well what do you do typically? you may need to just be a little creative in the description (and i don't mean lie) and maybe make the answers a little vague. i had a friend denied for the same reason, but he reapplied with new descriptions and didn't have any problems. if you don't mind me asking, where do you work?
I work in Diamond Bar, CA. I've been trying to word my application as vaguely as possible (not lying but its called misrepresenting the truth)
I wouldn't recommend you misrepresent anything! Like has been mentioned before, be specific about the ENGINEERING tasks that your perform. If that is suitable experience then you will be approved for the exam. If not then you will not. I would imagine that being vague would actually hurt your cause.
I don't understand why the California board would have an issue with Traffic Engineering. I know plenty of traffic engineers who have been able to sit for the exam.
The rules set by the board are not the clearest.
Here is a set of the rules
6730.2. Requirement for responsible charge
It is the intent of the Legislature that the registration requirements that are imposed upon private sector professional engineers and engineering partnerships, firms, or corporations shall be 2011 8 Professional Engineers Act
imposed upon the state and any city, county, or city and county that shall adhere to those requirements. Therefore, for the purposes of Section 6730 and this chapter, at least one registered engineer shall be designated the person in responsible charge of professional engineering work for each branch of professional engineering practiced in any department or agency of the state, city, county, or city and county. Any department or agency of the state or any city, county, or city and county which has an unregistered person in responsible charge of engineering work on January 1, 1985, shall be exempt from this requirement until that time as the person currently in responsible charge is replaced.
6731. Civil engineering defined
Civil engineering embraces the following studies or activities in connection with fixed works for irrigation, drainage, waterpower, water supply, flood control, inland waterways, harbors, municipal improvements, railroads, highways, tunnels, airports and airways, purification of water, sewerage, refuse disposal, foundations, grading, framed and homogeneous structures, buildings, or bridges:
(a) The economics of, the use and design of, materials of construction and the determination of their physical qualities.
(B) The supervision of the construction of engineering structures.
© The investigation of the laws, phenomena and forces of nature.
(d) Appraisals or valuations.
(e) The preparation or submission of designs, plans and specifications and engineering reports.
(f) Coordination of the work of professional, technical, or special consultants.
(g) Creation, preparation, or modification of electronic or computerized data in the performance of the activities described in subdivisions (a) through (f).
Civil engineering also includes city and regional planning insofar as any of the above features are concerned therein.
Civil engineers registered prior to January 1, 1982, shall be authorized to practice all land surveying as defined in Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 8700) of Division 3.
[NOTE: The last registration number issued to a civil engineer registered before January 1, 1982 was 33,965.]
6731.1. Civil engineering; additional authority
Civil engineering also includes the practice or offer to practice, either in a public or private capacity, all of the following:
(a) Locates, relocates, establishes, reestablishes, or retraces the alignment or elevation for any of the fixed works embraced within the practice of civil engineering, as described in Section 6731.
(B) Determines the configuration or contour of the earth’s surface or the position of fixed objects above, on, or below the surface of earth by applying the principles of trigonometry or photogrammetry.
© Creates, prepares, or modifies electronic or computerized data in the performance of the activities described in subdivisions (a) and (B).
(d) Renders a statement regarding the accuracy of maps or measured survey data pursuant to subdivisions (a), (B), and ©.
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6731.2. Authority to offer to practice or procure land surveying
Any registered civil engineer may offer to practice, procure, and offer to procure, land surveying work incidental to his or her civil engineering practice, even though he or she is not authorized to perform that work, provided all the land surveying work is performed by, or under the direction of, a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer authorized to practice land surveying. Further, any registered civil engineer may manage or conduct as manager, proprietor, or agent, a civil engineering practice which offers to practice, procure, and offers to procure, such incidental land surveying work.
6731.3 Construction project management services
A registered civil engineer may also practice or offer to practice, either in a public or private capacity, construction project management services, including, but not limited to, construction project design review and evaluation, construction mobilization and supervision, bid evaluation, project scheduling, cost-benefit analysis, claims review and negotiation, and general management and administration of a construction project.
6731.4 Responsibility for construction management services
If a registered civil engineer provides construction management services pursuant to Section 6731.3, Section 6703.1 shall not limit the responsibility of the engineer for the services actually provided.
circuits is not exclusive to the practice of electrical engineering, as defined in subdivision (a).
