I am licensed as a Professional Engineer (PE) and Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) in the Commonwealth as well as a (PE) in North Carolina and a (PLS) in Maryland. Both North Carolina and Maryland have adopted continuing education of registrants. I have found these requirements to serve of NO VALUE in enhancing my career. The only benefit provided is to increase sales and profits to Companies that provide the courses. As an example, I looked at an online course on site design. This courses was plagiarized directly from a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Field Manual (FM) dated back to the 1960's and 1970's. The cost was in the range of Three Hundred dollar range ($300).  Is there any VALUE in taking this course? Having over twenty years experience in civil-site engineering I say NOT!

Any responsible professional is going to stay abreast of developing technologies, equipment, products, trends and legislation. Avoiding this responsiblity is negligence on the registant's part and opens the door to possible lawsuits. The Commonwealth needs to let the market place police the profession. Those that aren't responsible will ultimately be driven out of business by the consumer.

I agree with one of the previous comments provided regarding Ethics. You can teach ethics all day and if the individual has not been raised with ethical principles then it would be a rare occassion to convert ones personality based on one course in ethics.

These reasons NOT to have continuing education requirements are sound. Other practical reasons for NOT having this requirement are the additional time spent on courses that will NOT produce significant value to our profession. We all have far to much on our plates and to require additional time to be "wasted" is again no value to the professional.

I strongly urge the Department  NOT adopting this policy to require Professionals to take required continuing education courses for license renewal.