For the purposes of these rules, the following definitions
shall apply:
"Accredited" means a program accredited by the
Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology, Inc. (ABET) or the Canadian
Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) or another accrediting body accepted by
the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES).
"Board" means the engineering and land
surveying examining board provided by chapter 542B of the Iowa Code.
"Design coordination, " as used in the
definition of the practice of engineering, includes the review and coordination
of technical submissions prepared by others including, as appropriate and
without limitation, consulting engineers, architects, landscape architects,
land surveyors, and other professionals working under the direction of the
engineer.
"Engineering documents" includes all plans,
specifications, drawings, and reports (including supporting calculations), if
the preparation of such documents constitutes or requires the practice of
engineering.
"Engineering survey, " as used in the
definition of the practice of engineering, includes all survey activities
required to support the sound conception, planning, design, construction,
maintenance, and operation of engineered projects, but excludes the survey of
real property for the establishment of land boundaries, rights-of-way,
easements, and the dependent or independent surveys or resurveys of the public
land system.
"Engineer intern" means a person who passes an
examination in the fundamental engineering subjects, but does not entitle the
person to claim to be a professional engineer.
"In responsible charge " means having direct
control of and personal supervision over any land surveying work or work
involving the practice of engineering. One or more persons, jointly or
severally, may be in responsible charge.
"land surveying documents " includes all
plats, maps, surveys, and reports, if the preparation thereof constitutes or
requires the practice of land surveying.
"Practice of engineering " means any service
or creative work, the adequate performance of which requires engineering
education, training, and experience in the application of special knowledge of
the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences.
1. Engineering services include:
*Consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, and
design;
*Design coordination of engineering works and systems;
*Planning the use of natural resources such as land, water and
air;
*Performing engineering surveys, calculations, and studies;
and
*Review of construction for the purpose of monitoring
compliance with drawings and specifications.
2. The
practice of engineering includes:
*Such services or creative work as listed above, either public
or private, in connection with any utilities, structures, buildings, machines,
equipment, processes, work systems, projects, and industrial or consumer
products of a mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or thermal nature
insofar as they involve safeguarding life, health, or property;
*Such other professional services as may be necessary to the
planning, progress, and completion of the services identified in this
definition;
*Environmental engineering activities which may be involved in
developing plans, reports, or actions to remediate an environmentally hazardous
site;
*Design of fixturing devices for manufacturing machinery that
must be performed by a licensed professional engineer or under the responsible
charge and direct supervision of a professional engineer unless performed
within the industrial exemption by a full-time employee of a corporation which
constructs the fixtures.
3.
Activities that the
board will construe as the practice of engineering for
which the
board may by order impose a civil penalty upon a person who is not
licensed as a professional engineer are set out in Iowa Code section
542B.27.
1. The practice of land surveying includes,
but is not limited to, the following:
* Locating, relocating, establishing, reestablishing, setting,
or resetting of permanent monumentation for any property line or boundary of
any tract or parcel of land. Setting permanent monuments constitutes an
improvement to real property.
*Making any survey for the division or subdivision of any tract
or parcel of land.
*Determination, by the use of the principles of land surveying,
of the position for any permanent survey monument or reference point, or
setting, resetting, or replacing any survey monument or reference point
excluding the responsibility of engineers pursuant to Iowa Code section
314.8.
*Creating and writing metes and bounds descriptions as defined
in Iowa Code section
354.2.
*Geodetic surveying for determination of the size and shape of
the earth both horizontally and vertically for the precise positioning of
permanent land survey monuments on the earth utilizing angular and linear
measurements through spatially oriented spherical geometry.
*Creation, preparation, or modification of electronic or
computerized data, including land information systems and geographical
information systems, relative to the performance of the activities listed
above.
2. Activities that
the board will construe as the practice of land surveying and for which the
board may by order impose a civil penalty upon a person who is not licensed as
a professional land surveyor are set out in Iowa Code section
542B.27.
"Professional engineer " means a person, who,
by reason of the person's knowledge of mathematics, the physical sciences, and
the principles of engineering, acquired by professional education or practical
experience, is qualified to engage in the practice of engineering.
"Professional land surveyor" means a person
who engages in the practice of land surveying as defined in this rule.
"Written, " when used to describe an
examination, shall mean a computer-based format.
