State Requirements for Engineers and Surveyors
Currently there are forty-two (42) States and the District of Columbia (DC) that require continuing professional competency (CPC) for licensed Professional Engineers, as well as forty-five (45) States and DC that require CPC for licensed Professional Surveyors. If you are licensed in any one of these States or DC, then you need to satisfy the continuing education PDH or CEU requirements mandated by your Licensing Board. For specific information regarding your PDH requirements, click on your state of licensure listed on the right side of this page.
The following is a statistical summary of the general or common requirements among these states:
Professional Engineers
The following states pre-approve continuing education sponsors/providers:
- Florida
- Indiana
- Maryland
- New Jersey
- New York
CEDengineering.com is a Board Approved PDH and CEU online sponsor/provider of continuing education engineering courses for Professional Engineers in all states listed above. Please click on Approved Sponsor to view our approval letters issued by the aforementioned State Licensing Boards.
Land Surveyors
The following states pre-approve continuing education sponsors/providers and/or courses:
- Delaware
- Florida
- Indiana
- Kansas (Standards of Practice only)
- Kentucky (Standards of Practice and Ethics only)
- Maryland
- Missouri
- New Jersey
- New York
- Rhode Island
- Tennessee
- Vermont
- West Virginia (Standards of Practice and Ethics only)
CEDengineering.com is currently seeking approval from all of the aforementioned State Licensing Boards.
Except for the States indicated in the section above, all other states do not require pre-approval of continuing education sponsors/providers or courses. It is ultimately your responsibility to ensure that the courses you select are in compliance with the requirements of your State Licensing Board.
Generally, online distance learning is accepted by all State Licensing Boards provided that:
- The course or activity is a course or activity whose purpose and objective are clear with a content that will maintain, improve or expand the skills and knowledge of the licensee's field of practice.
- The completion of the course can be independently verified by issuing a quiz and grading it with the results being maintained by the continuing education sponsor/provider for a period of time specified by each State Licensing Board.
- A certificate of completion is provided by the continuing education sponsor/provider to the licensee as evidence of successful completion.
For your convenience, CEDengineering.com courses are prepared in accordance with the requirements of all State Licensing Boards. Furthermore, our courses are supplemented with a professional quiz process intended to evaluate the licensee’s effort to strengthen and maintain competency in the technical, managerial, or ethical fields.
As such, CEDengineering.com courses are in compliance with and accepted by all the non-preapproval State Licensing Boards. So, if you complete a CEDengineering.com online course that your licensing board does not accept for any reason, not only we will refund you the full purchase price of the course, but we will offer you a replacement course of equivalent number of PDH or CEU credits at no additional cost. (Refer to our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee policy.)
The following States impose limitations on the number of PDHs that can be earned through online distance learning (non-live interactive instruction) each renewal period as follows:
Professional Engineers
- Iowa – up to 10 PDHs
- Nebraska – up to 7.5 PDHs
- Ohio – up to 6 PDHs through correspondence courses (click on OH Timed & Monitored for more details)
- Wisconsin – up to 17 PDHs
Land Surveyors
- Delaware – up to 8 PDHs
- Indiana – up to 12 PDHs
- Iowa – up to 15 PDHs
- Nebraska – up to 15 PDHs
- Ohio – up to 6 PDHs through correspondence courses (click on OH Timed & Monitored for more details)
- Rhode Island – up to 10 PDHs
- West Virginia – up to XX PDHs
All other States have no restrictions on the number of PDHs that can be earned through online distance learning each renewal period.
CEDengineering.com is required to report your PDH course activities to the following State Licensing Boards:
Professional Engineers
- Florida (Only the 2-PDH Florida Laws, Rules and Ethics course will be reported as required by the FBPE.)
Land Surveyors
- (Coming soon!)
For all other States, you are ultimately responsible for maintaining and submitting all records of your course activities required by your State Licensing Board. Therefore, we highly recommend that you print the “Certificate of Completion”, prepare a PDH Activity Log for your records, and submit to your State Licensing Board when requested.
For your convenience, CEDengineering.com maintains your PDH course activities in your account history indefinitely. As such, you can access your account at any time to retrieve your PDH course activities.
If you have any question on how to maintain and report your PDH credits to your state of licensure, or how to retrieve your PDH records from your CEDengineering.com account history, or about your state PDH requirements in general, please contact us at info@cedengineering.com.