Sec.20-300-1. Definitions

(a) "Board" means the state board of examiners for professional engineers and land surveyors as provided for in the general statutes.

(b) "Engineer-in-training" means a person who has been granted a license as an engineer-in-training after meeting in part the requirements for licensure as a professional engineer and who, upon completion of the requisite years of experience in engineering work of a character satisfactory to the board, is eligible for the second part of the prescribed examination for licensure as a professional engineer.

(c) "Surveyor-in-training" means a person who has been granted a license as a surveyor-in-training after meeting in part the requirements for licensure as a licensed land surveyor and who, upon completion of the requisite years of experience in land surveying work of a character satisfactory to the board, is eligible for the remaining parts of the prescribed examination for licensure as a land surveyor.

(d) "Accredited programs" means those specific engineering and surveying curriculums offered at colleges, universities and other educational institutions within the United States or Canada that have received accreditation from the accreditation board for engineering and technology (ABET) or the Canadian accreditation board (CAB) and have been accepted by the board as recognition of the applicants attaining a first professional degree to qualify for licensure as a professional engineer. For land surveying licensure, the board may recognize educational institutions whose surveying curriculum have received regional accreditation.

(e) "Non-graduate" means an applicant for a professional engineer, land surveyor, engineer-in-training, or surveyor-in-training license who did not graduate from an accredited program, as accredited by ABET or CAB, but who may possess an engineering degree from a non-accredited engineering curriculum at educational institutions in the UnitStates, Canada, or other nations outside of the United States. It shall also apply to graduates of engineering technology and certain science curriculums and other applicants for licensure possessing no professional degrees but having the requisite years of experience acceptable to the board and meeting the requirements cited in the state statutes.

(f) "Shop Drawing" means a working drawing, diagram, illustration, schedule, performance chart, brochure, or other data which illustrates how specific portions of the system design shall be fabricated and/or installed.

(Effective November 19, 1993)