North Carolina PE Continuing Education Courses & Bundles

US-PE-ET-101 — Engineering Ethics Fundamentals for Professional Engineers

Covers public protection, competence, responsible charge, truthful communication, and conflicts of interest. Includes four practical video scenarios: The Compressed Review, The Familiar Client, Unfamiliar Scope, The Completed Drawing Set, and The Report Before Closing. Followed by a final quiz.

US-PE-ET-103 - Audio Podcast Ethics for Professional Engineers

Description

Designed specifically for busy engineers, this course delivers your required ethics training in a flexible, audio-first podcast format. Ideal for listening during your daily commute, a walk, or while traveling, this course breaks down the core ethical obligations every Professional Engineer owes to the public, clients, employers, and the engineering profession. Through realistic, cross-disciplinary scenarios, you will examine real-world trade-offs between public safety, project constraints, and professional duty.

What You'll Learn

• Core obligations under the PE Code of Ethics across multiple disciplines.

• How to navigate competing duties to public safety, clients, and employers.

• Practical strategies for identifying and managing ethical risk on active projects.

Combines six courses covering AI fundamentals, engineering ethics, prompting and documentation, cybersecurity and confidentiality, automation and licensure, and practical AI implementation. Learners examine engineering applications, hallucinations, verification, responsible charge, data protection, recordkeeping, tool selection, workflow design, professional accountability, and the use of platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. Includes applied scenarios, exercises, companion videos, and a final assessment for each course.

Bundle includes the following courses:

US-PE-AI-101 Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Practice

US-PE-AI-102 Engineering Ethics in the Age of AI US-PE-AI-103 Prompting, Documentation, and Recordkeeping for AI-Assisted Engineering Work

US-PE-AI-103 - Prompting, Documentation, and Recordkeeping for AI-Assisted Engineering Work

US-PE-AI-104 Cybersecurity and Confidentiality Risks of AI Tools in Engineering US-PE-AI-105 AI, Automation, and the Future of Engineering Licensure

US-PE-AI-105 - AI, Automation, and the Future of Engineering Licensure

US-PE-AI-106 Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Professional Engineering Practice

This course helps professional engineers understand how generative AI is changing engineering work and how they can adapt without surrendering professional judgment, technical accountability, or responsibility for public safety. Learners review practical workflows using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot for research, document analysis, technical communication, calculation support, project administration, quality control, and professional development.

The course is designed as a practical guide for evaluating, selecting, and applying AI tools in professional engineering workflows. It emphasizes appropriate use cases, productivity gains, effective prompting, verification of AI-assisted outputs, confidentiality protection, and continued professional accountability.

Will AI Replace Engineers? Understanding the Real Career Risk

Examine the realistic career implications of AI for professional engineers. It distinguishes between tasks, roles, and professions, emphasizing that AI is more likely to change routine production tasks than eliminate professional accountability. Learners assess where AI can accelerate work and where human judgment, field awareness, stakeholder communication, and responsible decision-making remain essential.

Choosing the Right AI Tool for the Engineering Task

Review tool selection as an engineering decision. Learners compare platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot based on task fit, source grounding, confidentiality controls, workflow integration, traceability, and cost. The module emphasizes matching the tool to the task, data classification, source requirements, and organizational controls rather than selecting a platform by brand preference.

Prompting and Workflow Design for Professional Engineers

Treat prompting as a form of lightweight technical specification writing. Learners review how to define objectives, context, constraints, sources, output format, uncertainty, and verification requirements. The module emphasizes source-bounded prompting, staged workflows, verification architecture, context management, revision control, and reusable prompt design for engineering tasks.

High-Value AI Applications Across Engineering Disciplines

Identify practical AI use cases across engineering disciplines, including research and requirements analysis, drafting and technical communication, calculation support, code review, technical automation, design-option development, trade studies, reports, specifications, quality control, and project administration. The module emphasizes that AI may improve speed and organization, but engineering conclusions still require discipline-specific competence, verification, and accountability.

Using AI Without Jeopardizing Your License, Employer, or Client

Focus on professional risk management when using AI. Topics include competence, responsible charge, confidentiality, privacy, security, intellectual property, source integrity, documentation, defensibility, organizational governance, incident response, correction, and adoption planning. The module reinforces that AI does not hold a license, owe a duty to the public, or accept disciplinary consequences; professional duties remain with the engineer.

Ten Key Points and Practical AI Use Checklist

The course closes with a practical review emphasizing that AI changes workflows but not professional accountability. Key points include choosing tools based on task and controls, using prompts as technical specifications, verifying AI-generated technical output, protecting confidential information, documenting material AI use, and retaining responsibility for competence, public protection, responsible charge, truthful communication, and final approval.

This course introduces professional engineers to practical uses of AI in engineering workflows while emphasizing professional judgment, verification, confidentiality, and accountability. Learners review how AI can support research, drafting, calculations, code review, design-option development, reports, specifications, quality control, and workflow efficiency.

The course also addresses AI limitations, including inaccurate outputs, hallucinated references, hidden assumptions, context errors, and overreliance. Engineers learn a practical framework for responsible AI use: define the task, control inputs, review outputs, verify technical content, document when appropriate, and retain responsibility for final engineering decisions.