Georgia professional engineers are required to complete 15 professional development hours (PDH) during each annual renewal period as part of the state’s Continuing Professional Competency requirements. Qualifying activities should have a clear purpose and objective and should maintain, improve, or expand the engineer’s skills and knowledge relevant to the licensee’s field of practice. Georgia allows PDH credit for continuing education courses, college courses, correspondence, televised, videotaped, audiotaped, and other short courses or tutorials, seminars, in-house courses, workshops, professional or technical presentations, teaching, published professional work, active participation in professional or technical societies, and patents when the activity is relevant to professional engineering practice. Georgia does not pre-approve courses for PDH credit, so licensees are responsible for selecting appropriate continuing education and maintaining documentation in case of audit. The Board retains final authority over whether a course, activity, PDH value, or method of earning credit is accepted. Licensees should keep records for four years, including a log showing the activity type, sponsoring organization, location, duration, instructor or speaker name, and PDH earned, along with certificates of completion or other attendance verification. Up to 7.5 PDH may be carried forward into the next annual renewal period when a professional engineer earns more than the required 15 PDH.