Professional development is a continuous process of learning and
improvement. It plays a crucial part in achieving and maintaining
engineering competence. Anyone wishing to be registered with the
Engineering Council must demonstrate competence and commitment
through the professional review process.
Professional development generally takes place in a working
environment and builds on knowledge and understanding acquired
through formal education. However, it is not necessarily separate
from education and the two processes may be integrated, for example
in work-based degree programmes or Advanced Apprenticeships.
What our Standards say
UK-SPEC and the ICTTech Standard set out the required
standards of competence and commitment for each professional
qualification. They also:
- include examples of the sort of activities that could
demonstrate that the required standard has been met
- emphasise the achievement of outputs defined by competence and
commitment statements
- support progression within the registration structure
- recognise that professional development in the workplace can be
integrated with meeting educational requirements for
registration
- stress that professional development is a continuous process
throughout one's career