State boards typically accept a CEU activity that meets the following criteria:
 
1. "A course or activity whose purpose and objective are clear with a content that will maintain, improve or expand the skills and knowledge of the licensee’s field of practice.”

2. "SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Must be relevant to the profession of engineering and may include technical, ethical or managerial content. Management courses must be sponsored by a recognized technical society."

SAVE International is a recognized technical society. SAVE International Inter-society Agreement Organizations include:

	AACE International - US
	American Institute of Architects (AIA) - US
	National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM) - US
	The Institute of Industrial Engineers

Correspondence, distance learning and internet courses are accepted by all the states that require engineering continuing education activities provided that the course meets the above guidelines and provided that completion of the course can be independently verified. The state boards consider completion of the course to be independently verified if you must take and pass a quiz to successfully complete the course, the quiz is graded and the results are kept on file by the course provider for a prescribed length of time (the number of years varies for each state).

In all U.S. states and Canadian provinces (as well as Australia) that mandate Continuing Professional Competency Activities to maintain licensure, it is the individual engineer's responsibility to ensure that activities meet the board's guidelines.

The first of the prerequisites that, SAVE certification programs require is basic VE training in, an approved MOD I Value Engineering Seminar (40 hours).
 

The Mod I training consists of the following two parts:

1. 
   Part I - The Value Engineering Theory - 20 (Contact) Hours (The Value Engineering Online Certification Course)

2. 
   Part II - The Value Engineering Workshop - 20 (Contact) Hours