CPEE offers an extensive range of short courses each year, involving a team of presenters from different areas of the roads and pavements sector. The events are largely structured around the learning's offered in CPEE Post Graduate studies along with content closely linked to the relevant Austroads Guides and/or Australian Standards. To ensure delivery of practical and relevant material and experience, only recognised experts are engaged as presenters.

CPEE's unique and targeted distance education approach is well regarded by the whole of the roads and pavements industry, including state and local governments. Theses practical courses encourage the direct application of the skills and knowledge acquired into the workplace and is further facilitated by the distance education format. The programs aim at providing students with the knowledge and skills to fill senior positions in these specialist fields within state & local government, public works authorities and with engineering and infrastructure planning consultants

Specialist knowledge requires ongoing professional development to keep up with the latest trends and developments in the sector. CPEE's suite of Short Courses and online award programs offer the ability to increase the capabilities of staff and maintain up-to-date technical skills as they progress throught their engineering career.