Professional development

Professional development is the acquisition of knowledge and skills and the development of personal qualities. It plays a crucial part in achieving and maintaining your engineering competence, and that of your employees.

Professional development generally takes place in a working environment and draws on knowledge and understanding, training and experience. However, it is not necessarily separate from education and the two processes may be integrated, for example in work-based degrees or apprenticeships.

Professional development in engineering is usually described in relation to achieving and maintaining registered status as set out in the UK Standard for Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC) and the ICTTech Standard.