PURPOSE: This rule sets out standards for admission to engineering examinations.

1. (1) Before being admitted to the examination, an applicant for licensure 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 in engineering; however, an applicant will not be admitted to the 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 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 Engineering 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. (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. (3) Foreign-educated applicants holding an engineering degree not accredited by ECPD, ABET, or its successor organizations will be required to submit a favorable evaluation report completed by the Engineering Credentials Evaluation International (ECEI) or by another evaluation service acceptable by the professional engineering division of the board certifying equivalency to an ABET accredited degree. Applicants holding a United States of America (U.S.A.) engineering degree not accredited by ECPD, ABET, or its successor organizations will be required to have their educational degree program evaluated in order to determine whether or not it is equal to or exceeds the programs accredited by ECPD, ABET, or their successor organizations. The evaluation must be completed by an engineer(s) experienced in evaluating academic credentials selected by the professional engineering division or by an evaluation service acceptable by the professional engineering division of the board. 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 deficiencies 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.
4. (4) A degree in engineering technology does not meet the educational requirements of section 327.221, RSMo.
5. (5) 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.

6. (6) In evaluating the minimum engineering work experience required of all applicants, the professional engineering division shall grant maximum credit as follows

   1. (A) Engineering teaching at collegiate level (only advanced engineering subjects or courses related to advanced engineering at boardapproved schools), assistant professor and higher—year-for-year;
   2. (B) Master’s degree in engineering—one

7. (1) year for completion;

   1. (C) 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;
   2. (D) Construction (technical decision-making level), above average complexity, nonstandard design, or both involving field modification—year-for-year;
   3. (E) Project planning including layout and twenty-five percent (25%) or more design— year-for-year;
   4. (F) Research and development at the planning and decision-making level—year-foryear; and
   5. (G) Engineering management and administration—year-for-year.
8. (7) Individual evaluation may result in less than full credit.
9. (8) 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 or engineerintern 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 licensure to practice as a professional engineer subject, however, to other provisions of Chapter 327, RSMo, including having acquired four (4) years of satisfactory experience.

AUTHORITY: sections 327.041, RSMo Supp. 2004 and 327.221 and 327.241, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 30-5.080. Original rule filed March 16, 1970, effective April 16, 1970. Amended: Filed Sept. 13, 1977, effective March 11, 1978. Amended: Filed Dec. 8, 1981, effective March 11, 1982. Amended: Filed Sept. 13, 1983, effective Dec. 11, 1983. Amended: Filed Nov. 9, 1984, effective Feb. 11, 1985. Amended: Filed Sept. 12, 1985, effective Dec. 12, 1985. Amended: Filed Aug. 31, 1987, effective Nov. 23, 1987. Amended: Filed Feb. 15, 1989, effective May 11, 1989. Amended: Filed Oct. 3, 1995, effective April 30, 1996. Amended: Filed May 13, 2005, effective Nov. 30, 2005. Moved to 20 CSR 2030-5.080, effective Aug. 28, 2006. **Original authority: 327.041, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001; 327.221, RSMo 1969, amended 1981, 1983, 1999; and 327.241, RSMo 1969, amended 1977, 1981, 1983, 1999.