West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 7 - Professional Engineers › Title 7 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS › Series 7-01 - Examination, Licensure and Practice of Professional Engineers › Section 7-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. "ABET" means
				ABET, Inc., formally known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and
				Technology.
2.2. "ABET/TAC" means
				the Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET, Inc., formally known as the
				Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
2.3. "Board" means the West Virginia State
				Board of Registration for Professional Engineers.
2.4. "COA" means Certificate of
				Authorization, which is a document required and issued in accordance with
				§
									7-1-11
				of these rules.
2.5. "College/Unit
				Semester/Quarter Hour" means the credit given for courses in an ABET approved
				program or other Board-approved courses approved in accordance with §
									7-1-10
				of these rules.
2.6. "Comity
				Applicant" means a person who is applying to become a registered PE in West
				Virginia and is currently in possession of a PE registration or certificate of
				licensure issued by a proper authority of a jurisdiction other than West
				Virginia.
2.7. "EI" means a
				certified Engineer Intern, who is a person who has been certified as such by
				this Board after having met the qualifications set forth in W. Va. Code §
									30-13-13
				and these rules.
2.8. "FE" means
				the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination.
2.9. "Foreign Degree Applicant" means a
				person applying for certification or registration who received a Baccalaureate
degree in Engineering from a non-ABET accredited foreign institution
				outside of the United States.
2.10. "Firm" means a firm, corporation,
				partnership, joint stock association, private practitioner employing others, or
				sole proprietor employing no one but himself/herself which practices or offers
				to practice engineering.
2.11.
"Initial license" means obtaining a license in West Virginia for the
				practice of engineering for the first time.
2.12. "License" or "licensure" means the
				official authorization by the Board to engage in the practice of or the
				offering of engineering in the state.
2.13. "Low-income individual" means an
				individual in the local labor market as defined in W. Va. Code §
									21-1C-2,
				whose household adjusted gross income is below 130 percent of the federal
				poverty line. This term also includes any person enrolled in a state or federal
				public assistance program including, but not limited to, the Temporary
				Assistance for Needy Families Program (TANF), Medicaid, or the Supplemental
				Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
2.14. "Military families" means any person
				who serves as an active member of the armed forces of the United States, the
				National Guard, or a reserve component as described in
				38
				U. S. C. §
										101, honorably discharged
				veterans of those forces, and their spouses. This term also includes surviving
				spouses of deceased service members who have not remarried.
2.15. "NCEES" means the National Council of
				Examiners for Engineering and Surveying.
2.16. "PDH" means a Professional Development
				Hour, which is one contact hour of instruction or presentation designed to keep
				a professional engineer current in his or her branch/discipline.
2.17. "PE" means a registrant or registered
				Professional Engineer, who is a person who has passed the PE exam and is an
				acronym used after an engineer's name to indicate he or she is a registered
				engineer with the Board.
2.18. "PE
				exam" means the Principles and Practice of Engineering Examination.
2.19. "Registrant" means a PE.
2.20. "Satisfactory" means that which a
				reasonable person would find acceptable for purposes of applying to the Board
				for licensure.
2.21. "Status"
				refers to the designation of a current or former registrant, including the
				designations of nonpracticing status set
forth in W. Va. Code §
										30-13-13a.
2.22.
"Unreversed", as that term
				refers to a criminal conviction, means that a conviction has not been set
				aside, vacated, pardoned, or expunged.