As for the why part of your question….I dunno! It costs a significant amount of money to buy CE materials or to attend seminars which in turn give us CE units. I guess the santioning body thinks it makes us more “professional” or “educated”. I disagree. I have rarely learned anything through CE requirements that make me a better technologist. It is more of a big inconvience in my eyes. It costs me money, and in the case of seminars, it takes time out of my weekend, when I would rather be relaxing or playing!

Did you get your source from the ASRT or ARRT website? If not, here are the sites….

http://www.arrt.org/education/cereq.pdf

http://www.asrt.org/Content/ContinuingEducation/_continuingeducation.aspx

You can read about their rational for CEUs! See what you think…..