Civil Engineering Certification
Specialty Board Certification
CEC specialty board certification helps you stand out from your peers. It’s your next career step after earning your professional engineer license.
Become a board-certified engineer
Board certification for civil engineers is vital to elevating the level of professionalism needed to meet the challenges facing the nation’s infrastructure. Board certification benefits the public, owners of infrastructure, employers, and practicing civil engineers.
Founded by ASCE, Civil Engineering Certification is the only professional credential developed by civil engineers, for civil engineering. It recognizes civil engineers who have demonstrated advanced knowledge and skills in a specific specialty area, bringing more value to civil engineering stakeholders.
To be certified, you must meet the established qualification criteria for education, licensure, and experience, and pass the certification examination.
- Potential promotion and advancement opportunities.
- Better compensation as seen in recent salary surveys.
- Reduced professional liability insurance rates.
Board certifications
Take the next step in your career today and get board certified. Select your specialty area to learn more about board certification requirements.
Civil Engineering Certification Inc. (CEC) is expanding board certification to include additional specialties.
Board certification steps
Hire a board-certified engineer
Infrastructure challenges are increasingly complex, with new materials and technologies, a changing climate, and heightened public expectations. Including board-certified specialists on your team assures the most qualified and experienced engineering talent is working on these complex projects, delivering high-performing, future-ready infrastructure for your clients, stakeholders, and the public. Board-certified engineers can help reduce risk and improve project performance, and help you achieve project success.
- Vetted through a robust review process to confirm that they have attained advanced expertise and knowledge in a specialty beyond the P.E. license.
- Extensive experience contributes to an overall reduction in project risk, liability, and minimizes the risk of delays and cost overruns.
- A board-certified engineer’s work in key positions of a project team will improve project execution and ensure the overall success of complex infrastructure projects.
CESB Accreditation
Civil Engineering Certification Inc. (CEC) certifications are accredited by the Council of Engineering & Scientific Specialty Boards (CESB). The CEC is expanding board certification to include additional specialties.