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Time to Go Back to School?

Posted January 15, 2011 7:00 AM

During this lousy economy, laid-off engineers returned to school for retraining, seeking jobs in more vibrant industries. Today, working engineers are also returning to school as job responsibilities shift and merge. Do you feel continuing education should be a requirement for all engineers, not just licensed engineers? Should there be core requirements for the types of continuing education by industry? Are the educational offerings keeping up with what's really happening in the world?

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01/15/2011 11:05 PM

Continuing professional development (CPD) is one of the essential requirements of working professionals to update the latest development . Learning is a continuous process. It can be either formal or informal such as reading technical articles and interacting with professionals in seminars etc.
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01/16/2011 11:02 AM

Without a governing (licencing) body to regulate or demand it, it becomes nothing but a resume padding merit badge hunt.

I know too many of my co-workers who would only spend half the year holding up their end, leaving me to shoulder all the load while they went off and got personal development training. The kicker comes down the road when I ended up working for those guys!

I developed a few very handy "work to rule" tricks as a result. But to get more information, you will have to buy my yet to be written book "Yusef's guide to not getting boned in the workforce". (wink)

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01/16/2011 2:29 PM

lol!

sign me up for one!
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01/16/2011 11:14 AM

that should be determined by each individual

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