Section 13.02. Definitions.

  As used in this chapter:

(1)  "Biennium" means a 2-year period beginning August 1 of each even-numbered year.

(2)  "College semester hour" means receiving credit for completing a regularly offered course in a school or college of engineering accredited by the EAC/ABET that has testing with a passing grade required and has provisions for additional out-of-class study requirements. Credit for college approved courses will be based upon course credit established by the college. One "college semester hour" equals 45 PDHs. Monitoring or auditing courses that do not require regular testing with a passing grade will only count the actual class contact hours.

(3)  "College quarter hour" means receiving credit for completing a regularly offered course in a school or college of engineering accredited by the EAC/ABET that has testing with a passing grade required and has provisions for additional out-of-class study requirements. Credit for college approved courses will be based upon course credit established by the college. One "college quarter hour" equals 30 PDHs. Monitoring or auditing courses that do not require regular testing with a passing grade will only count the actual class contact hours.

(4)  "Continuing education" means the planned, professional development activities designed to contribute to the advancement, extension and enhancement of the professional skills and scientific knowledge of the registrant in the practice of professional engineering. Regular duties are not considered qualifying activities.

(5)  "Continuing education unit" or "CEU" means a unit of credit customarily used for continuing education courses. One "continuing education unit" equals 10 PDHs.

(6)  "Course" or "activity" means any qualifying "course" or "activity" with a clear purpose and objective that will maintain, improve, or expand the skills and knowledge relevant to the registrant's practice of professional engineering.

(7)  "EAC/ABET" means the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

(8)  "Professional development hour" or "PDH" means a period of 50 minutes of actual instruction or participation spent by the registrant in actual attendance or completion of an approved educational activity. "PDHs" should be rounded down to the nearest half hour and reported in increments of half hour with no activity of under a half hour being acceptable as qualifying for "PDH" credit. "PDHs" shall not exceed the actual contact clock hours of actual attendance.

CR 11-014 : cr. Register December 2011 No. 672 , eff. 1-1-12.