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Board votes to allow rulemaking for UK MRA pathway, keeps California state exams; raises exam and fee updates
Summary
The Board voted to direct staff to draft rulemaking enabling an application pathway under the UK–NCEES mutual‑recognition agreement for qualifying chartered engineers, while preserving California state exams that address local seismic and laws requirements.
The Board voted to authorize staff to pursue rulemaking that would waive NCEES national examinations for applicants who qualify under the United Kingdom Engineering Council – NCEES mutual recognition agreement (MRA), while preserving California‑specific exams for licensure.
In a recorded roll‑call, the Board adopted a motion directing staff to prepare rulemaking language so that chartered engineers from the United Kingdom who hold the International PE designation could apply to the Board without taking the relevant NCEES national exams. At the same time the Board explicitly reserved the right to require California’s second‑division/state exams — notably the seismic principles and California laws/regulations tests — for applicants who seek a California civil engineering license through that pathway. Staff told the Board the MRA certificates currently in circulation are small in number (the Engineering Council reported about 360 internationally designated engineers), and the Board asked staff to write rule language that defines which…
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