This online engineering PDH course presents the laws and regulations governing Professional Engineers in the State of South Carolina. This course is based on a compilation of Chapter 22 (“Engineers and Surveyors”) of Title 40 (“Professions and Occupations”) of the South Carolina Code of Laws and Chapter 49 (“Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation - South Carolina State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors”) of the South Carolina Code of State Regulations.

Learning Objectives

• Organization, administration, and procedures of the Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
• Requirements for becoming licensed initially Rules of professional conduct
• Requirements for continuing professional
• competency: renewing licensing, continuing education, including the total number of professional development hours, rules for documenting continuing education, and the relation between academic course work and PDHs
• Procedure for filing a complaint involving a professional engineer
• Procedure for processing, investigating, and resolving a complaint made to the board
• Penalties for infractions of board regulations