Musselman, C. N., & Nelson, J. D., & Phillips, M. L. (2011, June), Engineering Licensure Laws and Rules, Today and Tomorrow  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--17879

\bibitem{asee_peer_17879}
  Musselman, C. N., \& Nelson, J. D., \& Phillips, M. L. (2011, June), \emph{Engineering Licensure Laws and Rules, Today and Tomorrow}
  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC.
  10.18260/1-2--17879

Craig N Musselman P.E., Jon D. Nelson, and Monte L. Phillips P.E..  "Engineering Licensure Laws and Rules, Today and Tomorrow".  2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2011.  https://peer.asee.org/17879 Internet.  18 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_17879}
  Craig N Musselman P.E., Jon D. Nelson, and Monte L. Phillips P.E..
  "Engineering Licensure Laws and Rules, Today and Tomorrow".
  \emph{2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2011.
  https://peer.asee.org/17879 Internet.  18 Jan, 2025

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AB  -             Engineering   Licensure Laws and Rules, Today and Tomorrow From a broad perspective, the qualifications for licensure as a professional engineer are based onwhat is often termed a “three legged stool” of education, examination, and experience.The specific qualifications required for licensure as a professional engineer in the United Statesare set by each jurisdiction through the state’s engineering statute, and rules established by thestate board of licensure of professional engineers implementing those statutory requirements.The law and the rules differ in each state.The National Council for the Examination of Engineers and Surveyors (NCEES) maintains aModel Law and Model Rules to be used by states when they update their individual law andrules. The NCEES Model Law and Rules were changed in 2006 to require additionalengineering education after 2020 as a prerequisite for licensure as a professional engineer. Theserequirements become applicable if and when individual states adopt the Model Law 2020requirements.Current qualifications required for licensure vary from state to state. All jurisdictions willprovide a license to a “Model Law Engineer” who, under the current Model Law, possesses abaccalaureate degree in engineering from a program accredited by EAC ABET, who has fouryears or more of acceptable and progressive engineering experience, and who has passed boththe Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination and the Principles and Practices ofEngineering (PE) examination, and who has no record of violation of ethical standards. Moststates have various additional pathways to engineering licensure for those with alternativeeducation backgrounds, often accompanied by additional years of engineering experience. Thispaper will identify the current requirements on a state by state basis.The Model Law 2020 engineering education requirements specify: 1) a master’s degree from amaster’s program accredited by EAC ABET, or a baccalaureate degree from a programaccredited by EAC ABET plus either: 1) a master’s degree in engineering from an institutionwhich offers EAC ABET programs, or; 2) 30 additional semester credits of upper levelundergraduate or graduate level coursework in engineering, math, science and professionalpractice topic areas. NCEES is currently considering additional pathways to licensure for theModel Law 2020 provisions. This paper will describe the Model Law 2020 requirementscurrently in place, and the alternatives currently being considered.Engineering licensure requirements are subject to “industrial exemptions” which are present inthe statutes in some but not all states. Engineering licensure is not required by law in some, butnot all, states for those who practice engineering for electrical or telecommunications utilities, orfor manufacturing businesses which manufacture a product. In response to recent oil spills andmining disasters, both NSPE and NCEES have committees evaluating whether these industrialexemptions provide adequate protection of the public health, safety and welfare. This paper willdelineate those states which have and do not have such industrial exemptions, and provideinformation on the specific language of these exemptions in each state.PURPOSE.The purpose of this paper is to provide engineering educators with a single-source, yet concise,document that describes the engineering licensure process in the United States. This will includedescriptions of –   1. The current NCEES Model Law & Rules.   2. The NCEES Model Law & Rules beginning not earlier than 2020.   3. The great variety of actual engineering licensure qualifications within the 56 different      licensure jurisdictions.   4. The complexities of licensure “comity” and how this is has been addressed at the      national level.   5. The industrial exemption “issue.”COORDINATING NOTE:This abstract is submitted at the specific invitation and request of Tom Lenox, the coordinator ofthe ASCE Liaison Committee’s program for the CE Division of ASEE in 2011. It should beconsidered for inclusion in the session(s) that Tom Lenox is organizing and moderating
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