Definitions

Assessment piece

A series of six questions all students must answer on Moodle, but only once they have completed all submissions they intend to make to their CPD in ePortfolio.

Category types

There are eight different categories for CPD experiences. Each experience must be categorised as either:

• Engineering Experiences (e.g. Co-op, IIP, work exp)
• Engineering Professional Development
• Engineering Curriculum
• Engineering Passive Experience
• Engineering Individual Project work
• Non-Engineering Experiences (e.g. work exp)
• Non-Engineering Professional Development
• Non-Engineering Curriculum"

CPD

Continuous Professional Development; the required professional practice unit ENG0001 (undergraduate) and ENG0003 (MPE) that will determine if you are ‘competent’ as an Engineering graduate who has developed a certain level of personal and professional skills outside the classroom by the end of your course.

Curriculum

Any experience outside the usual classroom hours that was completed as part of a Monash unit (such as working on group assignments, preparing for a class presentation, research undertaken for assignments, industry visits, final year projects (FYPs), Study Abroad/Exchange trips, etc) can be submitted to your CPD. Engineering-based Curriculum experiences are submitted on ePortfolio under the Engineering Curriculum category, while curriculum experiences from other Faculties are submitted under the Non-Engineering category. Note that you can only count a maximum of 70 hours of Engineering Curriculum and 70 hours of Non-Engineering Curriculum towards your CPD.

Dashboard

The name for the ‘main page’ on the ePortfolio website.

Deadline

The date by which students must have completed and uploaded their final assessment piece in Moodle. Your deadline will be 9:30am on Monday in Week 5 (with the exception of students completing in semester 1, 2025. This has been extended to week 7) of your final semester. Please be prepared for this deadline and have your ePortfolio Collection completed well before this point in your course.

Engineering-based Monash Clubs and Societies

If a Monash Club is Engineering-based, then activities spent organising (and/or attending) industry-themed events, or filling a role on the Committee, will come under Engineering Professional Development, unless the event being organised is specifically not Engineering-based  such as a social event.

Engineering-related

Any experience (anywhere in the world) that involves Engineering-related tasks/duties.

ENG CPD ePortfolio template

The ePortfolio Collection you submit once all of your CPD experiences have been entered into ePortfolio; it will contain every event, activity, hour, skill and reflection you have claimed in your CPD, and will be reviewed by a Monash academic to determine whether or not you’ve passed your CPD when you upload it to Moodle.

Experience

Any event or activity you ran, attended, participated in or undertook, where you developed or applied personal or professional skills (for example: paid work, volunteering, organising a social or club-related gathering, planning an assignment, attending a seminar, completing a short course, researching and giving a presentation to the class, attending professional training, tutoring children in maths, assistant-teaching a ballet class, coaching a local football team, participating in overseas aid work, being a member of the CFA or Army Reserves, etc). Please note that you must have been a Monash Engineering student while you undertook the activity in question.

Hours

The amount of time a student spent developing their professional skills as an experience.

Maximum requirements

There are no maximum amounts to what you can enter into your CPD; only maximum amounts (or put more clearly, ‘restrictions’) on how many hours from Engineering Curriculum and Non-Engineering Experiences can count toward you reaching your minimum requirements.

Minimum requirements

The minimum number of hours and skill reflections each student must reach before they will be deemed eligible to graduate (there is no maximum, so students are strongly encouraged to continue entering experiences and reflections even after reaching their minimum requirements).

Moodle

The online assignment-submission tool used at Monash University (through which your final CPD assessment piece is submitted, along with your supporting documentation and your Engineering CPD Collection from ePortfolio).

Non-Engineering-based Monash Clubs and Societies

If a Monash Club is not Engineering-based, then activities spent organising (and/or attending) events, or filling a role on the Committee, will fall into Non-Engineering Professional Development.

Non-Engineering-related

Any activity that is not Engineering related.

Professional development

The category for any experience that cannot be considered work experience or curriculum-based.

Reflections

You must reflect on 3 of these skills written to reflect the Engineers Australia competencies. You can submit more than this 3 if you wish (there is no maximum number of submissions), however you must choose from the 9 employability skills below.

The journal-style entry of your thoughts and experiences while you were developing your skills at each chosen event or activity. Each skill submitted (minimum of 3) must have its own reflection written against it.

Employability skills

There are 9 employability skills outlined below; you must reflect on 3 of these skills. They were written to reflect the Engineers Australia competencies. You can submit more than this 3 if you wish (there is no maximum number of submissions), however you must choose from the 9 employability skills.

• communication
• creativity and innovation
• initiative and enterprise
• professionalism
• planning and organisation
• problem identification and solving
• teamwork
• intercultural competence
• use of tools and technology.

ePortfolio

The website that allows you to log your CPD experiences.

Supporting documentation

Documents showing evidence of any larger CPD experiences (>35 hours) must be provided. Students will upload these documents into their experience records on the ePortfolio platform. The evidence you supply needs to show what the experience was, when it took place, how long it went for, and that you participated in it. There is more specific information about the kinds of documents that can be provided in the Supporting Documents section on the CPD website: No supporting documentation is required for experiences between 1 and 34 hours. For engineering related curriculum experiences between 35 and 70 hours you will need to provide a statement from your supervisor that lists the project and that you participated in it.

Verification

The process by which a Monash academic will decide which of your contact people’s details to follow up on to determine that your CPD claims (hours, activities, skills, etc) are not fabricated, exaggerated, or accidentally entered incorrectly. This includes reviewing the supporting documentation links provided in ePortfolio.

Work experience

Any activity that is based in a workplace (either paid or volunteering), and is therefore categorised as work experience, rather than professional development or curriculum. Such experiences are also commonly referred to as ‘placements’ or ‘internships’.