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Wyoming Ethics, Rules, and Laws for Professional Engineers and Land surveyors


Quiz Questions

1. The Wyoming board of professional engineers and professional land surveyors is created to regulate the practice of professional engineering and professional land surveying in order to safeguard life, health and property and to promote the public welfare.
True
False
2. Any Business Entity offering to practice professional engineering or professional land surveying must be registered with the Board.
Must be
Does not have to
3. (vii) “Practice of professional engineering” means performing for others or offering to perform for others any “professional service” or “professional creative work” requiring engineering education, training and experience and special knowledge of mathematics, physics and engineering sciences. An individual performs “a professional service” or “professional creative work” in the practice of professional engineering if he:

  • Represents himself to be a professional engineer by sign, advertisement, letterhead, card, verbal claim or any other manner;
  • Quotes a fee for a professional engineering service;
  • Executes a contract or agreement for a professional engineering service;
  • Teaches upper division engineering design subjects as a professional engineer at a college or university;
  • Performs research investigations as a professional engineer;
  • Testifies as an expert in professional engineering; or
  • Holds himself out as able to perform or does perform, as a professional engineer, any similar service defined by board rule as the practice of professional engineering.
True
  False
4. “Practice of professional land surveying” means performing for others or offering to perform for others any “professional service” or “professional creative work” requiring land surveying education. An individual performs “a professional service” or “professional creative work” in the practice of land surveying if he:

  • As a professional land surveyor, makes geometric measurements and gathers related information pertaining to the physical or legal features of the earth, improvements on the earth and the space above, on or below the earth;
  • Teaches, as a professional land surveyor, upper division university level land surveying design subjects;
  • Performs professional land surveying research as a professional land surveyor;
  • As a professional land surveyor, creates work product relating to land surveying such as graphics, data, maps, plans, reports and descriptions;
  • Represents himself to be a professional land surveyor by sign, advertisement, letterhead, card, verbal claim or any other way;
  • Testifies as an expert in professional land surveying; or
  • Holds himself out as able to perform or does perform, as a professional land surveyor, any similar service defined by board rule as professional land surveying.
True
False
5. (ix) “Professional engineer” means an individual who, by reason of intensive preparation in the use of mathematics, physics and engineering sciences including the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, is qualified to practice professional engineering and is licensed under this act;
True
False
6. (x) “Professional land surveyor” means an individual who by reason of specialized knowledge in the technique of measuring land, mathematics, physical and applied sciences, and legal requirements of surveying real property, is qualified to practice professional land surveying and is licensed under this act;
True
False
7. (xi) “Responsible charge” means
Whoever is responsible
the exercise of direct control or the personal supervision of engineering work by a professional engineer or surveying work by a professional land surveyor;
8. Whenever the professional seal is applied, the licensee’s signature and the date
Is optional
shall also be included.
9. The professional seal, signature and date shall be placed on all final designs, specifications, maps, land surveys, reports, plats, drawings and plans filed or recorded pursuant to W.S. 33-29-801.
True
False
10. The application of a professional seal shall constitute certification that:
(i) The work was done by the professional licensee or under his responsible charge; and
(ii) The licensee is competent in the subject matter.
True
False
11. A licensee can allow the use of his seal by another
True
False
12. An individual who is not licensed shall not use the seal of a licensee.
True
False
13. Drawings, plans, specifications and estimates for public works of the state or a political subdivision of the state involving professional engineering shall be prepared by or under the personal direction of a professional engineer. The construction of the engineering works shall be executed under the direct supervision of a professional engineer.
True
False
14. Surveys or maps for public works of the state or a political subdivision of the state shall be prepared by or under the personal direction of a professional land surveyor. The surveying work shall be executed under the direct supervision of a professional land surveyor.
True
False
15. Any licensee renewing a license is required to have completed a total of ___ continuing education CPC hours, every two years, for each renewal period.
30
15