Qualifications
If you have been licensed as a professional engineer for a minimum of 15 years and have no record of disciplinary action, you may qualify for Nebraska licensure by experience.
Otherwise, to be eligible for licensure by comity in Nebraska, you must meet these education, examination, and experience requirements:
Education
- Either 1) a graduate of an EAC/ABET-accredited program, 2) a graduate of a Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB)-accredited program, or 3) meet the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying’s (NCEES) Engineering Education Standard.
- To determine if your program is EAC/ABET or CEAB-accredited, search the respective database of accredited programs.
- If your program is not accredited by either of these accrediting entities, you must have your education evaluated by NCEES Credentials Evaluations to determine if it meets the NCEES Engineering Education Standard. NCEES' evaluation report must be submitted directly to the Board once complete, and any identified deficiencies must be corrected or removed. For more guidance on how to remove identified deficiencies, refer to Rule 2.2.4.
- Note: If you hold a bachelor’s degree in engineering technology that is accredited by ABET’s Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC/ABET), such degrees do not meet Nebraska’s requirement for licensure. It has been the Board's experience that these degrees typically do not meet the NCEES Engineering Education Standard due to a deficiency in engineering sciences and design. In addition, NCEES will conduct evaluations when the applicant has either a bachelor’s degree in engineering from a non-U.S. based program, OR a non-EAC/ABET-accredited degree in engineering, engineering technology, related science, or mathematics only when coupled with a master’s degree or doctorate in engineering.
Examination
- Passed both the NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) and Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exams;
Experience
- Has four years of progressive engineering experience after graduation and gained prior to applying to the Nebraska Board.
Application Process
It is the applicant’s responsibility to submit all required applications, documents, and fees to the Board.
- Complete and submit the Engineer License Application either online or by paper along with the applicable filing fee;
- Have verification of your exam(s) passage, including the discipline of your PE Exam, and your current license sent directly to the Nebraska board from the issuing jurisdiction(s). The license verification may be submitted electronically. If not, a paper verification can be found here;
- If the licensing jurisdiction does not license by discipline or have a record of the PE exam discipline, verification of discipline of practice may be provided by the Affidavit of Specific Discipline Form of an individual with knowledge of the applicant’s discipline of practice.
- The affidavit is not accepted for those seeking licensure as a Professional Structural Engineer. An applicant must have either taken sixteen hours of structural exams or have been licensed as a Professional Structural Engineer (not just a Professional Engineer practicing in the structural discipline) for at least 15 years in another jurisdiction in order to qualify for licensure as a Professional Structural Engineer in Nebraska.
- Have official verification of graduation from an EAC/ABET- or CEAB-accredited engineering program sent directly to the Nebraska board from the granting institution. If you do not hold a degree from an acceptable accredited program, have NCEES Credentials Evaluation send a copy of its report directly to the Nebraska Board.
- Upon receipt of your application, an exam on The Nebraska Engineers and Architects Regulation Act and Board’s Rules and Regulations will be sent to you. This must be sent back to the Board and successfully passed prior to your license being issued.
Any information requested on the application with respect to education, experience, or references may be provided by submitting an NCEES Council Record.
Board Review and Approval
Once all the above has been received, your application will be reviewed. If you are designated as Model Law Engineer (MLE) on your NCEES Record, and there are no issues (i.e. disciplinary actions) that the Board must review, you may be issued a conditional license by Board staff pending formal Board approval. All other applications must go to the Board for its review and approval prior to the license being issued.
A conditional license may be withdrawn by the Board if it determines the applicant does not qualify for licensure for any reason. If this occurs, the conditional license expires at 11:59 pm on the date the licensee is notified of such Board action.
Discipline-Specific Licenses
In Nebraska, licenses are discipline-specific based on the PE exam discipline. However, licensees can practice in – and seal documents related to – any discipline of engineering in which the individual is competent through training, education, and experience. For example, a Professional Agricultural Engineer may practice mechanical engineering, and may lawfully seal mechanical engineering documents that they prepared with their Professional Agricultural Engineer seal.
Affidavit of Specific Discipline
Professional Engineer License Application (Online)
Professional Engineer License Comity Application
If you have any questions about comity licensure for engineers, please contact us.