Virtual Registrant Forum Brings Answers Into Focus

Registrants brought their top-of-mind questions to the Virtual Registrant Forum on March 4, where APEGA leaders shared answers and updates about the regulation of engineering and geoscience in Alberta.

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APEGA’s revised CPD requirements

APEGA recommends that all registrants read the revised Continuing Professional Development practice standard, published on November 1, 2025. Read the news post.

• The revised CPD requirements will be assigned to each licensed professional on their next annual renewal date after November 1, 2025, and compliance will be assessed after a licensed professional has completed one full CPD period under the new requirements. During this year’s transition to the new requirements, registrants do not need to submit their CPD hours for the previous year.
• The CPD requirements involve mandatory learning modules, which take an average of 10 hours total to complete, and a Personal Annual Competency Evaluation (PACE) plan, which is a licensed professional’s plan for and record of their CPD activities throughout the year. Feedback from licensed professionals on the new program has been positive.
• This shift provides more opportunity for licensed professionals to plan their CPD so it aligns with their needs in their roles, such as leadership and technical specialties, and it focuses on the quality, not quantity, of activities to support continuing competence.
• Completing CPD requirements is part of maintaining a good-standing status with APEGA and is mandatory under the Engineering and Geoscience Professions (EGP) Act, and it will be mandatory under the PGA under a new name: the Continuing Competence Program.

Professional Governance Act (PGA)

APEGA’s authority to regulate the professions is currently mandated by the EGP Act, which is set to be replaced by the PGA in March 2027. Read the latest news.

• Once the PGA comes into force for APEGA, non-practising registrants will move to a practising status, with the only additional responsibility being that individual registrants must participate in the Continuing Competence Program.
• Those previously non-practising registrants who are not actively influencing technical work and who have a restriction on their scope of practice may be subject to different CPD requirements.
• Updates will be communicated to registrants through the ePEG newsletter and regulatory emails.

Transfer of ASET professional technologists to APEGA

On October 17, 2025, APEGA signed a memorandum of understanding with ASET that will simplify the oversight of professional technologists under a single regulatory framework. Read the news post.

• This change is expected to occur when APEGA and ASET are continued under the PGA, subject to final approval from the Government of Alberta.
• Those with the professional technologist designation will be merged with professional licensees into a new, single designation, and they will retain their existing scope and right to independent practice—no different than how each APEGA professional licensee currently has their own individual scope of practice.
• As professional technologists have already completed the National Professional Practice Exam to become licensed, they will not be required to do so again. They will have to complete the same CPD requirements as other APEGA professionals and meet the same requirements outlined in APEGA’s publications.