PEPT study plan

Define each core ethical principle (integrity, objectivity, competence, confidentiality, public safety primacy) in your own words and match it to a concrete engineering scenario you have personally encountered or can imagine in your sector.

Map the structure of your jurisdiction's engineering licensing act: identify the regulator, the reserved title or practice restrictions, the mandatory reporting duties, and the disciplinary process, citing section numbers from the actual statute or regulation.

Build a personal decision procedure for an ethical conflict that names the stakeholders, the competing obligations, and the escalation path (supervisor, regulator, employer legal counsel) in the correct order.

Distinguish a conflict of interest from a perceived conflict and write two short worked examples showing the disclosure step that resolves each.

Analyze at least three published disciplinary case summaries from your regulator and extract the specific conduct that triggered sanction, the rule breached, and the penalty imposed.

Compare the professional code of conduct against the statutory duties in your licensing act and note where the code is stricter than the law and where the law adds obligations the code omits.

Explain the limits of professional confidentiality: identify the situations (imminent public danger, court order, regulator inquiry) that override it and the correct disclosure sequence for each.

Draft the wording you would use to decline or report an instruction that would breach the code, keeping it factual and non-accusatory.

Classify the main liability exposures of an engineer (negligence, breach of contract, statutory liability, vicarious liability for supervisees) and state the standard of care applied to each.

Explain how professional indemnity insurance responds to a claim: what triggers notification, what is typically excluded (uninsured work, known claims, contractual penalties), and why the duty to notify promptly matters.

Compute present value, future value, and net present value for a simple project cash flow using a stated discount rate, and interpret whether the project clears the hurdle.

Compare payback period, NPV, and internal rate of return on the same project and explain which method can mislead when project scale or duration differs.

Construct a critical path network for a 15-activity project, identify the critical path, and calculate total float for at least three non-critical activities.

Distinguish earned value metrics (PV, EV, AC, SPI, CPI) and calculate each from a simple progress dataset, explaining what a CPI below 1.0 signals.

Prepare a project cost baseline that separates contingency from management reserve and justify the split in one sentence each.

Identify the top three schedule risks on your network and assign a mitigation action and an owner to each.

Apply the hierarchy of controls to three hazards from your own sector, ranking the controls from elimination to PPE and stating why lower-order controls are less reliable.

Outline the steps of a risk assessment (hazard identification, likelihood, consequence, risk rating, control, review) and complete one for a realistic task.

Explain the purpose and structure of an environmental management system to ISO 14001 and a quality management system to ISO 9001, noting the shared Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle.

Describe how a nonconformity is raised, dispositioned, and closed under a quality system, and distinguish corrective action from preventive action.

State the statutory reporting duties for a serious incident or environmental release in your jurisdiction and the timeline for each.

Identify the standard contract forms used in your sector and explain how risk allocation differs between them on delay, unforeseen conditions, and indemnity.

Draft a clear, factual site instruction or variation record that preserves the contractual position without editorializing, and explain why contemporaneous records matter in a dispute.

Explain the difference between a notice requirement and a claim submission, and state the consequence of missing a contractual notice deadline.

Assess the sustainability impacts of a design decision across the project lifecycle (embodied carbon, operational energy, end-of-life) and name the trade-off you would flag to the client.

Explain how stakeholder consultation and environmental impact assessment feed into project approval and where engineers' duties to the public sit in that process.

Describe the stages of team development and identify two concrete leadership actions that move a team from storming to norming.

Explain how you would give constructive feedback on a technical error to a junior engineer using a specific, behavioral, non-personal format.

Outline a personal continuing professional development plan mapping your current competence gaps to learning activities and evidence.

Evaluate one emerging technology relevant to your sector (for example digital twins, AI-assisted design review, or modular construction) against its maturity, adoption barriers, and the professional competence it demands of you.

State the ethical questions raised when an emerging tool produces an output you cannot independently verify, and how you would discharge your duty of care.

Complete a full timed mock examination under exam conditions and record your score per domain to identify remaining weak areas.

Revisit every domain where your mock score fell below 60 percent and write a corrected summary of the underlying principle for each.

Rehearse the ethical decision procedure and the hierarchy of controls aloud until you can state each from memory without notes.

Review your week 1 to 7 deliverables and consolidate the reference sheets into a single indexed revision pack you can scan in the final days.