IMarEST Echo is the Institute’s professional development platform, providing members with online and offline access to a growing collection of learning and development content and training materials, tailored to their interests and stage of their career.

Echo provides members with access to their own continuing professional development (CPD) record, which they can maintain and update via the IMarEST Echo app and online. IMarEST Echo has been developed to support and encourage the professional development of IMarEST members, wherever they are, as they progress through their careers.

IMarEST Echo is available to all corporate members of the IMarEST (Associate Member, Member and Fellow grades). Access to IMarEST Echo is included in the annual membership subscription fees for corporate members.

Access to IMarEST Echo is included in the annual membership subscription fees for corporate members of the IMarEST (Associate Member, Member and Fellow grades).

Whether you are established in your profession or just starting out, IMarEST Echo can support your professional development throughout your career, helping you stay current and to advance in your role.

Through Echo you have online and offline access to a growing collection of learning and development content and training materials. You can also earn CPD for watching technical lectures recorded for IMarEST TV.

Undertaking CPD is a mandatory requirement for maintaining your professional registration (Chartered, Incorporated/Registered or Technician status). IMarEST Echo provides you with a central record of your CPD and learning activities, which you can update and maintain on the go, with IMarEST Echo app.

The IMarEST is required to undertake CPD monitoring of its registrants. This done at random, on a subset of members, and if you are selected for CPD monitoring, you are able to submit your evidence using Echo, either by uploading files or choosing entries from your CPD record.

No, as a professional development tool, access to Echo is only available to corporate membership grades (Associate Member, Member and Fellow), which are matched to your level of experience as working professional in marine engineering, science or technology. If you are an Affiliate Member, but working as a marine professional, please consider upgrading your membership to a relevant grade in order to gain access to Echo.

No, as a professional development tool specifically to support its members working in marine engineering, science or technology around the world, Echo is only available to its corporate membership grades (Associate Member, Member and Fellow). If you are working as a marine professional, please consider joining the Institute.

If you are an Associate Member, Member or Fellow, you can gain access but you must first create an IMarEST web account. Once you have done this, please contact requesting access to Echo. They will then notify you once your access has been enabled.

Yes. IMarEST Echo is available to all corporate members of the IMarEST (Associate Member, Member and Fellow grades) regardless of whether they are retired or not.

The “Help & Support” section within IMarEST Echo contains a series of guides to help you get started with Echo.

Please use the Echo Support group on Nexus, which can be used for assistance and feedback. Alternatively you can email .

CPD can be defined as the systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge, understanding and skill, and the development of personal qualities necessary for the execution of professional duties throughout the individual’s working life. Most people are undertaking professional development activity all the time and may not realise it.

Typical CPD activities include: attending in-house or external courses, work-based learning, distance learning programmes, self-directed private study, preparation and delivery of lectures and presentations, preparation of refereed papers, attendance at lectures, seminars or conferences, or watching IMarEST TV, acting as a mentor, relevant voluntary work, learning a new computer application or learning a foreign language. Really, any activity that you have found valuable in maintaining and enhancing your competence can be considered as contributing to your CPD.

pdf IMarEST Guide to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) (235 KB)

Anyone with, or on the road to, professional registration undertakes a commitment to engage in continuing professional development and you confirm this by agreeing to the IMarEST’s Code of Conduct, as a member of a professional institute. It is also mandatory (through Engineering Council and Science Council requirements) that you regularly record your CPD activities and personal reflections and that you can produce a sample of your records on request.

pdf IMarEST Guide to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) (235 KB)

Yes. IMarEST Echo can be used to keep a record of all your CPD activities. You can select the type of activity and enter details about it, attach files or upload images as evidence, and add your reflections before submitting to your CPD record. If you are randomly selected for CPD monitoring, you can then submit your evidence using Echo, either by uploading files or choosing entries from your CPD record.

Yes, Echo has been specifically developed to make CPD monitoring easy. If you are selected for CPD monitoring you can submit your evidence using Echo, either by uploading files or choosing entries from your CPD record.

Echo provides you with a growing library of relevant learning and development content. You will find full lecture recordings delivered through IMarEST TV which qualify for CPD, bite-sized training modules, magazines, journals and guides. Materials can be tailored to your needs or interests and can be downloaded for offline access on the IMarEST Echo app.

You will need an internet connection to access Echo using your web browser (echo.imarest.org) and to download and set up the IMarEST Echo app (Android and iOS).

Once you have logged into the app, you are able to download content to your device and then access this without an internet connection.

You will not have access to mycareerpath for much longer but it is up to you as to whether you wish to use Echo to record your CPD. Members are free to use an independent CPD recording tool or method if they prefer.

The growing need to better support and encourage the professional development of IMarEST members, not only with a central CPD record, but with targeted learning and development content, mobile apps, and offline access has led to the development of IMarEST Echo, which replaces mycareerpath from October 2017.

Access to mycareerpath will be maintained until the end of December 2018 and members who have previously used mycareerpath are encouraged to export their records and to upload these to Echo.

Yes. Members who have previously used mycareerpath are encouraged to export their records and to upload these to Echo.

This is a largely manual process, but a full step by step guide can be found in the "Help & Support" section in Echo.

Access to mycareerpath will be maintained until December 2018.

Eventually, yes. If you do not renew your membership you will lose access to your data on Echo when your membership is lapsed. When your membership is cancelled your Echo user account, and associated data, will be deleted.