Certification as a Cost Engineer (CCE) or as a Cost Consultant (CCC) is offered to qualified applicants who successfully achieve certain examination and technical paper requirements and who have accumulated experience credits in a cost engineering field such as Cost Estimating, Cost Control, Business Planning or Management Sciences. The Certified Cost Technician (CCT) designation is available for those who have not yet achieved the minimum experience requirement to sit for the full certification examination, but who have passed a portion of the exam. Specialty certifications in planning and scheduling, Planning and Scheduling Professional, PSP; Earned Value Professional, EVP; Certified Forensic Claims Consultant, CFCC; and Certified Estimating Professional, CEP, are also available.  Other certification programs are currently being developed.

Certification programs at AACE International are accredited by the Council of Engineering and Scientific Specialty Boards (CESB) and the International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC).

Objectives

• To raise the professional standards and improve the practice of cost engineering.
  
  
• To identify for employers, clients and the public, persons with broad knowledge of and capability to professionally apply the principles of cost engineering.
  
  
•  To establish a continuing program whose goal is the improvement of individual cost engineering skills and professional development.
  
  
•  To clarify the body of knowledge and standards of conduct of the practice of cost engineering.

Certification in cost consulting is becoming more prevalent in our industry. More frequently are certified cost consultants required on Request for Proposals from both the public sector and the private sector. Obtaining your certification will enhance your own professional standing in our industry, as well as that of the companies you represent. If you are interested in certification please contact our certification director Walter Jones CCC PSP at e-mail wjones1018@gmail.com  or go to www.aacei.org/educ/cert/.