Contributions to Knowledge

What are Contributions to Knowledge?

In the context of CPD, contributions to knowledge are activities that expand or develop the technical knowledge base in the engineering and geoscience professions.

It is one of the categories under which CPD hours can be claimed.

Contributions could include:

• developing published codes and standards through a technical, professional, or managerial association or society. Confidential codes of practice and standards created for a specific company or employer are to be claimed under Professional Practice (one hour of committee work equals one CPD hour)
• registering patents (credit can be claimed only once per patent at its filing date, and each patent registered equals 15 CPD hours)
• publishing papers in a peer-reviewed technical journal (each paper published equals 15 CPD hours)
• completing a thesis at the master’s or PhD level, on a one-time basis, upon successful defense and approval (each thesis equals 30 CPD hours)
• publishing a book (each book equals 60 CPD hours, claimed over two years)
• publishing articles in non-reviewed journals (each article equals 10 CPD hours to a maximum of 10 CPD hours per year)
• reviewing articles for publication (one hour of review equals one CPD hour to a maximum of 10 CPD hours per year)
• editing papers for publication (one hour of editing equals one CPD hour)

Up to 30 CPD hours per year may be claimed in this category, though the limits for each subcategory also apply, as noted above.