Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. Licensure is
granted as a professional engineer and shall be so stated on the certificate.
Although the Engineering and Surveying Practice Act makes no specific
designation as to the disciplines of engineering practice on the certificates
as issued by the board, the records and roster of the board shall indicate the
discipline(s) in which the licensee is competent to practice in accordance with
this section. Only the discipline(s) of engineering for which the applicant has
successfully been examined or approved by the professional engineering
committee will be recorded.
B.
Requests for engineering disciplines will be accepted from the following list;
and the board's records and roster will be annotated with the corresponding
alphabetical code:
(1) architectural
A
(2) aeronautical B
(3) civil C
(4) agricultural D
(5) electrical and computer E
(6) network engineer F
(7) geological/geotechnical G
(8) chemical H
(9) industrial I
(10) mechanical M
(11) mining/mineral N
(12) metallurgical/materials NN
(13) petroleum P
(14) control systems Q
(15) structural R
(16) nuclear T
(17) fire protection U
(18) environmental V
(19) construction W
(20) naval architecture and marine
Nm
(21) software Sw
C. Other disciplines may be
considered as reviewed and approved by the board.
D. A licensee may be listed in no more than
three disciplines of engineering. Subsequent to initial licensure, a licensee
may apply for licensure in another discipline of engineering. The licensee
shall demonstrate competence in that discipline and may be required to appear
before the board. Demonstration of competence may be accomplished by presenting
evidence as follows:
(1) the licensee shall
file a separate application for the additional discipline requested and pay an
application fee for the additional application; and
(2) complete the application forms to
indicate clearly the education, experience, and three acceptable personal
references which will substantiate proficiency in the discipline for which the
licensee is applying; experience and personal references must be
stated;
(3) an applicant for
licensure by endorsement may initially apply for up to three disciplines,
provided substantial evidence is presented to the board to demonstrate
competence for each requested discipline.
E. Structural discipline - except for an
applicant with a B.S. degree with a structural option and a minimum of four
years of post-baccalaureate structural engineering experience, listing as a
structural engineer may be obtained by having gained an acceptable engineering
degree which included a minimum of six hours of structural design; having
licensure as a professional engineer; and having four years of structural
experience gained after licensure and acceptable to the board.
(1) Passing the NCEES structural tests part I
& II may be substituted for two years of the required experience.
(2) A master's degree in structures may be
substituted for one year of the required experience.
(3) An applicant for licensure as a
structural engineer by endorsement shall meet the requirements of Paragraphs
(1) and (2) of Subsection D of 16.39.3.8 NMAC.
F. Specialty sub-disciplines - The
professional engineering committee of the board may determine that the special
practice of engineering within one or more of the engineering disciplines in
Subsection B of 16.39.3.8 NMAC requires unique training/education and
experience to adequately protect the public safety and health, and the
professional engineering committee of the board shall declare this special
practice of engineering to be a specialty sub-discipline. The declaration of a
specialty sub-discipline shall be based on a need identified by the state or
any of its political subdivisions, availability of appropriate and timely
training/education within the state of New Mexico, and the ability of the
identification of a specialty sub-discipline to inform the public of the needed
special practice of engineering. If the professional engineering committee of
the board declares a specialty sub-discipline, after a rules hearing, the
requirements for the special practice of engineering shall be included in Title
16, Chapter 39 of the New Mexico administrative code for engineering and
surveying:
(1) the specialty sub-discipline
rules shall specify the training/education and experience requirements to
obtain certification for the special engineering practice, including provisions
for equivalent training when a particular course of training/education is
specified; in anticipation that more than one discipline identified in
Subsection B of 16.39.3.8 NMAC will qualify for the specialty sub-discipline,
the rules shall identify which engineering disciplines in Subsection B of
16.39.3.8 NMAC, are most likely to qualify for the specialty
sub-discipline;
(2) the board shall
maintain a list of engineers who have been certified as meeting the
requirements for the specialty sub-discipline; the list shall be available to
the public upon request and pursuant to the inspection of public records; the
professional engineering committee of the board shall establish a form for the
application to obtain a certification for the specialty sub-discipline; upon
approval by the professional engineering committee of the board, the qualified
licensee's name shall be added to the list of licensees having the specialty
sub-discipline;
(3) a licensee's
name may be removed from the list of persons certified for the specialty
sub-discipline, upon determination by the professional engineering committee of
the board that the licensee no longer qualifies for the certification specialty
sub-discipline; such removal shall be only after the appropriate
process/hearing by the professional engineering committee of the
board;
(4) the failure to obtain
certification for the specialty sub-discipline shall not limit the practice of
engineering within any of the engineering disciplines identified in Subsection
B of 16.39.3.8 NMAC, and the failure to obtain certification in the specialty
sub-discipline shall not constitute practice outside the licensee's area of
competence; however, the failure to obtain certification for a specialty
sub-discipline and a determination by the professional engineering committee of
the board of inappropriate practice of engineering within the engineering
specialty may be cause for determination that the engineering practice is not
within the licensee's authorized discipline, and that appropriate disciplinary
action can be taken;
(5) the
certification of a specialty sub-discipline shall be for a period established
by the professional engineering committee of the board, but not less than two
years or more than six years; renewal of the specialty sub-discipline shall be
concurrent with license renewal;
(6) the professional engineering committee of
the board may remove the specialty sub-discipline from the rules for
engineering and surveying, after a rules hearing, upon the finding that the
training/education is no longer available or that the designation of the
specialty sub-discipline in no longer needed to protect the public safety and
health.
