Musselman, C. N., & Kumar, S., & Mattei, N. J., & Smith, L. (2016, June), Licensure Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession - and ASCE  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.25567

\bibitem{asee_peer_25567}
  Musselman, C. N., \& Kumar, S., \& Mattei, N. J., \& Smith, L. (2016, June), \emph{Licensure Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession - and ASCE}
  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  10.18260/p.25567

Craig N Musselman P.E., Sanjeev Kumar, Norma J. Mattei P.E., and L.Robert Smith.  "Licensure Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession - and ASCE".  2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2016.  https://peer.asee.org/25567 Internet.  26 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_25567}
  Craig N Musselman P.E., Sanjeev Kumar, Norma J. Mattei P.E., and L.Robert Smith.
  "Licensure Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession - and ASCE".
  \emph{2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2016.
  https://peer.asee.org/25567 Internet.  26 Apr, 2024

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Engineering licensure is critically important to civil engineers in that, unlike some other engineering disciplines, most practicing civil engineers are required to maintain a license as a professional engineer due to the unique aspect of their practice in the built environment and in dealing directly with the public.  This paper will describe four changes that are currently in process or being considered in engineering licensure in the US that will impact civil engineers in the future: discipline specific licensure; separate licensure requirements for structural engineers; master’s or equivalent as a requirement for licensure in the future and consideration of alternate pathways to licensure; and, efforts to expedite licensure comity among jurisdictions with respect to continuing professional development requirements.   Each of these four issues are briefly described below.    
Licensing engineers in a discipline specific fashion is an increasing trend.  Eleven jurisdictions have either title acts or practice acts that limit the engineer’s title or practice to the specific discipline in which he or she is licensed.  Numerous other jurisdictions have been transitioning to such provisions, without title or practice acts, through requiring that a board approved discipline be indicated on the PE stamp, or on the state’s on-line roster.  The paper will address these trends and how this affects the practice of civil engineering.
Structural engineers have been lobbying state PE boards and legislatures in recent years to license structural engineers separate from PE’s in order to further assure that engineers who design critical structures have passed the 16 hour NCEES structural engineering examination, and thus have demonstrated advanced knowledge of both vertical and horizontal forces in structural design.  This is controversial among state licensing boards most of which have a long-standing tradition of licensing engineers only as professional engineers. Recent consideration of a Model Law change by NCEES regarding licensure of structural engineers will be described.  
NCEES has had an aspirational future requirement in the Model Law, and now in a position statement, advocating that future qualifications for licensure will require an engineering master’s or equivalent.  This has been controversial within the engineering profession.  In response to this controversy, NCEES has begun consideration in the past several years of an alternate pathway to licensure that would entail a baccalaureate degree plus profession and industry based continuing professional development that is not necessarily equivalent to a master’s degree.  
More than forty licensure jurisdictions have adopted requirements for continuing professional development for renewal of a PE license.  This has created challenges for civil engineers who are licensed in multiple jurisdictions because the basic requirements, timing and application formats vary among jurisdictions.  The paper will describe changes in process intended to facilitate CPD comity.
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COORDINATING NOTE:
This abstract is submitted at the specific invitation and request of Tom Lenox, the coordinator of the ASCE Liaison Committee’s program for the CE Division of ASEE in 2016.  It should be considered for inclusion in the session “Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession – and ASCE” that Tom Lenox is organizing and moderating.

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