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Proposed New Licensure Model

NPSE has advocated changing the licensure process for becoming a professional engineer. Under the model shown to the right, an individual, upon granting from an ABET accredited engineering college would take the fundamental exam. Upon passage, they would then be a "registered engineer." After four years of experience they could sit for a "professional" exam (ethics, law rules, regulations). Upon passage of this exam, they would be a licensed professional engineer.

Let us know what you think.

Question: Is the teaching of advanced level engineering courses (design courses) the practice of enginnering?

Under current Iowa law, no professor is required to be a licensed professional engineer. However, the state licensing board is considering expanding the definition of the practice of engineering to include the teaching of certain design level courses.

Would you support a procedure whereby professors meeting a specified level of education and a specified number or year of teaching would be "grandfathered" in much the same way the first licensed engineers were when the state's license law was first implemented?

Let us know what you think.