SIET Rules and Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) [Approved by Council on 14 November 2009]
Definition of CPD
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is defined as the systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skill, and the development of personal qualities necessary for the execution of professional and technical duties throughout the practitioner’s working life.
Each SIET - PD unit (PDU) is defined as equal to 3- hour of ‘CPD activities’ or its equivalent.
Requirements
Every practicing corporate members (MSIET, CertTS and FSIET, CertTS) must complete 20 PDUs in every consecutive period of 3 years.
To qualify as PDU, the CPD activities must be related to:
. Some art of the theory and practice of engineering and technology; or
. Other technical topics related to member’s current or potential occupation; or
. Personal or business skills designed to increase a member’s management or business efficiency.
CPD Activities
(a) Attendance or delivery of papers in talk, CPD lecture, seminar, conference, workshop, forum, in-house training session, etc. Site visits, if relevant, are included.
(b) Discussions, meetings, etc on technical topics. These should have some formalized structure such as a paper, video or tape, a competent person in charge of the proceedings, the subject matter announced in advance, and minutes of meetings to be kept etc.
(c) Full-time or part-time formal courses organized by colleges, polytechnics, universities, professional bodies, recognized course-providers and training institutes. A course of study leading to an additional higher qualification, e.g. BEng, MSc(Eng), MSc(IT), relevant to work and career development is recognized as a CPD event.
(d) Distance-learning or correspondence courses, supervised study packages, being a programme of reading or recorded lectures.
(e) Research work carried out in response to a work related problem for a client or leading to understanding of a new and relevant subject, etc may be included.
(f) Authorship of published works. These works normally should consist of technical or academic or academic articles published in a professional journal or other published form.
Definition of CPD
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is defined as the systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skill, and the development of personal qualities necessary for the execution of professional and technical duties throughout the practitioner’s working life.
Each SIET - PD unit (PDU) is defined as equal to 3- hour of ‘CPD activities’ or its equivalent.
Requirements
Every practicing corporate members (MSIET, CertTS and FSIET, CertTS) must complete 20 PDUs in every consecutive period of 3 years.
To qualify as PDU, the CPD activities must be related to:
. Some art of the theory and practice of engineering and technology; or
. Other technical topics related to member’s current or potential occupation; or
. Personal or business skills designed to increase a member’s management or business efficiency.
CPD Activities
(a) Attendance or delivery of papers in talk, CPD lecture, seminar, conference, workshop, forum, in-house training session, etc. Site visits, if relevant, are included.
(b) Discussions, meetings, etc on technical topics. These should have some formalized structure such as a paper, video or tape, a competent person in charge of the proceedings, the subject matter announced in advance, and minutes of meetings to be kept etc.
(c) Full-time or part-time formal courses organized by colleges, polytechnics, universities, professional bodies, recognized course-providers and training institutes. A course of study leading to an additional higher qualification, e.g. BEng, MSc(Eng), MSc(IT), relevant to work and career development is recognized as a CPD event.
(d) Distance-learning or correspondence courses, supervised study packages, being a programme of reading or recorded lectures.
(e) Research work carried out in response to a work related problem for a client or leading to understanding of a new and relevant subject, etc may be included.
(f) Authorship of published works. These works normally should consist of technical or academic or academic articles published in a professional journal or other published form.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programs - 2013
1. Fundamentals of Management Science
2. Fundamentals of Engineering Cost Estimation
3. Fundamentals of Engineering Economy
4. Project Evaluation Techniques
5. Engineering Ethics
Duration : 6 hours per CPD program; 2 evenings (Monday & Wednesday; 7.00pm – 10.00pm) or 2 Saturdays (3.00pm – 6.00pm)
Tuition Fee : S$100 per CPD program
Exam Fee : S$80 per sitting (Optional)
Awards:
1. Fundamentals of Management Science
2. Fundamentals of Engineering Cost Estimation
3. Fundamentals of Engineering Economy
4. Project Evaluation Techniques
5. Engineering Ethics
Duration : 6 hours per CPD program; 2 evenings (Monday & Wednesday; 7.00pm – 10.00pm) or 2 Saturdays (3.00pm – 6.00pm)
Tuition Fee : S$100 per CPD program
Exam Fee : S$80 per sitting (Optional)
Awards:
- Certificate of Attendance (COA) : A COA will be issued to those participants who achieve at least 75% of the total attendance of the CPD program.
- Certificate of Competency (COC) : A COC will be issued to those participants who achieve at least 75% of the total attendance and passed the ‘Assessment Test’ at the end of the CPD Program.
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