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You want to stay relevant and competent in your profession or simply catch up with the latest developments in your field? Then register for a course with us! We offer practice-orientated short courses in the fields of engineering and the built environment.

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Courses, twice approved

Access UCT training while keeping your professional credits on track. Our CPD courses are university approved short courses. They are also registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) for the award of CPD points.

Learn with experts and peers

Our courses are designed to keep practitioners abreast with research and developments in their field and respond to professional challenges and contexts. The course facilitators are academics and guest lecturers of UCT’s EBE Faculty, who are considered experts in their domain.

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Custom courses and events

Located at UCT’s New Engineering Building, we are geared to provide custom experiences at a range of teaching and event facilities. From lecture halls to seminar rooms, from laboratories to conference venues. On request, courses can also be arranged for off-campus locations.

Welcome to the website of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programme. We are affiliated to the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town. A team of dedicated staff organise short courses, workshops and small conferences. The events provide a means for the ongoing education of professionals and technical staff, outside of the formal academic courses offered at UCT for degree purposes.

COVID-19 Announcement

Please note that due to current limitations as a result of COVID-19, many of our courses have been postponed or will be offered in distance-learning formats. If you would like information regarding a specific course, please email us at ebe-cpd@uct.ac.za

GetSmarter online courses will continue as scheduled. Please visit the website www.getsmarter.com

Topic areas

Our courses cater for a range of interests:

Architecture, Planning and Geomatics

Civil Engineering

Construction Economics and Management

Chemical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

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What others say

Feedback from our course participants:

The course really enhanced my understanding of the subject and that of the mining and processing industry.
Process Mineralogy, 2017; Dept. of Chemical Engineering course, Centre for Minerals Research

Great course and excellent teachers – will definitely recommend attending a CPD courses to colleagues.
Introduction to Machine Learning, 2017; Dept. of Electrical Engineering course

The lectures were really well delivered.
Housing Finance Course for sub-Saharan Africa, 2017; Dept. of Construction Economics and Management course, partnership between the UCT Nedbank Urban Real Estate Research Unit, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, supported by the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa

Why CPD at UCT?

About UCT and the EBE Faculty

The University of Cape Town (UCT) is the top university in Africa according to the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings. Each department has teaching staff who are experts in their fields and are active researchers; UCT has a large number of engineering research-rated academics.

The Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment (EBE) has strong links with industry and government, which commission and fund significant research projects. Our commitment to teaching and research excellence is matched by our commitment to addressing social challenges through various research interests.

The faculty has an illustrious legacy, with many of its alumni occupying powerful positions in the engineering and built environment industry, as well as the business world and politics.

The CPD Programme

The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programme offers short courses, workshops and conferences as ongoing education for professionals.

Engineering professionals registered in South Africa are required to undertake CPD activities in terms of agreements between the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and international engineering bodies.

This requirement is aimed at helping professionals keep abreast of developments and knowledge in their fields of expertise to maintain and demonstrate their competence. This is also a requirement for the renewal of their professional registration.

Who should attend?

Although many of the courses are specifically designed for professionals, students and the general public will greatly benefit from attending many of the CPD courses.

Generally, there are no formal academic qualification entrance requirements to CPD courses. In some cases, some prerequisite knowledge may be required. A certificate of attendance or of successful completion (where an examination is passed) is normally issued.

Some courses may be undertaken outside of normal working hours, while others may require attendance for a number of days on a full-time basis. Courses may also be run on an in-house basis for companies, if requested.

One of the core aspects of our vision as a faculty is to develop outstanding graduates and scholars, who contribute to society and address socioeconomic challenges through their work. I believe that our UCT graduate engineers and professionals of the built environment are ideally equipped to rise to the complex challenges and global problems of the 21^st century.

Professor Alison Lewis
Dean: Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment

For your records

Looking for CPD points and/or ECSA particulars of a course you attended in the past? See here: courses 2018 and later | courses 2017 and prior

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