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Allan Rowan

To satisfy my own curiosity, I recently compared my declared CPD hours with the average CPD hours. For an equivalent Membership Type and EC Type, the average number of CPD hours was 113; however in comparison, the hours I had declared was a paltry 36. I sign up for the seminars and in-house training sessions where my availability allows. My question, borne out of curiosity; what is everyone else doing (which I'm not) to achieve an average of 113 hours within their declared CPD?

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  • Another one which I really should have thought of - since I've been spending this week doing it - is delivering training or mentoring. Not if it's routine of course, but for example the training I was giving this week was to a client who worked under an organisational and legislative regime that I was not wholly familiar with, so I was having to adapt it to them and listen almost as much as I talked. This was a fairly extreme case (it was an early trial of a course I'd written for the client, so as I was delivering I was thinking about how I could improve it), but works at a much smaller level. For example, spending an hour reading a technical manual on a piece of equipment and then spending an another hour explaining it to a junior member of staff could be 2 hours CPD if that second hour was helping you to really embed it in your head (and understand where their misunderstandings lay), as training and mentoring often does.

  • in reply to Andy Millar

    It's something I have to do better and that's take time to stop and reflect (which I don't do often enough). Between supporting various Clients/ projects and a foster carer when I'm not in the office, I've not stopped to take stock. I've been looking at CPD's all wrong, almost in a single dimension (training, seminars etc.) - the points you've made in your response are characteristics which I normally exhibit (i.e., mentoring, volunteering, exposure to new technology etc.); 1 - because I want to and, 2 - because it is also anticipated of me (normal behaviour for an experienced engineer).

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  • in reply to Andy Millar

    It's something I have to do better and that's take time to stop and reflect (which I don't do often enough). Between supporting various Clients/ projects and a foster carer when I'm not in the office, I've not stopped to take stock. I've been looking at CPD's all wrong, almost in a single dimension (training, seminars etc.) - the points you've made in your response are characteristics which I normally exhibit (i.e., mentoring, volunteering, exposure to new technology etc.); 1 - because I want to and, 2 - because it is also anticipated of me (normal behaviour for an experienced engineer).

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  • in reply to Allan Rowan
    Allan Rowan said:
    because I want to

    I was thinking after I'd written all the above that this has always been my real motivation for CPD - and indeed for being an engineer - i's just because I'm interested in stuff. So I've never found it a problem justifying CPD time, my frustration (and occasionally in my career my employer's / manager's frustration with me) tends to be the pesky day job getting in the way of wanting to explore the interesting new thing I've just found out!

    The engineers that could struggle are those that see their career as a straight nine to five way of earning enough to retire (which is absolutely fair enough), an occupation rather than a vocation, and I think it's for anyone with that mindset that it's really focussed on - just knowing what you were taught when you were 20 is not going to be good enough when you're 60, or even when you're 25.

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