Engineers Australia's calendar of activity for young engineers contains two pieces of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) content each month created to support, develop and grow early career engineers. The calendar is made up of three series: the YEA Professional Skills Series, YEA Data Visualisation Series and the YEA Collaboration Series.
YEA Professional Skills Series
The Young Engineers Professional Development series has been put together exclusively by young engineers for young engineers and is designed to support you on your career journey into the professional world.
The series aims to provide educational content that bridges the gap between what you learn at university and what you need to know in the workplace by delivering learning opportunities that you can practically apply on the job.
YEA Data Visualisation Series
In our increasingly data-driven world, it’s more important than ever to have accessible ways to view and understand data. The demand for data skills in employees is increasing each year and it is becoming essential for employees to understand data and its impact and to develop the skills and ability to present data to non-technical audiences.
YEA Collaboration Series
The YEA Collaboration Series has been created to provide young engineers with insights into how they can effectively interact with other professions within the scope of their day-to-day roles.
It is designed to provide practical tips, reference points and takeaways that can be used to help facilitate more constructive communication and interaction.
Record your CPD
Keeping an online record of your CPD just got easier. Engineers Australia has upgraded its online CPD recording platform to simplify how you keep your logs up-to-date and ready for your next audit.
Click here to find more about how to access the upgraded CPD recording platform.
How to record your CPD: Login to your EA portal account to record your CPD. Go to the MyEA tile or tab and select Record CPD.
Watch all the previous YEA CPD webinars on EA OnDemand!
- YEA Professional Skills Series
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The basics of business development and sales
Your guide to pitching as an engineer
Elevate your emotional intelligence for career success
Time Management under Pressure
Fast-track Onboarding: How to Move Quickly in your New Job
Competency Without Tears (or Liability): The Pathway for Ethical, Professional, Practicing Engineers
How you can contribute to a great corporate culture (as a young engineer)
Values and Purpose - Building strong career foundations
Story Telling: The universal tool for understanding, engagement, and memorability
Whistleblowing on a $20.7m fraud. Then what?
Ethics - Recognising and Dealing with Unethical Situations
- YEA Tech Talk Series
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Concurrent Engineering - enabling multiple projects simultaneously
Net negative carbon new thinking through simulation design
Technology-enabled construction and the importance of infrastructure digital twins
Electrification, connectivity and AI: How can you be a part of today's megatrends?
Enhancing engagment with conversational artificial intelligence (AI)
Digital collaboration tool for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries
Digital twins for engineering: Theory and practice
Best Practices of Digital Workflow and Digital Twins in the Construction Industry
Design & data management in the digital engineering world
Practical approaches to the AI revolution for civil engineers
The digital engineering revolution has arrived
Automated to advanced BIM clash detections
Collaboration and data management in design and manufaturing
- YEA Collaboration Series
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Vehicle Development - what's important and how to influence it
Collaborating with Architects - leveraging the greatest value
Building engaged stakeholder networks on projects
Enhancing health and safety with 360 virtual reality (VR)
Finance for non-finance professionals
Networking and relationship building with colleagues and clients
YEA Video Snippet Series
These are short videos (5 to 10 minutes) available exclusively on EA OnDemand, and have been designed as additional learning opportunities that will complement the topics covered in the YEA CPD series.
- Finance Snippet Series
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Presented by Jeremy Khoh CA, Power of Zero Coaching
- Presentation Skills Snippet Series
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Presented by Chris Huet, Communications Coach and Director, Understood Consulting Services
- Increasing confidence when presenting
- Engaging the audience for increased understanding and memorability
- How to present with a strong, clear and authoritative voice
- How to use body language to reinforce your message
- Presenting online with clarity and engagement
- Using presentation slides to enhance understandability and audience interest
- Managing energy levels in the audience
- Managing question and answer sessions
- How to effectively include audience interaction in presentations
- Creating powerful endings and calls to action
- Communication
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Presented by Nigel Sutton, NDS Productions
Difficult conversations role play scenarios:
1. Your manager has unrealistic expectations of you. They want you to manage a project beyond your experience. They want the project delivered in an unrealistic time frame. You call a meeting with them to discuss.
2. Your manager has a casual attitude. Not well organised. Over talks in meetings with irrelevant information. The current project is falling behind. You need your manager to be better organised. You call a meeting with them to discuss

Deconstructing Influence
Date: Tuesday 7 February 2023
In part 1 of this YEA CPD Series webinar, you'll discover how influence is an ever-evolving skill set that requires nurturing and developing.
- The 3 C's that comprise the foundation of real influence in the 21st century
- Key trends that make or break the success of your influence, long-term
- What to expect both internally and externally on your journey to becoming a key person of influence

How to become influential
Date: Tuesday 7 March 2023
In part 2 of this YEA CPD Series webinar, you'll discover:
- Daily exercises to build (and rebuild!) your influencer skills in today's ever-changing environment
- The assessment criteria that determines how and when to influence for success
- Proven and practical strategies to find your voice and perform influence in your work and life.

Communication using a data visualisation lens
Date: Tuesday 14 March 2023
Join this webinar to learn all about:
- why using charts is far more effective when data storytelling
- some insights and basic rules when visualising data
- how to effectively present your insights to your audience.