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The EPC is divided into 17 chapters that align with NCARB's 17 IDP experience areas. Below is a step-by-step guide to how interns and architects can get credit for work done with the EPC.

Interns: Earn IDP Credit - Supplemental Experience for Core hours and Supplemental Experience for Elective hours

You can earn up to 1,800 IDP hours through the EPC. Each activity is worth eight hours.

Use the EPC 2012 to satisfy a portion of your IDP hour requirements. By successfully completing EPC activities, you can earn up to 40 core hours in each experience area.

Please note: Interns can earn a maximum of 600 core minimum hours through EPC with no more than 40 core hours earned in any one of the IDP experience areas. If an intern has already completed the maximum allowable of 40 core minimum hours in a given experience area through any combination of supplemental experience, than EPC activities completed in that area will be credited as elective hours. Learn more about applying EPC activities as IDP core hours.

You can also earn supplemental experience by successfully completing EPC 2012 Supplemental Experience for Elective activities (not claimed toward minimum required IDP training units). As always, your IDP Supervisor or Mentor must review, approve, and certify all of your completed EPC work.

Steps to submitting for IDP credit:

  1. Complete an EPC core or supplemental activity and note the Chapter and Title.
  2. Review your work with your IDP Supervisor or Mentor.
  3. Log in to "My NCARB" at www.ncarb.org.
  4. In the middle of your record window, click "Report Experience (online reporting system)."
  5. Under the "Home" or "Experience Reports" tab, click + NEW EXPERIENCE REPORT.
  6. Select "Supplemental Experience" via the radio button. A drop-down menu will appear.
  7. Select "Emerging Professional’s Companion (EPC)" from the drop down menu and click ADD.
  8. Provide your AIA member number (or temporary AIA number) and identify a mentor/supervisor and click CONTINUE. (The AIA provides interns in IDP a free temporary AIA number and AIA Transcript to track supplemental experience for IDP credit. Supplemental experience can also be gained through AIA Continuing Education courses.  Get a free AIA Transcripts/temporary AIA number at www.aia.org/FreeTranscriptsforInterns.)
  9. In the drop-down menus next to "Add a Course:" select the Chapter and the activity Title for the activity you have completed.
  10. Provide the date of completion and click ADD.
  11. Verify that your activity and corresponding hours appear in the "Courses" tab.
  12. Click SUBMIT FOR APPROVAL at the top of the window.

Your IDP Supervisor or Mentor will receive an email prompting him/her to certify your hours of EPC completion. Please remember to keep digital documentation of your completed core and supplemental activities for three years following completion.

If you completed exercises in the previous edition of the EPC (before May 1, 2012) and need to submit them, please e-mail idp@aia.org for instructions.

Supervisors and Mentors: AIA Continuing Education

The AIA encourages IDP Supervisors and IDP Mentors to self-report the time spent preparing for a meeting with an intern and/or the time spent meeting with the intern as a continuing education opportunity. The AIA suggests to report two learning units annually, but does not cap the amount of LU's you may self-report. The units should be self-reported under the Professional and Community Service category on the AIA Self-Report Form. Please note, the units are not HSW and are not recognized by all jurisdictions.

Steps to submitting for continuing education credit:

Architects: AIA Continuing Education

Architects can gain AIA Continuing Education credit for work done with the EPC. The credit can be used to count toward the AIA mandatory requirement and is accepted by most states for their licensee requirements.

Steps to submitting for continuing education credit: