(1) Engineering experience for the purpose of
application for licensure shall be classified as the following:
(a) Subprofessional experience is experience
gained before receipt of a baccalaureate degree. Such experience may be gained
during periods of college or university enrollment, and shall be credited at
one-half the time value of preprofessional experience gained after receipt of a
baccalaureate degree. No more than one year of subprofessional experience may
be counted as preprofessional experience. Such preprofessional experience may
include one or more of the following:
(i)
supervised engineering experience; or
(ii) supervised construction experience.
(b) Preprofessional
experience is experience gained following receipt of a baccalaureate degree.
Such preprofessional experience may include:
(i) no more than one year of subprofessional
experience as defined in (a);
(ii)
progressive experience on engineering projects which indicate the experience is
of increasing quality and required greater responsibility;
(iii) experience not obtained in violation of
the licensure act;
(iv) experience
gained under the supervision of a licensed professional engineer/land surveyor
or, if not, an explanation of why the experience should be considered
acceptable;
(v) credible teaching
experience at an advanced level, post graduate or senior graduate, in a college
or university offering an engineering curriculum of four years or more that is
approved by the board;
(vi)
experience gained in engineering research and design projects by members of an
engineering faculty, in an engineering curriculum approved by the
board;
(vii) a master's degree in
engineering will be credited as one year of experience;
(viii) a Ph.D. in engineering will be
credited as two years of experience, but the applicant shall not count an
additional one year for a master's degree, if earned. All degrees shall have
been obtained from colleges or universities with board-approved
programs.
(c)
Professional experience is gained after initial licensure by a state,
territory, or possession of the United States.
