What is Professional Licensure?
Professional licensure is governmental regulation of professional practice. The purpose of licensure is to safeguard the public by setting minimum standards of professional performance when professional services are needed. Further, professional licensure raises the standards of the profession by limiting practice to those meeting objective standards through examinations. In engineering, Professional Engineers meet these standards. Non-licensed practitioners are limited by law in the scope of the work they are allowed to perform. Licensure laws vary from state to state and are exclusively under the control of the individual state legislature.
