Wis. Admin. Code Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, and Professional Land Surveyors § A-E 13.02 - Definitions
Current through March 28, 2022
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Biennium" means a 2-year period
beginning August 1 of each even-numbered year.
(4) "Continuing education" means the planned,
professional development activities designed to contribute to the advancement,
extension and enhancement of the professional skills and scientific knowledge
of the registrant in the practice of professional engineering. Regular duties
are not considered qualifying activities.
(5) "Continuing education unit" or "CEU"
means a unit of credit customarily used for continuing education courses. One
"continuing education unit" equals 10 PDHs.
(6) "Course" or "activity" means any
qualifying "course" or "activity" with a clear purpose and objective that will
maintain, improve, or expand the skills and knowledge relevant to the
registrant's practice of professional engineering.
(7) "EAC/ABET" means the Engineering
Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and
Technology.
(8) "Professional
development hour" or "PDH" means a period of 50 minutes of actual instruction
or participation spent by the registrant in actual attendance or completion of
an approved educational activity. "PDHs" should be rounded down to the nearest
half hour and reported in increments of half hour with no activity of under a
half hour being acceptable as qualifying for "PDH" credit. "PDHs" shall not
exceed the actual contact clock hours of actual attendance.
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