Professional Land Surveyor

4 CSR 30-5.110 Land Surveyor Standards for Admission to Examination

1. Before being admitted to the examination, an applicant for registration as a land surveyor who is not enrolled in the land surveyor-in-training program shall have the knowledge, skills and experience as, in the discretion of the board, would indicate that the applicant is qualified to be placed in responsible charge of land surveying work. The minimum length of experience required of the applicant, based on education, shall generally be as listed in sections (2)--(5).
   
   
2. (2) Years and Kind of Education and Minimum Land Surveying Work Experience.
   
   
   1. Engineering graduate, accredited--two (2) years, one (1) year responsible charge of field crew and one (1) year office work directly related to land surveying.
   2. Engineering or science (college level) year-for-year (minimum four (4).
   3. Nonengineering or science graduate (college level)-individual evaluation.
   4. Courses taken (not full-time student)-individual evaluation
   5. High school graduate-eight (8) years combined work experience and education.

   
   

3. Individual evaluation may result in less than full credit.
   
   

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4. In evaluating the minimum land surveying work experience required of all applicants, credit will be given for work under the responsible charge of a registered land surveyor for work directly related to land surveying. Full credit will not be given for engineering or construction surveying work experience. The professional engineering division shall grant maximum credit as follows:
   
   
   1. Survey crew member (rodman, chainman, instrument man)-maximum two (2) years;
   2. Party chief-year-for-year; and
   3. Office work (record research, drafting, calculations, preparing legal descriptions)- year-for-year

   
   
   

5. Applicant must have a minimum of three (3) years' field work and one (1) year of office work. Individual evaluations may result in less than full credit. AUTHORITY: section 327.041, RSMo (1986). Original rule filed March 16, 1970, effective April 16, 1970. Amended: Filed Dec. 8, 1981, effective March 11, 1982. Amended: Filed Jan. 12, 1984, effective April 12, 1984. Amended: Filed July 20, 1987, effective Oct. 25, 1987.
   
   

Professional Engineer

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4 CSR 30-5.080 Engineer Standards for Admission and Examinations

1. Before being admitted to the examination, an applicant for registration as a professional engineer shall have the knowledge, skills and experience as the board deems necessary to qualify the applicant for being placed in responsible charge of engineering work. The minimum length of experience required of the applicant, based on education, is three (3) years for any applicant holding a master's degree or a doctorate degree in engineering; however, an applicant will not be admitted to examination sooner than four (4) years after the applicant has satisfied the educational requirements of sections 327.221 and 327.241, RSMo, provided, however, any applicant who shall have been conferred a master's degree or doctorate degree in engineering concurrently while acquiring three (3) years of satisfactory engineering experience, as provided in this rule, shall be admitted to the examination. The Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD) has been succeeded by the Accreditation Board for Engin eering and Technology, Inc. (ABET). For purposes of evaluating engineering curricula at the baccalaureate level, the programs accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET shall be the basis used for evaluation of programs not accredited by EAC of ABET.
   
   
2. The board reserves the right to revoke this approval at any time and to prepare and administer the examination as it deems proper.
   
   
3. When an engineering curriculum has not been accredited by ECPD, ABET, or its successor organizations, the professional engineering division shall evaluate the educational program of the applicant in order to determine whether or not, in its opinion, the educational program is equal to or exceeds the programs accredited by ECPD, ABET, or their successor organizations. The professional engineering division shall select one (1) registered engineer experienced in evaluating academic credentials to assist in making this determination. The evaluator, by evaluation of transcripts and an official publication describing the engineering degree program of the institution, personal interview, by examination, or both in any other manner deemed suitable, shall make an evaluation as to whether the academic program completed by the applicant meets the minimum educational requirements established by section 327.221, RSMo. The evaluator shall recommend to the professional engineering division and report how any d eficiencies can be corrected, listing prescribed educational areas to bring the applicant's academic qualifications up to the required minimum. The report of the evaluator shall not be binding upon the division.
   
   

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4. Any applicant deemed by the professional engineering division under section (3) of this rule to have completed an educational program which is equal to or exceeds those programs accredited by ECPD, ABET, or their successor organizations shall be required to have obtained the minimum engineering work experience as is required in section (1) of this rule. In all cases, the board will consider only that experience the applicant has obtained after satisfying the educational requirements of sections 327.221 and 327.241, RSMo.
   
   
5. In evaluating the minimum engineering work experience required of all applicants, the professional engineering division shall grant maximum credit as follows:
   
   
   1. Engineering teaching at collegiate level (only advanced engineering subjects or courses related to advanced engineering at board-approved schools), assistant professor and higher--year-for-year;
   2. Graduate education, master's degree or PhD degree--one (1) year for completion of either;
   3. Military service (commissioned only--normally this service is in a technical branch such as engineering, ordinance, civil work services (CWS), civil engineering corps (CEC), etc.): Generally year-for-year subject to evaluation;
   4. Construction (technical decision-making level), above average complexity, nonstandard design, or both involving field modification--year-for-year;
   5. Project planning including layout and twenty-five percent (25%) or more design--year-for-year;
   6. Research and development at the planning and decision-making level--year-for-year; and
   7. Engineering management and administration--year-for-year.

   
   
   

6. Individual evaluation may result in less than full credit.
   
   
7. In accordance with the authority conferred upon the board at section 327.241.6., RSMo, the board provides that any person, upon satisfactory showing of an urgent need, such as absence from the United States, economic hardship or professional necessity, and who has graduated from and holds an engineering degree from an accredited school of engineering, and has acquired at least three and one-half (3 1/2) years of satisfactory experience, and previously has been classified an engineer-in-training by having successfully passed the first part of the examination, shall be eligible to take the second part of the examination and, upon passing, shall be entitled to receive a certificate of registration to practice as a professional engineer subject, however, to other provisions of Chapter 327, RSMo, including having acquired four (4) years of satisfactory experience.
   
   

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