21-56.0502. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: INDIVIDUAL

(a) General. A person desiring to become licensed as a Professional Engineer must make application to the Board on a form prescribed and furnished by the Board.

(b) Request. A request for an appropriate application form may be made at the Board address.

(c) Applicable Forms:

(1) Student Form. This form requires the applicant to set forth personal history, educational background, provide character references, and furnish a photograph for identification purposes. The form is for use by those graduating, or those having graduated, from an engineering curriculum approved by the Board as follows:

(A) Students graduating in the same semester or quarter in which the fundamentals of engineering examination is administered.

(B) Graduates with less than two years since graduation.

(2) Professional Engineer Form:

(A) All persons, including comity applicants and graduates of an engineering curriculum approved by the Board with more than two years progressive engineering experience, shall apply for registration by using the Professional Engineer form. The submission of this form shall signify that the applicant seeks registration, and will result in seating for each examination required, when the applicant is so qualified. This form requires the applicant to set forth personal and educational background, engineering experience and character references. A passport-type photograph for identification purposes is required.

(B) Persons who have previously completed the fundamentals examination by use of the Student Form shall submit the Professional Engineer Form to request registration when qualified to take the final eight-hour examination.

(3) Supplemental Form. Persons who initially applied for the fundamentals of engineering exam using the Professional Engineer form must supplement the initial application upon applying for the principles and practice examination. The supplemental form requires that engineering experience from the date of the initial application until the date of the supplemental application be listed. Five references shall be submitted which are current to within one year of the examination date.

(4) Reference Forms:

(A) Persons applying to take the examination for fundamentals of engineering must submit to the Board names of three individuals who are familiar with the applicant's work, character and reputation. One of these individuals must be licensed as a Professional Engineer. Persons applying to take the examination for principles and practices of engineering must submit to the Board names of five individuals who are familiar with the applicant's work, character and reputation. Two of these individuals must be Professional Engineers.

(B) In addition to the applicant submitting names to the Board of individuals familiar with the applicant's work, character and reputation, those individuals listed are required to submit to the Board their evaluations of the applicant on forms supplied them by the applicant. Such information is considered confidential and shall not be released by the Board.

(C) The reference form requires the individual evaluating the applicant to state the evaluating individual's profession, knowledge of the applicant and other information concerning the applicant's engineering experience, character and reputation.

(D) The reference forms shall be received by the applicant with the application. The reference forms are then to be distributed by the applicant to the persons listed on the application as references. It is the applicant's responsibility to see that the individuals listed as references return the reference forms to the Board prior to the filing deadline for the examination.

(d) Fees:

(1) Student Form. The examination fee for applicants applying for examination on the fundamentals of engineering using the student form is payable with the filing of the application. Once the applicant passes the examination on the fundamentals of engineering, the registration fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) and the examination fee for the principles and practice of engineering examination are payable with the applicant's subsequent application for registration as a Professional Engineer using the Professional Engineer form.

(2) Professional Engineer Form. The registration fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) and appropriate examination fee for applicants applying for the examination on the fundamentals of engineering or the principles and practice of engineering using the Professional Engineer form are payable with the filing of the application.

(3) Comity. The registration fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for applicants for comity registration is payable with the filing of the application.

(4) Examination. The examination fee for any applicant is payable with the filing of the application in the amount of the actual cost of the examination plus an administrative fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00).

(e) The Board shall accept the records maintained by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) as evidence of registration in another state.