424. Experience Requirements – Professional Engineers.
(a) The engineering branches and title authorities described in Section 404, herein, overlap and some activities are common to two or more engineering branches and title authorities. The minimum number of years of qualifying experience in such overlapping engineering branches and title authorities may be used in securing licensure in any applicable engineering branch or title authority but cannot be used more than once. The only exception to this is experience credit for education. Qualifying education entitles a candidate to experience credit and this experience credit may be used again even though it has already been used to qualify for another examination.
(b) An applicant for licensure as a professional engineer shall be granted credit towards the experience requirement, as stated in subdivision (a), for the following education curriculum:
(1) Four (4) years experience credit for graduation from an approved engineering curriculum.
(2) Two (2) years experience credit for graduation from a non-approved engineering curriculum or from an approved engineering technology curriculum.
(3) Five (5) years of experience credit for graduation from an approved cooperative work-study engineering curriculum.
(4) Five (5) years of experience credit for graduation from an approved post-graduate engineering curriculum.
(5) One-half (1/2) year of education credit for each year of study completed in an approved engineering curriculum that did not result in the awarding of a baccalaureate degree, except that the maximum of such experience shall be two (2) years.
“Life Experience Degrees” are not acceptable and will not be counted towards the education credit.
The additional actual work experience required to meet the six (6) years of experience requirement shall have been gained after graduation, except for cooperative work study experience and post-graduate education.
The sum of qualifying experience credit for education and engineering teaching experience shall not exceed five years.
(c) Qualifying experience is that experience satisfactory to the Board which has been gained while performing engineering tasks under the direction responsible charge of a person legally qualified to practice in an applicant’s’ branch of engineering.
(1) For the purposes of this section, “legally qualified” means having an appropriate license as a professional engineer,; or by being an employee of the Federal Government,; or, except for civil engineers, by virtue of being an employee of a manufacturing, mining, public utility, research and development, or other industrial corporation; or by, except for civil engineers, holding an appropriate license as a contractor.
(2) Qualifying experience shall be computed on an actual time worked basis, but not to exceed forty hours per week.