b'Member News July 2021 15Professional DevelopmentContinuing Professional Development (CPD)why is it important?By Stewart Edmondson CEng FIET CMgr FCMI, CEO of UK Electronics Skills Foundation and Professional Development Advisory Committee Chair.CPD, its how you keep up to date with current practice and standards, drives you to improve your skills, and demonstrates your commitment to the engineering profession.Keeping an up to date CPD record (ideally in Career Manager) helps show how youve developed your professional skills. It can also be invaluable when youre ready to advance in your career.TrainingWorkAcademicVolunteering Events andSelf studyHow to make CPD an inspiringcourses experience study seminarspart of your Professional Development: 2) At times, CPD can feel like a chore;My top IET CPD resources for 1)What do a book on German politicsits sometimes portrayed as a sortskills development and building and modern history, a webinar onof compulsory box ticking exerciseon your specialisms:developments in edge computing andassociated with mandatory training workshop on the ethics and safety ofcourses. However, being curious about Lifeskills workshops for soft skillsautonomous vehicles have in common?the world around us, keeping up to E-classes and free training webinarsThe answer is theyre all highlights of mydate with technological advances and recent CPD activities. understanding the topical issues in I ET Academyour field are all part and parcel of The IET have got everything you needbeing successful in our careers. TheyCPD is important as it stops us as to build your most exciting career. Fromcertainly have been in mine. individuals from being complacent. To keeping updated with current industryme, as a professional engineer, its part practices through training courses toMy top IET CPD resources of my DNA to continue to expand my improving your skills, its important toknowledge and to hone my practice. for keeping informed of After 30 years, my curiosity is still strong; maintain your CPDand the IET arelatest technical content: this forms the bedrock of my philosophy committed to helping you succeed. about CPD. To make it easier to remember whatE&T webinarscounts, use the TWAVES acronym. Technical webinars(see next column).IET.tv Find out more atIf you learn something newtheiet.org/cpd that could help you in3) This curiosity and thirst foryour career, then itknowledge, the asking counts as CPD. why? and how? areinnate characteristics ofall successful engineers.Being curious, askingquestions and havinga growth mind-setare the basis ofinnovation;theyre all atthe heart ofour profession.Enabling theseis what CPDis all about.'