How we can help you maintain your CPD

You can do much of your CPD through the Institution – safe in the knowledge that we’re here to help you continuously develop. 

From our range of leading training courses and programmes, right through to our bespoke online tools, we’ve designed everything to make it easy for you to keep up to date.

Career developer

Career developer is our online tool that helps you manage your professional development. You can use it to create goals, reports and action plans.

Log in to your Career developer


Volunteering opportunities

By volunteering you could contribute towards your CPD, boost your professional skills, experience and confidence as well as make a worthwhile contribution to your community and the engineering profession.

Find out about our volunteering opportunities


Learning and development

We run a wide range of training programmes and courses, covering everything from specific technical training to financial skills and leadership. We also run bespoke training programmes for businesses and have recently added non-destructive testing qualifications to our roster.

Browse our training courses


Events

We run a comprehensive programme of technical seminars, conferences, workshops and lectures to bring you the latest research and best practice from industry and academia. And you can catch up – or simply revisit – any lectures online.

View our events


Libraries and archive

Our white papers and industry reports provide an opportunity to develop your knowledge, status and professionalism in a wide variety of technical areas, across many mechanical engineering industry sectors. Our library is also one of the best mechanical engineering resources worldwide. Our core collection comprises key engineering texts, journals and IMechE Proceedings, plus an extensive archive.

Explore our libraries and archive

Need some help?

If you have a question about Continuing Professional Development, we'd like to hear from you.