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220Salem,Oregon 97301503.362.2666Fax 503.362.5454osbeels.info@oregon.govwww.oregon.gov/osbeels  \nJanuary 8,2019  \nArt Noxon,PE,Team Liaison  \nAcoustic Engineering Examination Team-Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineeringand Land Surveying3690 County Farm Rd.Eugene,OR 97408  \nDear Mr.Noxon,  \nYou and Mr.Kerrie Standlee,PE,have both contacted the Board recently,expressing concern over the suspendedstatus of the Oregon-specific Acoustic Engineering Examination and over the future of acoustic engineering.Youhave also notified us of the work you have undertaken to collaborate with the Institute of Noise Control Engineering-U.S.A.(INCE),promoting and assisting INCE in the creation and future offering an acoustic,professionalengineering examination in Oregon.To begin,let me thank you on behalf of the Board for your continuingcommitment to the acoustic engineering examination.We appreciate your dedication.  \nThen,although we value your passion,please understand that your work with INCE is not being done at the requestof,or with the permission of,the Board.Nor is it being done on the Board's behalf,or the Board's AcousticEngineering Examination Team's behalf.We believe it is important to clarify that any work or communication youare conducting with INCE is being done by you personally,as individual professionals in the field.  \nThat being said,because we understand and respect your interest in the status of professional acoustic engineering inOregon,we want to address three important issues with you directly.We have heard statements from you and Mr.Standlee in our public meetings,which suggest that both the exam team members,and the general Oregon acousticengineering community,may have missed the various task force and board meetings where we have explained:(1)our unwillingness to recognize the INCE Board Certification Examination as a qualifying PE exam in Oregon;(2)our concerns with the Oregon-specific Acoustic Engineering exam,generally;and,(3)our perspective on the statusof acoustic engineering in Oregon,irrespective of whether the Oregon-specific acoustic exam is reinstituted.Pleaseallow us to provide those explanations here.  \n# (I)INCE Board Certification Examination.\n\nAs you know,INCE is a non-profit member of the society of the International Institute of Noise ControlEngineering(I-INCE),“an international consortium of organizations with interests in acoustics and noise control.”We decline to recognize the INCE exam for several reasons,but willdetail the primary two:exam integrity andexam security.We,as a board,are solely responsible for the defensibility of any Oregon-specific PE exams werecognize.The two primary bases for successful exam challenges-both nationally and internationally-are flaws inthe examination's integrity(does it test without bias or discrimination,is it sufficiently challenging,and does it testaccurately for its purpose?)or flaws in the examination's security(are the questions and answer keys confidentialand secure?).An exam that is found to lack integrity or security can see its results overturned for certain candidates,can be invalidated wholesale,can be uscd as a basis for unsuccessful candidates from other examinations (here,other PE examinations)to contest their own failures to pass national exams when the national exams were moredifficult than the Oregon-specific exams,and can lead to the Board being responsible for financial damages (See,  \ne.g.,Gulino v.Board of Education,1:96-cv-08414,Dist.Ct,SD New York(2012),holding teacher certifcationexamination was discriminatory and failed to accurately test for teacher competence,damages allowed for class-action plaintiffs who took the examination as far back as 1995).  \nThe INCE exam has not established integrity for professional engineering;in fact,it appears to affirmatively lackthe quality of accurately testing for professional competence as an 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