Engineering professional context and CPD

Abstract

Engineers are the professionals that have intense and continuous lifelong learning (LLL) activities regulated by professional organizations, by employers and by official agencies. That is due to the obsolescence of competences and the need face new challenges. The dialogue between with LLL providers and users of the required continuing professional development (CPD) training is not structured in most of the cases. An analysis of a CPD survey among the engineering community of the federation of engineering professional organizations (FEANI) is made in terms of foreseeing methods and approaches to improve the communications between the LLL providers and engineering CPD consumers. Results are presented and discussed with conclusions providing content for a proposal of dialogue between LLL providers and users of CPD like engineers and employers.