California Code of Regulations › Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations › Division 5 - Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors › Article 3 - Examinations › Section 438 - Waiver of Fundamentals Examination

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) An applicant for licensure as a
				professional engineer whose qualifications meet all requirements of the code
				and rules of the Board will be allowed to appear for only the second division
				of the written examination prescribed by Section
				6755 of the Code if he or she
				meets one or more of the following requirements:
(1) Holds valid licensure as a professional
				engineer in another branch in California.
(2) Holds valid certification as an
				engineer-in-training in another state obtained by passing a written examination
				in which the content of the examination is designed to test the candidate's
				knowledge of fundamental engineering subjects, including mathematics and the
				basic sciences.
(3) Is a graduate
				of an approved engineering curriculum and submits satisfactory evidence to the
				Board that he or she has fifteen (15) years or more of additional engineering
				work experience satisfactory to the Board that has been gained in addition to
				graduation, or any other education experience, and while performing engineering
				tasks under the direction of a person legally authorized to practice in an
				applicant's branch of engineering.
(4) Is a graduate of a non-approved
				engineering curriculum or an approved engineering technology curriculum and
				submits satisfactory evidence to the Board that he or she has seventeen (17)
				years or more of additional engineering work experience satisfactory to the
				Board that has been gained in addition to graduation, or any other education
				experience, and while performing engineering tasks under the direction of a
				person legally authorized to practice in an applicant's branch of
				engineering.
(5) Is a graduate of
				an approved engineering curriculum and an approved post-graduate engineering
				curriculum and submits satisfactory evidence to the Board that he or she has
				fourteen (14) years or more of additional engineering work experience
				satisfactory to the Board that has been gained in addition to graduation, or
				any other education experience, and while performing engineering tasks under
				the direction of a person legally authorized to practice in an applicant's
				branch of engineering.
(6) Is a
				graduate of a nonapproved engineering curriculum or an approved engineering
				technology curriculum and an approved postgraduate engineering curriculum and
				submits satisfactory evidence to the Board that he or she has fourteen (14)
				years or more of additional engineering work experience satisfactory to the
				Board that has been gained in addition to graduation, or any other education
				experience, and while performing engineering tasks under the direction of a
				person legally authorized to practice in an applicant's branch of
				engineering.
(7) Is the holder of
				an earned doctorate in engineering from a department or program at a university
				or college where the undergraduate engineering curriculum in the same branch of
				engineering is an approved engineering curriculum; or is serving in a
				tenure-track faculty position in an approved engineering curriculum at the
				level of Assistant Professor or higher.