The Members of the New Jersey State Board of Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors thank you for visiting our website.
In 2021, we are celebrating the Board's 100th Anniversary. For 100 years, the Board has been responsible for the practice, licensure and certification of engineers, land surveyors, engineers-in-training, land surveyors-in-training and businesses offering professional engineering and land surveying services in the State of New Jersey.
The Board's mission and goal is to safeguard life, health and property, and promote the public welfare. This is accomplished by the Board Members and the outstanding work by the Staff, Executive Director and the Board's designated Deputy Attorney General.
This quote, from the 1922 newspaper article found on this website, accurately describes the need for professional licensing that still exists today:
The need of regulation of engineering practice has always existed, as will be realized by the number of lives that daily depend upon the safe and proper design and construction, and the immense amount of money involved In engineering projects, would have no assurance of the safety of bridges, buildings, dams, tunnels, railways and numerous other engineering works, and investors would have no assurance of the economy of the design of such structures in which their funds are invested without a law providing for licensing the engineers who are responsible for the design and construction of these public works.
The passage of this licensing act was sponsored by reputable professional engineers, in order to safeguard the public, who as a general rule, are Inclined to accept every new bridge or other structure thrown open as being safe, without realizing the chances of fatal accidents occurring, due to lack of regulation and provision for the fixing of responsibility upon men competent to design and supervise construction. No one giving thought to the matter would engage a lawyer when not admitted to the bar; a dentist, physician or an architect who had not been licensed. There is as much reason to examine and license professional engineers and land surveyors as any of the above mentioned professions.
Over the years, hundreds of people have worked on and with the Board to help fulfill the Board's mission.
On behalf of the current Board, we recognize and thank everyone for the dedication and service.
The Board's official Website is found here: https://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/pels/Pages/default.aspx