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California law dictates disciplinary proceedings by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists against a licensed engineer who has committed deceit, misrepresentation, negligence or a violation of contract.<ref>California Professional Engineers Act, Article 5</ref> The Professional Engineers of Ontario have a disciplinary committee that hears complaints of professional misconduct and incompetence.<ref>Ontario Professional Engineers Act, Section 28</ref>
A discipline committee may suspend a certificate of authorization (firm license) for an engineering corporation, an engineering license or issue a fine for violations of the local engineering legislation for professional misconduct, deceit, misrepresentation, negligence or violation of contract.
==Cost engineering==
The [[AACE International|AACE]], a professional body for cost engineers, explains why a technical engineering background is not required for their profession with the following statement:<ref>{{cite web|title=what is cost engineering? |url=http://www.aacei.org/membership/about/whatIsCE.shtml |access-date=2007-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071119144246/http://www.aacei.org/membership/about/whatIsCE.shtml |archive-date=2007-11-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
{{cquote|The skills and knowledge required to deal with costs (e.g., cost estimating, planning and scheduling, etc.) are quite different from those required to deal with the physical design dimension. From that difference, the field of cost engineering was born. Cost engineering practitioners work alongside of and are peers with engineers, software analysts, play producers, architects and other creative career fields to handle the cost dimension, but they do not necessarily have the same background. Whether they have technical, operations, finance and accounting or other backgrounds, cost engineering practitioners need to share a common understanding, based on "scientific principles and techniques," with the engineering or other creative career functions.}}
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