§ 25-31-1-2 — Definitions

As used in this chapter:
(a) "Board" means the state board of registration for professional
engineers.
(b) "Professional engineer" means an individual who, by reason of
that individual's special knowledge of the mathematical and physical
sciences and the principles and methods of engineering analysis and
design which are acquired by education and practical experience, is
qualified to engage in the practice of engineering as attested by that
individual's registration as a professional engineer.
(c) "Engineering intern" means an individual who:
(1) is a graduate from an approved engineering curriculum of four
(4) years or more or who has acquired, through engineering
education and experience in engineering work, knowledge and
skill approximating that obtained by graduation in an approved
engineering curriculum of four (4) years or more;
(2) has successfully passed an examination as prescribed in
section 14 of this chapter; and
(3) has been issued by the board an appropriate certificate of
enrollment as an engineering intern.
(d) "Practice of engineering" means any service or creative work
that the adequate performance of requires engineering education,
training, and experience in the application of special knowledge of the
mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences to services or
creative work that includes the following:
(1) Consultation.
(2) Investigation.
(3) Evaluation.
(4) Planning, including planning the use of land and water.
(5) The design of or the supervision of the design of engineering
works and systems.
(6) Engineering surveys and studies or the supervision of
engineering surveys and studies, including all surveying activities
required to support the sound conception, planning, design,
construction, maintenance, and operation of engineered projects,
but not including the surveying of real property for the
establishment of land boundaries, subdivisions, rights-of-way,
easements, and the dependent or independent surveys or
resurveys of the public land survey system.
(7) Evaluation of construction for the purpose of assuring
compliance with specifications, plans, and designs, in connection
with any public or private utilities, structures, buildings,
machines, equipment, processes, work systems, or projects.
The term "practice of engineering" does not include the work ordinarily
performed by persons who operate or maintain machinery or
equipment.
(e) "Approved engineering curriculum" means an engineering
curriculum of four (4) years or more that has been approved by the
board. In approving the engineering curriculum, the board may take
into consideration the standards of accreditation adopted by the
Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for
Engineering and Technology.
(f) "Practice or offer to practice engineering" means the act of an
individual or a business who by verbal claim, sign, advertisement,
letterhead, card, telephone listing, or in any other way represents the
individual or the business to be a professional engineer or who
performs, or offers to perform, any acts or work involving the practice
of engineering.
(g) "Licensing agency" means the Indiana professional licensing
agency established by IC 25-1-5-3.
Formerly: Acts 1935, c.148, s.2; Acts 1947, c.262, s.2; Acts
1957, c.320, s.1; Acts 1961, c.277, s.1; Acts 1965, c.284, s.2; Acts
1969, c.279, s.1. As amended by Acts 1981, P.L.222, SEC.229;
P.L.132-1984, SEC.40; P.L.23-1991, SEC.14; P.L.215-1993, SEC.2;
P.L.1-2006, SEC.475; P.L.78-2017, SEC.18.