Licensed Member – A Licensed Member shall be defined as a person holding a valid license or certificate of registration as a professional engineer, issued under the laws of any state, territory, possession, or district of the United States, or a province, or territory of Canada; or the equivalent under the laws of any country, or a retired engineer who obtained and retained a valid license or certificate while in active practice in the profession until retirement.

Member – A Member shall be defined as a person of high moral character who is:

1. A certified engineer-in-training (Engineering Intern), or the equivalent under the laws of any country, or
2. A graduate engineer – A graduate engineer is one who has graduated from an engineering curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or has graduated from an engineering curriculum which is accredited by ABET within six years after graduation; or has been awarded a graduate engineering degree from a college or university which has one or more undergraduate engineering curricula accredited by ABET. For a graduate of an engineering curriculum in a foreign country, the applicant shall possess educational background equivalent to that attained from an engineering curriculum accredited by ABET.

A Member shall advance to the Licensed Member grade as soon as eligible by licensure.

Student Member – A Student Member is a person defined as one who is enrolled in a ABET-accredited engineering program or an engineering or pre-engineering program that leads to engineering licensure. A full time graduate student in engineering may choose any grade for which eligible, including Student Member.

Sustaining Member – A Sustaining Membership in the New York State Society of Professional Engineers shall be available to any Corporation (public, private, municipal or non-profit), Professional Corporation, firm or individual doing business in the State of New York and employing members of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers or Professional Engineers eligible for membership in the New York State Society of Professional Engineers. Such Sustaining Members shall not be known as Members, but rather as Sustaining Members, and shall not be privileged to vote or hold office in the Society.