Get your PE by 2015

[PEGILL]

Q-NCEES is on the record of supporting more than the bachelors degree as the entry level educational requirement for licensure. What NCEES programs have been implemented to accomplish the increase in engineering education and when do you believe such a standard will be in place?

Henn Rebane: This question is about what we know as B+30. The standard is in place now, and is found in the 2007 revision of the NCEES Model Law that specifies the minimum education for admission to the 8-hour PE exam. It added that the applicant has to have an "additional 30 credits of acceptable upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level coursework from approved course providers." This is found in Section 130.10 of the Model Law and has an effective date of January 1, 2015. There is more detail, but this is the essence of it. What is "acceptable coursework" and how to approve course providers are currently being worked on. It is likely that member boards need time beyond 2015 for rule making and passing of implementing legislation, so the timeline may slip a few years.

Here is the link for the Model Law. Got to page 19.

http://www.ncees.org/introduction/about_nc...s_model_law.pdf

:Locolaugh:

 

[kevo_55]

NSPE magazine has an article about this for this month's issue.

I guess NE has introduced legislation, but it won't go anywhere this year. The article says something to the effect that it may be atleast NE law starting 2020 though.