, investigative commissions , etc.);
      • Activities that contribute to the community or religious organizations;
      • Elected public service at the municipal, provincial or federal level.
  • Development of published codes and standards, where 1 hour of committee work earns 1 PDH.
  • Patents, where each patent earns 15 PDHs.
  • Publication of papers in peer-reviewed technical journals, where each paper earns 15 PDHs.
  • Publication of articles in non-peer reviewed journals, where each article earns 10 PDHs.
  • Reviewing or editing articles or manuals for publication where each hour spent in the review or editing process earns 1 PDH.

PDH = Professional Development Hour
CEU = Continuing Education Unit
CPD: Continuing Professional Development

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