Indiana Administrative Code › Title 865 - STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION FOR PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS › Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Rule 2 - Qualifications for Examination › Section 2-1 - Professional surveyors; education and work experience

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 25-21.5-2-14
Affected: IC 25-21.5-1-7; IC 25-21.5-5-2
Sec. 1.
(a) This
				section establishes the minimum education and experience requirements under IC
				25-21.5-5-2 for admission to the professional surveyor examination.
(b) The table in this subsection establishes
				provisions for evaluating combined education and experience to determine if it
				is sufficient to satisfy minimum registration requirements under IC 25-21.5-5-2
				for professional surveyor registration applicants. For all levels of education
				stated, a minimum of one-half (1/2) of the required experience must be obtained
				following receipt of the first degree obtained. The requirements are as
				follows:
Education
Minimum Years of Work Experience
Doctorate in surveying discipline following bachelor's
							 degree in a board-approved surveying curriculum
2
Master's degree in surveying discipline following
							 bachelor's degree in a board-approved surveying curriculum
3
Bachelor's degree in a board-approved surveying
							 curriculum
4
Doctorate in surveying following a bachelor's degree
							 that is not in a board-approved surveying curriculum
3
Master's degree in surveying following bachelor's
							 degree that is not in a board-approved surveying curriculum
4
Bachelor's degree that is not in a board-approved
							 surveying curriculum
5
Associate degree and meets the college course
							 requirements stated in subsection (c)
6
(c)
				The education of all applicants must include the following minimum level of
				education:
(1) Twelve (12) semester credit
				hours in college level mathematics, including at least a three (3) semester
				credit hour course in calculus or differential equations. One (1) course of no
				more than three (3) semester hours in statistics may count toward the required
				twelve (12).
(2) Five (5) semester
				credit hours in college level physics.
(3) Six (6) semester credit hours in any of
				the following college level science subjects:
(A) Chemistry.
(B) Astronomy.
(C) Physics.
(D) Geology.
(E) Botany.
(F) Dendrology.
(4) Twenty-seven (27) semester credit hours
				in college level surveying courses consisting of the following:
(A) Courses totaling at least twenty-four
				(24) semester credit hours that include substantial course work in each of the
				following eight (8) subjects:
(i) Land survey
				systems with substantial content related to the U.S. Public Land Survey System
				including the various instructions for surveys of the public lands, original
				surveys and resurveys, section corner perpetuation, lost and obliterated
				corners, and subdivision of sections.
(ii) Property surveying.
(iii) Analysis of and writing of property
				descriptions.
(iv) Boundary
				law.
(v) Surveying calculations,
				including mensuration statistics.
(vi) Subdivision planning and
				design.
(vii) Control surveying
				including GPS.
(viii) Geographic
				information systems (GIS).
(B) Courses totaling at least three (3)
				semester credit hours that include substantial course work in one (1) of the
				following:
(i) Topographic
				surveying.
(ii) Photogrammetric
				surveying.
(iii) Route
				surveying.
(iv) Construction
				surveying. One (1) basic engineering course related to roads, storm drainage,
				and sanitary sewer extensions may be counted toward the requirements of this
				clause.