Engineering Profession Act, 2000 (Act No. 46 of 2000)NoticesRules: Continuing Professional Development and Renewal of Registration, 2014Appendix A : Categories of CPD Activities |
Category 1: Developmental Activities:
Attendance of structured educational/developmental meetings will be credited with one credit per 10 hours of attendance. A full day activity will be regarded as being for 10 hours and a half-day activity will be regarded as 5 hours and hence a half a credit. A maximum of 4 credits (40 hours) may be accumulated annually under this category:
| • | Conferences |
| • | Congresses |
| • | Large group workshops |
| • | Lectures |
| • | Seminars |
| • | Refresher courses |
| • | Colloquiums |
Category 2: Work-based Activities:
Since registered persons also improve their knowledge and competence by performing their day-to-day engineering responsibilities, a weighting of one credit for every 300 hours per year for engineering related work (including management) is awarded for this category. A maximum of two credits for 600 hours per year may be earned in respect of this activity.
In addition, the mentoring of candidate persons in the workplace will be recognised as CPD with a maximum of 1 credit for 50 hours of mentoring per year. In-house skills training sessions organised by an employer/engineering company and career guidance for candidates may also be presented under this sub-category.
Category 3: Individual Activities
Membership of an ECSA recognised voluntary association (engineering society/institution or institute) will result in a maximum of 1 credit per annum.
Other activities include and will be credited as follows:
| • | Part-time lecturing to undergraduate and postgraduate students: one credit for every 10 hours of lecturing. |
| • | Supervision of students undertaking postgraduate studies: 2 credits per year. |
| • | Oral examinations of final year and postgraduate students: 1 credit for every 10 hours of active involvement. |
| • | Evaluation of M dissertations and PhD theses by external examiners: 2 credits per year. |
| • | Publication of research in peer reviewed journals: a single author: 2 credits per publication. Where paper has a number of authors: 1 credit per publication per author. |
| • | Publication of technical articles: 1 credit per article published. |
| • | Papers presented at conferences or congresses / poster presentations: 1 credit each |
| • | Participation in statutory, professional, institutional, technical or non-technical committees or task groups: one credit for every 10 hours of active participation. |
| • | Evaluation of educational programmes at Universities and Universities of Technology (Technikons) for accreditation purposes: 1 credit for every 10 hours of active involvement. |
| • | Evaluation of educational qualifications for ECSA's Qualifications Examination Committee: 1 credit for every 10 hours of active involvement. |
| • | Evaluation of competence and applications for registration for ECSA's Registration Committees and Professional Advisory Committees: 1 credit for every 10 hours of active involvement. |
| • | Relevant additional qualifications (these are exceptional allocations): A completed postgraduate qualification: 5 credits. |
| • | self-study which includes, but is not restricted to studying of journals or electronic or computerised material, one credit for every 10 hours of study. All activities under this item must be verified. |
A maximum of 3 credits (30 hours) may be accumulated under this portion of this category, with the exception stated above for postgraduate studies.