PD Activity Summary

Activity Categories and Levels of Effort

A credible continuing professional development program must define minimum levels of effort.  The unit of measure for this effort is the Professional Development Hour (PDH).  Engineers PEI recognizes six general activity categories as contributing to continuing professional development. These are listed below with corresponding PDHs and summarized in Table 1.

To meet the Engineers PEI Program requirement:

  • a member must accumulate an average of 80 PDHs per year, over a 3 year period, with a minimum of 60 PDHs in any year (unless a member has been granted an exception), and
  • the same activity cannot be included in more than one category.

 

Table 1 - Professional Development Activity Minimum Requirements

Category

Examples of Activities

PDHs Earned Ratio

Max. PDHs per Year

Professional

Practice

Professional engineering within scope of practice

1 PDH/

20 hours

40

Formal Activity

Structured courses or programs, including those provided by universities, colleges, industry and technical societies

1 PDH/ Contact Hour

30

Informal Activity

Unstructured courses; self-directed study; conferences; technical sessions; seminars; technical, professional & management meetings; structured peer discussions, etc.

1 PDH/

1 Hour

30

Technical Participation

Peer interaction as mentor, service on public bodies, service with technical societies, etc

1 PDH/ 1 Hour

20

Non-Technical Participation

Service on charitable, community, church, sports, school boards, government, etc.

1 PDH/ 1 Hour

10

Presentations

Technical and professional presentations at conferences meetings, workshops, seminars, courses, etc.

5 PDH/ Hour of Presentation

20

Contribution to Knowledge

Activities that expand or develop  knowledge such as development of codes and standards, patents, publishing technical information, editing papers, etc.

Various

(See section 3.3.6.)

30

 

 

Carry Over

The following conditions apply to the provision for carrying over excess PDHs from a reporting year for use in the following year.  The provision has the same objective as the averaging provision, i.e. to assist Members, Engineers-in-Training and Licensees in meeting the requirements of the Program in a year when, for one reason or another, they would otherwise experience difficulty in accumulating the requisite number of Professional Development Hours.

  1. PDHs carried forward from the previous year in a category may be claimed for the current reporting year (up to the maximum allowed per year) in that category.  Any PDHs carried forward from the previous year and not claimed in the reporting year will be nullified.
  2. If PDHs carried forward from the previous year are insufficient to claim the maximum allowed per year in a category, then PDHs earned in the reporting year, if any, must be used to claim the balance of the maximum allowed for that category.
  3. Only PDHs earned in the current reporting year that are not required for claiming the maximum allowed per year in a category may be carried forward to the next year.

Example:

 

 

Category

Maximum # of PDHs allowed per year

PDHs earned in current reporting year

PDHs carried over from previous reporting year

PDHs claimed for current reporting year (up to maximum)

PDHs from current reporting year carried to next year

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Column 4

Column 5

Column 6

Professional Practice

1 PDH/20 Hrs

40

72

59

40

72

Formal Activity

1 PDH/ 1Hr

30

29

17

30

16

Informal Activity

1PDH / 1 Hr

30

23

0

23

0

Technical Participation

1 PDH / 1 Hr

20

0

25

20

0

 

 It is the responsibility of the member submitting an Activity Summary to complete columns 3, 4, 5 & 6 for every category in which PDHs are being reported or claimed.

 

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