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CPD - Requirement and Determination of PDU

Requirement: A minimum of 40 PDUs over a renewal

qualifying period of 12 months, of which a
minimum of 15 PDUs must be from structured
activities.

Determination: Based on the Tables 1 - Structured Activities

and Table 2 - Unstructured Activities as
shown below.

Table 1 - Structured Activities

CATEGORY CRITERIA PDUs

Category Relevant post-graduate or diploma

courses on engineering and/or
1(a):
construction/project management.
1 PDU for
Accredited each
formal Example: contact
study hour
courses
a. MSc (Engineering)
b. MSc (Project Management)

Category Lectures, short courses, conferences,

workshops & seminars which are relevant
1(b):
for professional engineers on technical,
management, professional development,
Accredited legal or regulatory matters.
lectures,
short
courses, Examples: 1 PDU for
conferences, each
workshops contact
& a. Seminars on regulatory
hour
seminars requirements by government
agencies eg. BCA, FSB, ENV,
LTA, etc.
b. "Engineers and the Law" by
IES
c. Workshops and seminars on
engineering topics by NUS or
NTU

Viewing of accredited video recordings of

Category 1(b) activities online. These
include lectures, short courses,
E-training:
conferences, workshops & seminars
Accredited Online
which are relevant for professional
lectures, short 0.5 PDU for
engineers on technical, management,
courses, each contact
professional development, legal or
conferences, hour
regulatory matters.
workshops &
PDU obtained from E-training will be
seminars
limited to 5 PDU only and excess cannot
be carried forward to next qualifying
period.

Category Structured in-house training which are

relevant to professional engineers on
1(c):
technical, management, professional 1 PDU for
development, legal or regulatory matters. each
Accredited contact
in-house hour
training (CV of speakers to be similar to category
1(a) or 1(b).)

Category a) Member of Boards of local

Professional institutions or
2:
relevant government agencies.

Participation
in Examples: 8 PDUs
Professional per

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Boards, i. Board Member of BCA, organisation
Committees LTA, HDB, URA, JTC,
and PEB and BOA
Societies ii. Council Member ACES
and IES

b) Member of relevant technical or

working committees of
professional associations and
government agencies.

4 PDUs
Examples: per
Committee
i. Member of Technical
Committees of
government (Maximum
departments and for this
Statutory Boards; category is
ii. Member of technical or 8 PDUs)
other working
committees of ACES &
IES;
iii. Member of approved
technical societies.

Category a) Conduct accredited lectures, 4 PDUs for

seminars, conferences or training each
3:
courses for the first time. lecture
(Exclude regular lectures by full- hour or
Contribution time lecturers) part
to thereof
relevant
engineering b) Conduct accredited lectures, 2 PDUs for
or seminars, conferences or training each
management courses after the first time. lecture
Knowledge (Exclude regular lectures by full- hour or
time lecturers) part
thereof

c) Write or edit technical articles or

papers published in distinguished
5 PDUs for
publications, conference
each topic
proceedings, professional journals
or books.

d) Engineering patents registered 15 PDUs

during the year for each
patent

Table 2 - Unstructured Activities

CATEGORY CRITERIA PDUs

Category i) Reading of relevant technical, 1 PDU for

professional, financial, legal or every 2
A:
business literature.
hours
Self study
of ii) Listening/viewing audio/video (Maximum
relevant tapes on relevant topics or taking for this
topics correspondence courses. category is
16 PDUs)

Category i) Conducting informal in-house 1 PDU for

training and presentations to every 2
B:
colleagues.
hours
Informal
In-house (Maximum
training ii) Attending informal in-house for this
and training and presentations. category is
discussion 16 PDUs)

Category i) Membership of professional 2 PDUs

engineering or management per
C:
bodies.
organisation

Professional
Membership (Maximum
for this
category is
16 PDUs)

Category i) Attending professional and

technical courses which are not
D: 1 PDU for
accredited.
every 2

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Non-
ii) Attending organised group hours
accredited
engineering technical site visits and
activities exhibitions.
(Maximum
for this
category is
16 PDUs)

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