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Basic requirements for all professional Check with your school placement office to learn — 
engineering positions: Candidates must show when a Forest Service representative will 
successful completion of A or B below: visit your campus. Sign up for an interview 
A. A full 4-year or longer professional appointment. If your school has not scheduled 
engineering curriculum, accredited by the a visit for our representatives, you may 5% 
Engineers’ Council for Professional still apply by completing the SF-171, Personal _ 
Development, leading to a Bachelor’s orhigher Qualification Statement, and mailing Be 
degree; or other professional engineering it to the Washington, D.C., or Regional Office 
curriculum in an accredited college or of your preference. It is necessary in any case 
university (accredited by a regional accrediting for us to have your application certified by the 
association or by the State University or State Civil Service Commission for that specific 
Department of Education of the State area. As our Regional Office representatives 
in which the school is located) substantially work daily with the Commission, it will not be 
equivalent thereto in type, scope, content, necessary for you to look up the proper 
and quality; or Commission Office. We will do it for you. 
B. A total of not less than 4 years of 
college-level education, training, and/or 
technical experience of such nature and extent 
that, taken in conjunction with any private 
study, they furnished (1) a thorough knowledge 
of the physical and mathematical sciences 
underlying professional engineering and 
(2) a good understanding, both theoretical and 
practical, of the engineering sciences and 
techniques and their application to one 
of the branches of engineering, substantially 
equivalent to that furnished by a full 4-year 
or longer professional engineering curriculum, 
accredited by the Engineers’ Council for 
Professional Development. In addition, 
fulfillment of one of the following requirements: 
(1) Written test; (2) specified academic courses; 
(3) professional stature; (4) curriculum in 
closely-related fields. 
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