NAC625.220. Disciplines of engineering.

     1. Each applicant must specify the discipline of engineering in which he or she desires to be examined and licensed.

     2. The Board will classify applicants in a manner which is reasonably consistent with custom in the profession. The Board may classify and examine an applicant in the basic discipline of engineering which is most closely associated with the applicant’s area of concentration.

     3. An applicant may apply for licensure in the following disciplines of engineering:

     (a) Agricultural;

     (b) Chemical;

     (c) Civil;

     (d) Control systems;

     (e) Electrical;

     (f) Environmental;

     (g) Fire protection;

     (h) Geological;

     (i) Industrial;

     (j) Manufacturing;

     (k) Mechanical;

     (l) Metallurgical and materials;

     (m) Mining and mineral processing;

     (n) Naval architecture and marine;

     (o) Nuclear;

     (p) Petroleum;

     (q) Structural; or

     (r) Any other discipline of engineering which the Board deems appropriate.

     4. Each applicant must know the basic concepts of engineering in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, statics, dynamics, strength of materials, fluid mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics and economic analysis, and understand the application of these concepts in his or her specialized discipline of engineering.

     [Bd. of Reg’d Professional Eng’rs § 625.220, eff. 8-16-78]—(NAC A by Bd. of Reg’d Professional Eng’rs & Land Surv., 7-10-92)—(NAC A 1-13-94; A by Bd. of Professional Eng’rs & Land Surv. by R004-98, 4-17-98; R211-99, 5-10-2000; R073-09, 10-15-2010)