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What reports are
required from Scheme "A" trainees
Graduate Training
Log Book
It is a mandatory requirement that Scheme "A"
registered trainees maintain throughout their training an ongoing record
of their Scheme "A" experiences, in their HKIE Engineering
Graduate Training Log Book. These regular and formal submissions play
an important part in the training as they are a permanent record of
what the trainee considers important and has learned during the training
related to events occurring, observations made and problems identified
(and solved).
Implicitly this personal record is a continuous measures
of the progress made by the trainee in achieving the training aims as
assessed by the Engineering Supervisor and Tutors. As such the trainee's
log entries and Staff comments will be a factor considered by the interviewers
at the Professional Assessment at any later application for Corporate
Membership.
It is the trainee's responsibility to follow the
instructions given in the "HKIE Engineering Graduate Training Log
Book" related to the style and frequency of submissions required;
that the entries are to be in long hand; and the staff comments are
to be included directly on the entries at the appropriate time (Tutors
monthly and Engineering Supervisors quarterly).
CPD Log Book
It is expected that trainees will take every CPD
opportunity to update their depth and breadth of knowledge as well as
to develop their personal qualities required to fulfill their future
role, as Professional Engineers, in industry and in society.
CPD therefore covers matters of direct technical
relevance as well as broader studies such as occupational safety &
health, environmental matters, marketing, legal aspects, financial management
and leadership skills. It is expected that the balance between 'direct
technical interest' and 'broad' subjects will be maintained by companies.
CPD activities are required to be entered in the
CPD Log Book and endorsed by the Engineering Supervisor. The CPD Log
Book will be checked by the HKIE to see that the CPD requirements (i.e.
minimum 45 CPD hours per year) have been met before a Scheme "A"
Training Certificate is issued.
Mandatory CPD subjects for the training period
to be as follows:
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Occupational Safety & Health,
minimum of 18 hours
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(ii)
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Environmental and related Technological
matters, minimum of 18 hours
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(iii)
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General and Professional matters,
minimum of 18 hours
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'In-house' CPD activities are encouraged. However
it is expected that approximately 50% of CPD days will be external
to the parent company.
Training
Record of Objectives
To make the assessment of trainee progress consistent
in matching the expected high standards expected by the HKIE, the Training
Programme is complemented by Training Objectives. It is considered that
this approach is both systematic and logical with the added advantage
that it provides trainees and training staff with an instant and clear
picture of what has been done and what needs to be done.
The 'Training-by-Objective' approach is based on
experienced Professional Engineers identifying, in the form of objectives,
what qualities, technical expertise, knowledge and skills are required
by a trainee to reach the required standard in a discipline.
There are 3 types of Objectives in a Scheme "A"
programme:-
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(a) |
Common Core Objectives
- these are the same for all HKIE Scheme "A" trainees. |
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(b) |
Core Objectives
- these are the same for all HKIE Scheme "A" trainees
in a particular discipline. |
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(c) |
Specific Objectives
- there are those objectives proposed by the company. |
Both the Common Core and Core Objectives are designed
to cover the points made in (a) to (c) below and in addition Specific
Objectives cover (d): -
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(a) |
They can be achieved
by all trainees in a particular discipline. |
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(b) |
They are capable
of being measured Objectively. |
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(c) |
Success in meeting
the requirement in an objective is independent of any time (served)
factor. |
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(d) |
They can be achieved
by all trainees of a certain discipline working in a particular
industry. |
At the assessment stages it is the responsibility
of the trainee to demonstrate to the Engineering Supervisor that the
Learning Objective have been met in the way prescribed in the 'Scheme
"A" Training Record of Objectives'. The way in which a trainee
must demonstrate the type of learning or skill expected for each Objective
is designated by a code letter defined in the 'Scheme "A"
Training Record of Objectives'.
The checking of a trainee's level of success in meeting
an Objective is the role of the Engineering Supervisor who is expected
to personally monitor trainee progress in this way on behalf of the
HKIE. It is expected that this assessment will involve regular 'face-to-face'
individual interview between trainees and their designated Engineering
Supervisor. To help ensure that this form of trainee assessment is not
unduly disruptive or arduous the maximum ratio of trainees to an
Internal Engineering Supervisor, is set at 12 to 1 and a total of
4 to 1 for an External Engineering Supervisor (whose approval
will be limited to 2 companies maximum).
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