Professional registration and licensure

• ¨Professional registration and licensure earns you the title of Professional Engineer (PE) 
  
• ¨For most engineers, professional registration is optional
• ¨About 20% of all practicing engineers are registered (Civil engineers have a higher rate of registration)
  
• ¨For fields of work that involve public safety, professional registration may be mandatory¨

• ¨Professional registration is handled at the state level
• ¨Requirements are almost uniform across states due to the efforts of the National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors (NCEES)
• ¨More information is available at http://www.ncees.org , where they have links to each states’ contact information regarding professional registration
  
  State licensing boards:
  http://ncees.org/licensing-boards/

• ¨For Texas, information for professional registrations can be found at the Texas Board of Professional Engineers’ website:  http://engineers.texas.gov
• ¨The requirements for professional registration in Texas are:
• ¤Obtain an ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accredited engineering degree
• ¤Pass the NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam
• ¤Obtain four years of engineering practice and get three references from currently licensed PE’s 
• ¤Pass the NCEES Principles and Practice of Engineering Exam (PE) and the Texas Ethics of Engineering exam
• ¨There are some variations to the process regarding graduate degrees

¨Fundamentals of Engineering Exam

• ¤Offered every year in April and October
• ¤8 hour closed book exam – Morning Session 120 M/C Questions (General), Afternoon Session 60 M/C Questions (Discipline Specific)
• ¤Test locations: Fort Worth, Austin, El Paso, Houston
• ¤Student Sites: Texas Tech, Texas A&M, West Texas A&M, UTEP, Texas A&M Kingsville, UTSA, University of Texas Pan Am, LeTourneau University
• ¤After passing FE (Fundamentals of Engineering) exam and obtaining degree, you can apply with the state to be an Engineer-In-Training (EIT)
• ¤Recommendations: prep course, take exam senior year 
  
  
  Principles and Practice of Engineering Exam
  
  
• ¤Offered every year in April and October
• ¤8 hour discipline specific closed book exam – M/C and Essay questions
• ¤Test locations: Fort Worth, Austin, El Paso, Houston

¨Texas Ethics of Engineering Exam

• ¤Can be taken online
• ¤Open book
  
  Additional certifications: