Minnesota Board of AELSLAGID

The report from the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) and the Chief ALJ, is now available. The Board will review the recommendations and follow the administrative rule procedures for adopting the final language.

On June 27, Governor Walz announced his appointments to the Board. Terms began July 2, 2019, and will expire January 2, 2023, for:

• Daniel Baar, Land Surveyor
  Cambridge, MN (Reappointment)
• Scott Holm, Public Member
  Biwabik, MN
• Jami Neiber, Public Member
  Maple Grove, MN
• Keith Rapp, Professional Geologist
  Woodbury, MN (Reappointment)
• Tari Rayala, Architect
  Duluth, MN
• Melisa Rodriguez, Professional Engineer
  Minneapolis, MN

The Board gratefully acknowledges the service of these individuals who are stepping off the Board: William Kuretsky, Public Member; Jody Rooney, Public Member; Terry Groshong, Architect and a former Board Vice Chair; Dennis Martenson, Professional Engineer and a former Board Chair.

Those wanting to know whether they have any carryover continuing education (CE) hours from 2018 (good towards meeting 2020 CE renewal requirements) on record with the Board can view the list in the Continuing Education section of the website. If you aren't on the list; you have no recorded carryover. Please see the page for more information.

A reminder: Renewals do not open until spring 2020. Sign up for the Board's email communications to receive first notice.

Board Elects New Executive Committee

As Board elections took place at the May Board meeting to choose new officers for the Executive Committee. The following were elected:

• Chair: Meg Parsons, AR
• Vice Chair: Paul Vogel, LS
• Secretary: Dave Blume, PE
• Treasurer: Keith Rapp, PG

Nirmal Jain, PE, will serve as Immediate Past Chair.

Congratulations on your election.

Rules Adopted, Effective May 13, 2019

ARE and FE Direct Registration Option Now Available

Rule package R-4547, which allows applicants for the Architect Registration Examination (ARE) and the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination to apply directly to their respective national councils to take the examination, was published in the State Register on May 6, 2019. It became effective May 13, 2019.

Direct registration is now available to ARE exam applicants and to FE applicants who meet the education requirements. Please follow the links below to the appropriate profession/exam page for details.

The updated and official version of the Board's rules can found on the Board's "Statutes and Rules" page.

As the Board did not receive 25 or more requests for a hearing on Rule Package R‑04449, the hearing previously scheduled for June 25, 2019, has been canceled. The Board will continue the rule adoption process.

For more on this rule package and the rulemaking process, see the Board's rulemaking page.

At the recent Regional Summit of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), Meg Parsons, Architect and Vice Chair of the Minnesota Board, was elected to the position of Vice Chair for NCARB’s Region 4. Her one-year term begins in July.

“I am very excited,” said Parsons, “to work on key issues related to the health, safety, and welfare of the public by serving on the NCARB Region 4 leadership team.”

Prior to her election, Parsons served on various NCARB committees, most recently the Interior Architecture Work Group. In the coming year she will also serve on the NCARB Diversity Collaborative that was formed at the Regional Summit.

On the Minnesota Board, in addition to her position as Board Vice Chair, Parson is also Chair of the ALACID (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Certified Interior Design) Section.

The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) has announced that Board member and Complaint Committee Chair Keith Rapp, PG, is being honored with an AIPG Section Leadership Award at the AIPG Annual Meeting to be held in September.

The AIPG is the professional society for geologists in the United States. The AIPG Section Leadership Award is to recognize one or more of the members who have demonstrated a long-term commitment and been long-term contributors to AIPG at the section level. The work of these section-level leaders is not always known on the nation level. Conferring this award at the national meeting elevates their recognition.

Apply to Serve as a Public or Licensed Member of the Board

Public (non-licensee/unaffiliated with the professions) members serve a vital role in public protection through their service on professional Boards. The AELSLAGID Board has vacancies for two such members.  Apply through the Secretary of State website. The Governor makes the appointments.

Certain Professional (licensed/certified) Member seats are also open to applications for 2019-2023.

The Board is considering rule amendments that affect the professional engineering experience and geoscience education and experience requirements and that also remove obsolete language.

See the rulemaking page for full details on the package and how to comment.

Online Renewal Services have closed. Use the PDF paper form to renew. Payment must be by check or money order and must include the current $60 late fee.

NOTE: There is no grace period with license/certificate expiration. If you need to practice/hold out in Minnesota, you need to renew.

Each year, the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES), of which the Board is a member, names Engineering Education Award winners. This October, Board Chair Nirmal Jain, PE, and Immediate Past Chair Dennis Martensen, PE, were please to present on behalf of NCEES an award to the Department of Civil, Environment, and Geo-Engineering (CEGE) at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

The students and their university advisors and professional mentors won for their project, a multistage drip irrigation system. The group designed and installed the system for the 500-person community of Filakit Geregera, Ethiopia. Prior to the building of the irrigation system, multiple farm fields went uncultivated due to the inability to supply them with water during the dry season.

Presentation photos are courtesy of Merry Rendahl, Ph.D., Teaching Specialist and Publications Editor for CEGE.

The student design team from the UMN-TC CEGE Department

Left-right: Matt Simcik, UMN-TC Project Advisor; Dennis Martenson, Immediate Past Chair, Board; Joseph Labuz, UMN-TC CEGE Dept. Head; Nirmal Jain, Board Chair; Paul Capel, UMN-TC Project Advisor

Working model of the award-winning irrigation project

More About the Project

The rule changes to MN Rule 1800 contained in Rule Package R-04374 were published in the State Register on August 6 and became effective on August 13, 2018.

The Governor recently made his appointments to the Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design. Terms are effective July 23, 2018, and expire January 3, 2022, with the exception of the vacated land surveyor seat, which has a term ending January 7, 2019.

REAPPOINTED TO THE BOARD:
Nirmal Jain, PE – Maple Grove

NEW TO THE BOARD:
Daniel Baar, LS – Cambridge

 

NEW TO THE BOARD:
Denise Kazmierczak, PE – Woodbury

NEW TO THE BOARD:
Scott Robinson, LA – St. Paul

Congratulations and welcome.

New examination specifications for the Principles and Practice of Surveying go into effect with the January 2019 administration.

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