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VA Professional Engineers
The State of Virginia requires 16 hours of Continuing Education each year prior to the license renewal period.
-Licenses renew on the last day of the month two years from the date of issue.
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Virginia
Professional Engineer Continuing Education Requirements| Hours Required: | 16 PDH biennially |
| Renewal Deadline: | Licenses renew on the last day of the month two years from the date of issue. Licensees who renew or reinstate a PE license after March 31, 2010 must meet the new PDH requirement. |
| Carryover Allowed: | 0 |
| Course Approval: | The Board does not pre-approve providers or specific courses. Each engineer must determine whether an activity meets the Board's requirements. |
| Course Content: | •Content and subject matter: Continuing education activities must be related to practice of the profession of the license being renewed, have a clear purpose and objective that will maintain, improve, or expand the skills and knowledge relevant to the licensee's area of practice as defined in Chapter 4 (§ 54.1-400 et seq.) of Title 54.1 of the Code of Virginia. The required continuing education credit hours may be in areas related to business practices, including project management, risk management, and ethics, which have demonstrated relevance to the licensee's area of practice as defined in Chapter 4 of Title 54.1 of the Code of Virginia. •Curriculum: The curriculum of the continuing education activity must be consistent with the purpose and objective of the continuing education activity. •Sponsors and instructors: Sponsors of continuing education activities must have sufficient resources to provide the continuing education activity and documentation of completion of the continuing education activity to those individuals who successfully complete the continuing education activity. Course instructors must be competent in the subject being taught, either by education or experience. •Self-directed continuing education activity: There must be an assessment by the sponsor at the conclusion of the activity to verify that the individual has achieved the purpose and objective of the continuing education activity; credit will not be awarded if the individual has not successfully achieved the purpose and objective of the continuing education activity based upon the results of the assessment. |
| State Website: | http://www.dpor.virginia.gov/dporweb/ape_reg.pdf |
| Contact Info: | VA - Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Perimeter Center, Suite 400 9960 Mayland Drive Richmond, VA 23233 Tel: (804) 367-8500 |
| Valid Course Work: | a. Fifty contact minutes shall equal one continuing education credit hour. For a continuing education course or activity in which individual segments are less than 50 minutes, the sum of the segments shall be totaled for computation of continuing education credit hours for that continuing education course or activity. b. The sponsor of the continuing education activity must have predetermined the number of continuing education credit hours that an activity shall take to complete. A licensee cannot claim credit for more than the predetermined number of continuing education credit hours if the licensee took more than the predetermined number of hours to complete the continuing education activity. c. One semester credit hour of approved college credit shall equal 15 continuing education credit hours and one quarter credit hour of approved college credit shall equal 10 continuing education credit hours. d. For self-directed continuing education activity, there must be an assessment by the sponsor at the conclusion of the activity to verify that the individual has achieved the purpose and objective of the continuing education activity; credit will not be awarded if the individual has not successfully achieved the purpose and objective of the continuing education activity based upon the results of the assessment. e. A licensee may be granted credit for the initial development or substantial updating of a continuing education activity or his initial teaching of a course that otherwise meets the requirements of this chapter at twice the amount of credit that students of the course or activity would receive. Additional credit for subsequent offerings of the course or activity with the same content will not be permitted. f. A licensee will not receive credit for completing the same continuing education activity with the same content more than once during the license period immediately prior to the expiration date of the license for renewal or during the two years immediately prior to the date of receipt of a complete reinstatement application. |
| Recordkeeping: |
Individuals shall maintain records of completion of continuing education activities that comply with the requirements of this chapter for three years from the date of expiration of the license for which the continuing education activities are being used to renew the license. Individuals shall provide such records to the board or its duly authorized agents upon request. |