Today I jump started my car for the first time ever. Could this constitute CPD?
I mean, okay, it's fairly straightforward, but I did have to check how to do it, and it does involve a small amount of knowledge about batteries and electricity.
The professional part of CPD is all about the knowledge and experience you gain, that's useful enough to aim for professional registration, but more importantly, get you a better paid job.
After all, there's your amateur who's takes a keen and professional approach to their hobby, e.g Astronomy; and then there's your professional engineer who does it for the money.
CPD is about the enhancement of knowledge for the paid engineer.
And now for, a fist full of dollars more.
If everyone did their CPDs online, year in, year out; then it stands to reason that the IET is investing a lot in technology - data servers and storage devices- either in house or rental.
Which ever way, it is certainly an expensive investment. And of course, anything that's expensive at a recurring rate will mean someone will have to foot the annual bill. Guess who that is? Or guess who's annual subscription fees are going up?
There are CEng and IEng registered engineers (in addition to other members) who have resigned or are thinking of resigning from the IET and EC, because they either cannot keep up with the annual subscription charges, or cannot see the justification for the annual rises.
Registered engineers doing their annual CPD earn the same as non-registered engineers. Doing your CPD is ultimately both a waste of time and resources. But in the words of one of Elvis Presley's song: "wise men say, only fools rush in" to madcap ideas.
The professional part of CPD is all about the knowledge and experience you gain, that's useful enough to aim for professional registration, but more importantly, get you a better paid job.
After all, there's your amateur who's takes a keen and professional approach to their hobby, e.g Astronomy; and then there's your professional engineer who does it for the money.
CPD is about the enhancement of knowledge for the paid engineer.
And now for, a fist full of dollars more.
If everyone did their CPDs online, year in, year out; then it stands to reason that the IET is investing a lot in technology - data servers and storage devices- either in house or rental.
Which ever way, it is certainly an expensive investment. And of course, anything that's expensive at a recurring rate will mean someone will have to foot the annual bill. Guess who that is? Or guess who's annual subscription fees are going up?
There are CEng and IEng registered engineers (in addition to other members) who have resigned or are thinking of resigning from the IET and EC, because they either cannot keep up with the annual subscription charges, or cannot see the justification for the annual rises.
Registered engineers doing their annual CPD earn the same as non-registered engineers. Doing your CPD is ultimately both a waste of time and resources. But in the words of one of Elvis Presley's song: "wise men say, only fools rush in" to madcap ideas.
