BY DYLAN ALBERGO, PE, FBPE Chair (2024)
All Florida Professional Engineers must use the NCEES CPC Tracking system to report their continuing education. But what happens when you receive only one certificate for multiple CE courses?
First, it’s important to check to make sure that the courses and credit hours that you took match up with what is shown on the certificate. If they don’t, you should contact your CE provider immediately and have the certificate corrected.
Next, log into your NCEES CPC Tracking account and begin adding courses and documentation. Below is what the NCEES CPC Tracking landing page looks like:
For the most part, entering your certificate information will be relatively simple. If you have been issued one certificate from a conference (or other CE provider) that includes multiple CE credits for various courses/seminars that you completed, a little more input effort will be required.
For example, Paul (an engineer whose area of practice is in bridges) received one certificate from the very prestigious Engineering 101 conference that included three CE credits. One CE credits each was earned for attending the Engineering Ethics, Bridge Engineering 101, and AI in Engineering courses. Paul will need to input each course separately but upload the certificate only once (to any of the three courses taken). See his inputs below:
In this example, Paul decided to upload his certificate to the “Engineering Ethics” course as indicated by the document icon next to the Course Title (below, circled in red), and his three courses correctly add up to the three CE credits issued on his certificate. See below:
Please note that NCEES doesn’t use the same descriptions as FBPE for the types of continuing education that you must take. When adding courses, select the appropriate description in the “Area” dropdown menu:
- “Ethics” for your ethics course;
- “Laws and Regulation” for your Florida laws and rules course;
- “Technical” for courses related to your area of practice; and
- “Any” for courses related to any topic pertinent to the practice of engineering.
FBPE’s website has step-by-step instructions for setting up your CPC Tracking account and reporting your continuing education.
If you need assistance, please contact CEdesk@fbpe.org or (850) 521-0500.
Dylan Albergo, PE, of Tampa, specializes in bridge design and engineering project management. He has served as FBPE chair since 2023 and was its vice chair in 2022. He chairs the special inspector rules committee and serves on the application review and the FEMC operations committees.