As used in this chapter:

1. (a) "Board" means the state board of registration for professional engineers.
2. (b) "Professional engineer" means an individual who, by reason of that individual's special knowledge of the mathematical and physical sciences and the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design which are acquired by education and practical experience, is qualified to engage in the practice of engineering as attested by that individual's registration as a professional engineer.

3. (c) "Engineering intern" means an individual who:

   1. (1) is a graduate from an approved engineering curriculum of four
   2. (4) years or more or who has acquired, through engineering education and experience in engineering work, knowledge and skill approximating that obtained by graduation in an approved engineering curriculum of four (4) years or more;
   3. (2) has successfully passed an examination as prescribed in section 14 of this chapter; and
   4. (3) has been issued by the board an appropriate certificate of enrollment as an engineering intern.

4. (d) "Practice of engineering" means any service or creative work that the adequate performance of requires engineering education, training, and experience in the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences to services or creative work that includes the following:

   1. (1) Consultation.
   2. (2) Investigation.
   3. (3) Evaluation.
   4. (4) Planning, including planning the use of land and water.
   5. (5) The design of or the supervision of the design of engineering works and systems.
   6. (6) Engineering surveys and studies or the supervision of engineering surveys and studies, including all surveying activities required to support the sound conception, planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of engineered projects, but not including the surveying of real property for the establishment of land boundaries, subdivisions, rights-of-way, easements, and the dependent or independent surveys or resurveys of the public land survey system.

   7. (7) Evaluation of construction for the purpose of assuring compliance with specifications, plans, and designs, in connection with any public or private utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, processes, work systems, or projects.

      The term "practice of engineering" does not include the work ordinarily performed by persons who operate or maintain machinery or equipment.

5. (e) "Approved engineering curriculum" means an engineering curriculum of four (4) years or more that has been approved by the board. In approving the engineering curriculum, the board may take into consideration the standards of accreditation adopted by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
6. (f) "Practice or offer to practice engineering" means the act of an individual or a business who by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card, telephone listing, or in any other way represents the individual or the business to be a professional engineer or who performs, or offers to perform, any acts or work involving the practice of engineering.

7. (g) "Licensing agency" means the Indiana professional licensing agency established by IC 25-1-5-3 .

   Formerly: Acts 1935, c.148, s.2; Acts 1947, c.262, s.2; Acts 1957, c.320, s.1; Acts 1961, c.277, s.1; Acts 1965, c.284, s.2; Acts 1969, c.279, s.1. As amended by Acts 1981, P.L.222, SEC.229; P.L.132-1984, SEC.40; P.L.23-1991, SEC.14; P.L.215-1993, SEC.2; P.L.1-2006, SEC.475; P.L.78-2017, SEC.18.