General (Code of Ethics)
A profession versus an occupation
What is Engineering?
Licensees shall undertake assignments only when qualified by education or experience in the specific technical fields of engineering or surveying involved.
What is Licensee’s Obligation to Employer and Clients?
Three of the five requirements an engineers must have to be eligible to take the PE exam
1. Be of good character and reputation
2. Satisfy the education criteria
3. Satisfy the experience criteria
4. Pass the applicable examinations
5. Submit five references?
The board can do this if you are found guilty of any negligence, incompetence, or misconduct in the practice of engineering or surveying
What is suspend, revoke, place on probation, fine, recover costs, and/or reprimand?
The creative product of the intellect and normally includes inventions, symbols, literary works, patents, and designs.
What is Intellectual Property?
The first of 3 major sections of the Model Rules
What is the Licensee‘s Obligation to the Public?
Licensees shall not partner, practice, or offer to practice with any person or firm that they know is engaged in fraudulent or dishonest business or professional practices.
What is Licensee’s Obligation to the Public?
Years of experience needed to become a PE for a PhD who has not passed the FE and PE
What is 4?
Being guilty of a misdemeaner which does not involve dishonesty and is not related to engineering?
What is not grounds for disciplinary action?
Also known as “cradle to grave)”
What is life-cycle analysis?
The second of 3 major sections of the Model Rules
What is the Licensee‘s Obligation to Employers and Clients?
Licensees shall make a reasonable effort to inform another licensee whose work is believed to contain a material discrepancy, error, or omission that may impact the health, safety, or welfare of the public, unless such reporting is legally prohibited.
What is Licensee’s Obligation to Other Licensees?
Years of experience needed to become a PE for a BS who has passed the FE and PE
What is 4?
Conviction or pleading guilty to rape, DUI, drug trafficking
What is grounds for disciplinary action including PE license revoking?
The five sustainable principles
What is safety, public health, quality of life, resource allocation, and non-renewable resources?
The third of 3 major sections of the Model Rules
What is the Licensee‘s Obligation to Other Licensees?
Licensees shall not solicit or accept gratuities, directly or indirectly, from contractors, their agents, or other parties in connection with work for employers or clients.
What is Licensee’s Obligation to Employer and Clients?
KU’s engineering school is this type of program, which in turn allows you to take the FE and PE exams
What is ABET Accredited?
Providing information requested by the board as a result of a formal or informal complaint to the board that alleges a violation of this Act
What is not grounds for disciplinary action?
The three types of patents
What is Utility, Design, and Plant?
Competing issues of risk vs. benefit, or safety vs. economics may require judgments that are not fully addressed simply by application of the code.
What is a tradeoff?
Licensees shall not falsify or permit misrepresentation of their, or their associates’, academic or professional qualifications.
What is Licensee’s Obligation to Other Licensees?
The record that allows you to get comity in another state w/o rexamination and minimal paperwork?
What is NCEES Council Record?
Habitual intoxication or addiction to the use of drugs or alcohol
What is grounds for disciplinary action including PE license revoking?
A firm that practices or offers to practice engineering or surveying is required to obtain this from the board in accordance with the Rules.
What is a Certificate of Authorization?