Wyo. Code R. 037-0001-4
Engineers & Land Surveyors, Professional Licensing
Chapter 4: Registration
Effective Date: 10/22/2003 to 07/29/2010
Rule Type: Superceded Rules & Regulations
Reference Number: 037.0001.4.10222003
Section 1. Application Requirements for Engineers and Land Surveyors.
(a) All individuals seeking registration as a professional engineer must possess four (4) years of experience after obtaining a bachelor's degree in an ABET/EAC accredited curriculum or equivalent, prior to seeking registration. Applicants seeking registration as a professional engineer, or professional land surveyor shall complete the application form. If the application does not contain space for the information to be submitted, the applicant may securely attach additional sheets to the form. In addition, all applicants shall:
(i) Arrange to have certified transcripts sent directly from the registrar of the college, university, or educational institution to the Board;
(ii) Provide the names and addresses of immediate supervisors from past and present employment.
(iii) Supply the names and addresses of supervisors who are registered professionals, for at least three (3) engagements, to serve as references. If the applicant cannot supply such information, he/she must provide to the Board a written, sworn statement explaining why. The applicant shall then provide the names and addresses of three (3) references, unrelated to the applicant, at least two (2) of whom shall be registered in the profession in which registration is sought, all references shall have personal knowledge of the applicant's experience. The Board may require additional references.
(iv) Execute a release authorizing the Board to investigate the applicant's education, experience credentials, and moral character and repute.
(v) Complete and submit evidence of lawful presence.
(vi) If an applicant makes no attempt to complete his/her application within six (6) months from the date of seeking registration, his/her application will be canceled with neither prejudice nor refund of fee.
(b) The applicant shall mail experience verification forms to immediate supervisors from past and present employment or as provided in Section 1(a)(iii) of this chapter. The applicant shall mail any required additional reference forms. The applicant shall have the experience verification forms and reference forms sent directly to the Board Office. Upon receipt of all completed required forms, the application will be evaluated.
(c) If the application is complete and in the proper form, the Board is satisfied that all statements on the application are true, the applicant is eligible in all other respects to be registered in the branch of engineering or land surveying for which the applicant has applied, then the Board shall certify the applicant as eligible to take the examination, or, if exempt from examination pursuant to The Act, is eligible for registration. If for any reason the Board is not satisfied that all of the statements on the application are true or that the applicant is not eligible in all respects for examination or registration, it may cause a further investigation to be made of the applicant. If, in the judgment of the Board, the applicant has not furnished satisfactory evidence of qualifications for examination or registration as required by these rules, it may deny the application or it may require additional information concerning the applicant's education, experience or both. The Board shall require an applicant for professional registration to have passed both the fundamentals and professional examination, unless exempt pursuant to The Act. The Board may also require an applicant to submit to an additional oral or written examination if the applicant has not furnished satisfactory evidence of qualifications for registration.
(d) No credit will be given for engineering work experience gained during pursuit of an undergraduate education, nor will credit be given for both land surveying and engineering for the same period of time.
(a) In-training applicants shall complete the appropriate application for examination.
(b) If otherwise qualified, applicants for engineer-in-training and land surveyor-in-training programs will be permitted to take the fundamentals examination within the final year of an appropriate, accredited baccalaureate degree program. The applicant shall have his application form endorsed by the applicant's college dean.
(c) Applicants for in-training programs who have not taken the examination pursuant to Subparagraph (b) above will be permitted to take the in-training examination after submitting to the Board specific evidence of the required amounts of education and/or experience, as set forth in Section 7(c) or Section 9(c) of this chapter.
(d) Applicants for in-training registration must verify all educational experience by having certified transcripts sent directly from the registrar to the Board before in-training registration will be granted.
(a) Examinations shall be given according to the following schedule:
(i) Fundamentals of Engineering, Fundamentals of Land Surveying - April and October;
(ii) Professional Land Surveyor - April and October;
(iii) Professional Engineers:
(A) Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Computer, Environmental, Mechanical, Structural I & II, - April and October;
(B) Agricultural, Control Systems, Fire Protection, Industrial, Metallurgical, Mining and Mineral, Nuclear, Petroleum - October.
(C) Architectural, Naval Architecture and Marine - April.
(b) All examinations are given at the times and places determined by the Board in the months indicated in Subparagraph (a). Complete applications for professional registration and in-training registration must be filed with the Board by January 1st for April examinations and by July 1st for October examinations. Applications or materials received after the cutoff dates will be processed for the next Board meeting and subsequent exam.
(c) When an applicant has paid the proper fee but is unable to take the first scheduled examination, he may request in writing, sixty (60) days prior to the examination date, an extension which will permit the applicant to take the next scheduled examination without submitting a reexamination fee. A request for an extension beyond the next scheduled examination will not be considered except for reasons of hardship, such as substantiated serious illness or absence from the country.
(d) Applications for admittance to the examination may be denied by the Board for any of the following reasons:
(i) If the examination or reexamination fee is not received on or before the specified date;
(ii) If an applicant fails to successfully complete all parts of the examination or examinations to which the applicant is admitted within three (3) years after taking any part of the examination or examinations;
(iii) If an applicant fails to comply with any of the provisions of The Act, or these rules concerning applications.
(e) An applicant who does not complete the registration process or who fails to achieve a passing grade on an examination may reapply for registration or reexamination within two (2) years of original application date by paying the appropriate registration or examination fee or fees. All examination candidates who have three unsuccessful attempts of a NCEES examination, irrespective of where tested, are required to earn twelve (12) college semester credit hours in the subject matter relevant to the failed examination in order to be re-qualified to sit for the examination.
(f) It is NCEES policy not to allow applicants to review examination materials after taking an exam. The Board shall only release examination results on a pass/fail basis.
(g) An applicant may withdraw their application for registration by written request to the Board. An approved withdrawal shall be considered a denial of an application, with neither prejudice nor refund of fee.
Section 4. Admission to the Professional Examination; Out-of-State Applicants with In-Training Status. An applicant for registration as a professional engineer or professional land surveyor who has successfully completed the fundamentals examination in another jurisdiction, which is equivalent to those examinations administered in Wyoming, may be admitted to take the professional examination. Proof of in-training status must be forwarded directly from the authority which administered the original examination. An applicant must further comply with all the education and experience requirements set forth in this chapter.
(a) The Board currently recognizes the following branches of professional engineering:
(b) An applicant must submit a separate application and application fee for each branch for which application is made. An applicant who wishes to change the branch of engineering after the application has been evaluated shall submit the request in writing and pay an additional application fee.
(c) An applicant will be registered only in the branch in which the examination has been successfully completed.
(a) An applicant for engineer-in-training registration shall be of good moral character and repute, and
(b) Have earned a bachelor degree in an engineering curriculum or currently be enrolled in an engineering curriculum and within thirty (30) semester credit hours of graduation, approved by the Board. To qualify for admission to the fundamentals examination on the basis of education, an applicant must be a graduate of a four-year engineering degree program accredited at the time of graduation by ABET/EAC. If an applicant is a graduate of a non-accredited four-year engineering degree program, the Board shall evaluate the applicant's transcript to determine whether it is substantially equivalent to an ABET/EAC accredited curriculum. Transcripts from foreign institutions shall be evaluated by an independent service acceptable to the Board, and the associated evaluation fees are the responsibility of the applicant. If the curriculum is determined to be substantially equivalent, the applicant shall qualify for admission to the fundamentals examination, and
(c) An applicant shall take and pass the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination with a minimum score determined by NCEES and approved by the Board. The fundamentals examination is administered by the Board and consists of the following:
Fundamentals of Engineering (provided by the NCEES) - 8 hours.
(a) An applicant for registration as a professional engineer shall be of good moral character and repute, be registered as an engineer-in-training pursuant to The Act and meet the examination and other requirements of this rule.
(b) An applicant shall have been actively engaged in the practice of engineering for at least four (4) years beyond registration as an engineer-in-training, of which a maximum of one-year may be credited for postgraduate engineering education. Work experience credited toward the four-year active engagement requirement shall be directly related to the applicant's branch of engineering and of a character satisfactory to the Board, which shall be under the direct supervision of a registered professional engineer.
(c) An applicant who has graduated from a four-year degree program in engineering, accredited by ABET/EAC or an equivalent organization at the time of graduation, and who has been actively engaged in engineering practice of a character satisfactory to the Board for at least twenty (20) years after graduation, is exempt from the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination upon written request and Board approval.
(d) An applicant shall take and pass the professional engineer examination with a minimum score determined by NCEES and approved by the Board. The professional examinations are administered by the Board and consist of the following:
(i) Agricultural, Architectural, Chemical, Civil, Control Systems, Electrical and Computer, Environmental, Fire Protection, Industrial, Mechanical, Metallurgical, Mining and Mineral, Nuclear, Petroleum, Naval Architecture and Marine, Structural I, and Structural II;
(A) Principles and Practice (provided by the NCEES) - 8 hours.
(a) An applicant who holds a valid registration in another state, jurisdiction, territory, or country (authority) may be granted registration without examination, provided the applicant submits evidence acceptable to the Board that the education, experience, and examination requirements under which registered in the original jurisdiction were substantially equivalent to or greater than those existing in Wyoming at the time of the applicant's original registration.
(b) For purposes of this rule, "evidence acceptable to the Board" shall mean a completed application as described in Section I of this Chapter and including registration documentation forwarded directly to the Board from the registration authority on Verification of Registration forms provided by the Board, or an NCEES Record Book. Such registration documentation shall contain information concerning the requirements in force at the time the candidate was originally registered, the method of registration including examination results, cutoff scores, engineering branch, the date of original registration and the current status of the registration.
(c) An applicant who is currently registered in another state or jurisdiction of the United States and submits materials to support comity registration as indicated in Subparagraph (a) of this section, including specifically, demonstration of an ABET/EAC engineering bachelor's degree, passing scores on the NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering and Principles and Practice Examinations, and at least four (4) years of qualifying experience, may be registered in Wyoming without examination. Such registration may be done by the Executive Director with ratification by the Board at the next regular meeting.
(a) An applicant for land surveyor-in-training registration shall be of good moral character and repute, and
(b) Have a bachelor of science degree in a land surveying or engineering curriculum accredited by ABET/TAC or ABET/ASAC (land surveying) or ABET/EAC (engineering) (surveying) which curriculum includes at least thirty (30) semester credit hours in surveying, mapping and other courses approved by the Board, or
(c) Have an associate degree in surveying technology in a curriculum accredited at the time of graduation by ABET/TAC or ABET/ASAC or otherwise approved by the Board plus four (4) years of combined office and field experience in land surveying, of which two (2) years shall have been in boundary land surveying projects under the supervision of a registered professional land surveyor.
(d) The applicant shall take and pass the Fundamentals of Land Surveying Examination with a minimum score determined by NCEES and approved by the Board. The fundamentals examination is administered by the Board and consists of the following:
Fundamentals of Land Surveying (provided by the NCEES) - 8 hours.
(a) An applicant for registration as a professional land surveyor shall be of good moral character and repute, be registered as a land surveyor-in-training pursuant to The Act, and meet the examination and other requirements of this rule. The applicant must also be proficient in boundary land surveying.
(b) An applicant shall have been actively engaged in the practice of land surveying for at least four (4) years beyond registration as a land surveyor-in-training, of which a maximum of one-year may be credited for postgraduate land surveying education experience on other than boundary surveying projects. Work experience credited toward the four (4) year active engagement requirement shall be of a character satisfactory to the Board, and shall be under the direct supervision of a registered professional land surveyor.
(c) The applicant shall take and pass the professional land surveyor examination with a minimum score determined by NCEES and approved by the Board. The land surveyor examination is administered by the Board and consists of the following:
(i) Principles and Practice (provided by the NCEES) - 6 hours.
(ii) Wyoming Land Surveying Examination (provided by the Board) - 2 hours.
(iii) Wyoming Land Surveying Take-Home Examination (provided by the Board) an applicant will be allowed ninety (90) days to complete the Take-Home Examination. When reworking problems answered incorrectly, an additional sixty (60) days will be granted, with no more than two (2) sixty (60) day extensions permitted. Failure to pass in the required time requires the applicant to forfeit all previously completed examination problems, and to complete an entire new Take-Home Examination.
(d) An applicant who holds a valid registration in another state, jurisdiction, territory, or country (authority) may be considered for registration provided the applicant submits evidence acceptable to the Board that the education, experience, and examination requirements under which the applicant was registered in the original jurisdiction were substantially equivalent to or greater than those existing in Wyoming at the time of the applicant's original registration. Said applicant, if approved by the Board, may be required to take and pass the NCEES and/or Wyoming examinations, as described in Subparagraph (c) of this section, with a minimum score determined by NCEES and/or the Board.
(e) For purposes of this rule, "evidence acceptable to the Board" shall mean a completed application as described in Section 1 of this Chapter and including registration documentation forwarded directly to the Board from the registration authority on Verification of Registration forms provided by the Board, or an NCEES Record Book. Such registration documentation shall contain information concerning the requirements in force at the time the candidate was originally registered, the method of registration including examination results, cutoff scores, the date of original registration, and the current status of the registration.
(a) An applicant who holds a valid registration in another state, jurisdiction, territory, or country (authority) may be granted registration, provided the applicant submits evidence acceptable to the Board that the education, experience, and examination requirements under which the applicant was registered in the original jurisdiction were substantially equivalent to or greater than those existing in Wyoming at the time of the applicant's original registration, and successfully passes the Wyoming examinations.
(b) For purposes of this rule, "evidence acceptable to the Board" shall mean a completed application as described in Section 1 of this Chapter and including registration documentation forwarded directly to the Board from the registration authority on Verification of Registration forms provided by the Board, or an NCEES Record Book. Such registration documentation shall contain information concerning the requirements in force at the time the candidate was originally registered, the method of registration including examination results, cutoff scores, the date of original registration, and the current status of the registration.