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engineering. Mr. Smith holds a 4-year degree in civil
engineering and a master’s degree in soil mechanics.
Technicians on petitioner’s staff were given a variety of
duties, including operating equipment, e.g., drilling, creation
of cylinders and other test samples, laboratory testing, and
field testing. The educational background of petitioner’s non-
engineering staff ranged from employees with a 2-year degree1 in
civil engineering to a few with high school diplomas. One
employee did not receive a high school diploma. All of
petitioner’s employees worked full-time during the years in
issue.
Petitioner’s geotechnical testing services consisted
primarily of physical tests of concrete and soil samples
conducted in either the field or laboratory. Petitioner provided
necessary equipment (e.g., drill rigs), and laboratory
facilities, including a “moist curing room” where concrete
specimens were cured until the required “specification date”.
Operation of equipment out in the field or laboratory did not
require basic knowledge of mathematics or engineering principles
since it was not analytical in nature. Training of petitioner’s
technical employees, or technicians, occurred on the job.
1 A 2-year degree in civil engineering is not the equivalent
of an engineering degree required to perform professional
engineering services in Wisconsin. See Wis. Stat. sec. 443.04
(1999).
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