Florida Board of Professional Engineers (FBPE) - Build Your Own Package

Since 2003, PacePDH.com has delivered over 1.5 million online continuing education hours to more than 60,000 AEC professionals nationwide. Our online interactive audio/visual courses feature narration, images and illustrations. Our PDF format is a non-timed, read-only course with online testing at the end.

Florida Professional Engineer Continuing Education Requirements

Florida Continuing Education Requirements

1. All Professional Engineers licensed in Florida are required to obtain a total of 18 continuing education (CE) course hours every two years in order to renew their licenses.
   
2. Pursuant to Rule 61G15-22.001(3), Florida Administrative Code, PEs must complete a course on the eighth edition which goes into effect Dec. 31, 2023, and provide the Board with a certificate of completion. Certificates can be emailed to FBPE at cedesk@fbpe.org.
   
   However, PEs whose work involves the design of elements of structures and systems covered by the Florida Building Code must take an advanced building code course before submitting final engineering documents to building departments or other agencies having jurisdiction.
   
   For more information, visit the FBPE Executive Director's message on the FBPE.org Web site.
3. Of the 18 hours, one hour must relate to the Florida laws and rules of Professional Engineers and one hour must relate to Florida professional ethics, both from a Board-approved provider. Four hours must relate to area of practice. The remaining 12 hours may be related to any topic pertinent to the practice of engineering.

Requirements for New Licensees

If you received your first Florida PE license between March 1, 2023, and Feb. 28, 2025, and are renewing your license for the first time, you are only required to complete the 1-hour Florida Laws and Rules course (PDF) and the 1-hour Ethics course (A/V based).

 
IMPORTANT NOTE: The reporting rules for Florida Engineers have changed

In the past, FL Engineers and CE Providers (such as PacePDH.com), were not required to submit course completions or certificates to the FBPE. Once engineers had completed the required CE hours, they would simply attest to having completed their continuing education by checking a box as part of the renewal application process.

The Florida Board of Professional Engineers would then randomly audit PEs to confirm completion of their continuing education requirements. However, after two renewal periods during which too many PEs were failing the audit, Florida statutes now require that PEs must report their certificates.

As the Florida Laws and Rules course can only be offered by Board-approved providers like PacePDH.com, we will report your completed Laws and Rules course to the FBPE.

Florida engineers now are required to provide ALL continuing-education documentation, including the Laws and Rules course, via the NCEES CPC Tracking system. In other words, Florida PE’s must now self-report all 18 hours of CE courses themselves using the NCEES CPC Tracking system.

To help you with this new reporting requirement Pace has done several things:

1. We've created a 5 Minute Demo of the NCEES Reporting System.
2. We've provided instructions and all course details you need to enter into the NCEES system in one convenient place. You can access this information by clicking on the "Course Information for NCEES (Engineer) Reporting" icon at the bottom of the Print Certificate page for each completed course.
3. Link to the NCEES CPC Tracking System

For more information, visit the Florida Board of Professional Engineers Continuing Education Requirements Website.

PacePDH.com is approved by the Florida Board of Professional Engineers (Provider #0003356) to provide online continuing education courses to Engineers.