Examinations

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  • (a) Examinations shall be held twice each year at such times and places as the Board determines.

  • (b) Each examination shall be broken down into three or more parts, each part of equal point value. The passing grade on any examination shall be an average of 75% in all parts combined. In order to determine this average, no part shall be accepted with a grade less than 65% and only one part with a grade less than 75%. An applicant failing one examination may apply for reexamination in the part or parts which he failed. An applicant who received an average grade of less than 50% must be reexamined in all parts and he must pass all those failed parts during any one reexamination. An applicant who fails more than one-third of the examination must be reexamined in all parts. The Board may permit the use of books, tables, graphs, and the like during examinations.

  • (c) The following is a listing of the general subject matter to be covered in the respective examinations:

    • (1) Architects. Structural design; selection and use of materials, mechanical, and electrical equipment; counselling and administration; supervision of construction; history of architectural programming; land and community planning; architectural design; professional ethics.

    • (2) Engineers. Structural design of buildings and structures; hydraulics including stream flow, flow in pipes, hydraulic power, and machinery; thermodynamics including heat transfer, boilers, prime movers, and power equipment; machine design including mechanical movement and stresses in machine parts; electrical equipment including generators and motors, transmission and distribution of electrical energy, electrical control and protection; engineering economics including economic comparison, fixed and operating costs, valuation; professional ethics and land surveying for graduate civil engineers.

    • (3) Engineers-in-training and architects-in-training. Fundamental engineering or architectural subjects.

    • (4) Land surveyors. Mathematics including advanced algebra, logarithm, plane and solid geometry, plane and spherical trigonometry; theory and practice of surveying; limits of precision; use, care, and adjustment of instruments; traverses; computations or error of closure; mapping; land surveying; precision surveying; highway surveying; baselines and triangulation; geodetic surveying; determination of true meridian; magnetic declination and variation; determination of latitude and longitude; hydrographic surveying; land boundaries and monuments; land subdivisions; deed descriptions and conveyancing; surveying law; professional ethics.

  • (d) Satisfactory passing of an examination in architecture, engineering, or land surveying shall entitle an applicant who otherwise qualifies to a license respectively in architecture, engineering, or land surveying.


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