The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB)
The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB)
Continuous Professional Development
In a rapidly evolving world where social and economic changes significantly impact our living and working environments and technological advancements introduce new ways of working, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a vital tool for staying informed, expanding skills, and enhancing professional effectiveness. CPD enables members of professional bodies to maintain, improve, and diversify their knowledge and skills, fostering the personal qualities necessary for their professional roles.
The primary goal is to develop engineers’ competence and capability to apply theoretical knowledge to practical situations, devise innovative solutions to real-world challenges, uphold professional ethics, and gain a deeper understanding of their responsibilities to society.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a commitment to lifelong learning. It encourages looking forward and identifying opportunities to learn something new, refresh existing knowledge, improve skills, or keep up with the latest developments within a particular profession or industry.
In practice, CPD can mean everything from taking a training course or attending an educational event to studying for new qualifications or learning new aspects of a job.
Continuing Professional Development enables learning to become conscious and proactive rather than passive and reactive. It involves individuals documenting and keeping a record of the increasing skills, knowledge, and experience they gain throughout their careers.
CPD combines different learning methodologies, including training courses, seminars, workshops, conferences and events, webinars, and online e-Learning programs. CPD can also include sharing best practice techniques, thoughts, and ideas, all focused on an individual improving within the work environment.
In all the cases, the lessons learnt should reflect his/her areas of current expertise or prospective field of work, and CPDs attained should be properly evidenced. A list of CPD activities and their corresponding weightages can be seen from the following Table:
CPD Activities and Weight Factor for Registered Engineer, domestic PEng, and IntPE holders
| Sl | CPD Activities | Unit/Period of Activity | Weight Factor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Convention/Conference/Seminar/ Symposium on Technical Issues (Please submit a 100-200-word summary of the learnings) s | Each Hour Attending Each Hour Presenting |
0.5 hour CPD 1.0 hour CPD |
| 2 | Training/ Workshop/ Short course/ Online Course/ Technical Meeting on Technical Issues (Please submit a 100-200-word summary of the learnings) | Each hour in attending Each Hour Presenting |
1.0 hour CPD 2.0 hour CPD |
| 3 | Publications in Technical conference proceedings (Please submit the abstract) | Each paper | 6 hours CPD (equally divided among authors) |
| 4 | Publication in recognized technical journals or publishing technical books (Scopus indexed, Web of Science (Clarivate) indexed. No indexing is required for a published book. But an ISSN or an ISBN is needed.) (Please submit the abstract) | Each paper/book | 24 hours CPD (equally divided among authors) |
| 5 | MSc Engineering or M Engineering or MBA theory courses for students (Please submit the syllabus) | Each credit hour | 3.0 days CPD |
| 6 | MSc Engineering or M Engineering theory courses for teachers, only for the first time offering the course (Please submit the syllabus) | Each credit hour | 6 hours CPD |
| 7 | Contribution to professional bodies (Please submit the meeting agenda | Each hour of attending a meeting, assessment, or report preparation | 1 hours CPD |
| 8 | Self-Study (National and International Codes, Journal Papers, Books of the Relevant Field. As evidence, please submit a 300–500-word report on what you learned by self-study.) | Each Hour of Self-Study (maximum 20 hours for Registered Engineer, 40 hours for Domestic Peng, and 80 hours for IntPE holders) | 0.25-hour CPD (Maximum 5 hours for Registered Engineer, 10 hours for Domestic Peng, and 20 hours for IntPE holders) |
(At least 20 hours CPD for Registered Engineers, 30 hours CPD for domestic PEng, and 50 hours CPD for IntPE holders must be achieved per year (January-December) and submitted by February in the next year)