Illinois Administrative Code › Title 68 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Part 1480 - THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE ACT OF 1989 › Section 1480.185 - Continuing Education

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The continuing education required as a condition for license
				renewal under the Act is set forth in this Section. All structural engineers
				shall meet these requirements.
a)
			 Continuing Education Requirements
1) For every
			 renewal, renewal applicants shall complete 30 hours of Continuing Education
			 (CE) relevant to the practice of structural engineering during each pre-renewal
			 period. The pre-renewal period is the 24 months preceding the expiration date
			 of the license. Failure to comply with these requirements may result in
			 nonrenewal of the structural engineer's license or other disciplinary action,
			 or both. A maximum of 15 qualifying CE hours gained within six months from the
			 current renewal deadline and not used for the current renewal period may be
			 carried over to the subsequent renewal period but shall not include the
			 requirements for the State statutes and rules, professional conduct and/or
			 ethics, or sexual harassment prevention training, which must all be satisfied
			 during each pre-renewal period. CEs used in this manner must be documented on
			 the appropriate Department issued form.
2) Beginning with the November 30, 2020
			 renewal and every renewal thereafter, the total continuing education hours
			 shall include one hour of sexual harassment prevention training that shall meet
			 the requirements of 68 Ill. Adm. Code
			 1130.400. A licensee completing
			 a course on sexual harassment prevention developed or offered by the Illinois
			 Department of Human Rights [775 ILCS 5 ], the licensee's
			 employer or an acceptable provider listed within this Section, may count that
			 course toward the 1 hour requirement under this Section. (See Section 1205-15.5
			 of the Department of Professional Regulation Law [20 ILCS 2105
			 ].)
3) Beginning with the November
			 30, 2024 renewal and every renewal thereafter, the total CE hours shall
			 include:
A) A minimum of 1 hour of programs,
			 courses or activities in the area of Illinois statutes and rules that regulate
			 structural engineers and structural engineering.
B) A minimum of 1 hour of programs, courses,
			 or activities in the area of professional conduct and/or ethics.
4) Structural engineers licensed
			 in Illinois but residing and practicing in another state must comply with the
			 CE requirements set forth in this Section. Continuing education credit hours
			 used to satisfy the CE requirements of another state and meeting the
			 requirements of this Section may be submitted toward fulfillment of the CE
			 requirements of the State of Illinois.
5) The minimum length of any single CE
			 activity is one hour. After completion of the initial CE hour, credit may be
			 given in one-half hour increments.
6) One continuing education hour shall
			 represent a minimum of 50 minutes of instruction or participation. No credit
			 will be allowed for introductory remarks, meals, breaks or administrative
			 matters related to courses of study. For a CE activity consisting of a single
			 presentation with duration greater than 60 minutes or consisting of multiple
			 individual presentations with total duration greater than 60 minutes, the CE
			 credit earned shall be determined by totaling the minutes of instruction or
			 participation and dividing by 60 to convert to hours. The number of hours from
			 this calculation shall be rounded down to the nearest one-half hour increment.
			 A maximum of 12 CE hours may be earned within a 24-hour period, where a period
			 begins at midnight.
7) Nontechnical
			 portions of a CE activity, such as receptions, dinners, etc., do not qualify
			 for credit as CE.