An Illinois professional engineer stamp for your licensed work
Your Illinois professional engineer stamp pairs the Trodat 4642 self-inking housing with a seal personalized for your individual license. The order asks for your licensed name and professional engineer license number. Choose the ink and optional supplies for this particular stamp, then review the details before ordering. The photographs show the housing; your personalized seal is on its stamp face.
Illinois uses the seal to identify the individual engineer responsible for professional documents. Section 1380.295 requires engineers to seal documents they prepared or that were prepared under their direct supervision and control. The seal works together with the engineer’s signature, the signing date and the license expiration date. These elements serve different purposes, so a stamp impression by itself does not complete the signing requirements.
This Illinois professional engineer stamp is for a licensed professional engineer. It carries that profession’s required wording and the identity entered for the order. Check those details against your license before submitting them. A business name does not replace the responsible individual’s licensed name in this seal, even when the engineer is working through a registered design firm.
What the Illinois professional engineer seal must show
The required seal information is your name, professional engineer license number and the words Licensed Professional Engineer of Illinois. The official suggested Illustration A places Licensed Professional Engineer around the upper edge, Of Illinois below, and the person’s name and number inside. Its example number begins with 062. Enter your own complete license number rather than copying the example digits from an illustration or preview.
Section 1380.295 refers to Illustration A as a suggested facsimile. Neither the reviewed section nor that illustration provides a numerical diameter. The product listing also does not state the finished personalized die diameter. The round housing photograph should therefore be read as a view of the product, not a measurement of the finished Illinois engineer seal. The requirements table identifies what the reviewed source actually specifies.
Place your written signature and the date of signing adjacent to the seal, together with the date your license expires. Illustration A shows these outside and below the circle. The expiration date is different from the date you sign an individual document: one describes your license, while the other records the signing event. Leave room beside the seal when preparing the document so all of this information can be included clearly.
An Illinois professional engineer stamp identifies a person, even when the document also identifies a business. A seal that substitutes the design firm’s name for the responsible engineer’s individual name is invalid under section 1380.295(a). Technical submissions issued by an engineering business must additionally show its corporate or assumed business name and design firm registration number. Those business identifiers supplement the individual seal requirements.
The Trodat 4642 mount for an Illinois PE stamp
The Trodat 4642 is a self-inking stamp with an internal pad. Its mechanism returns the stamp face to that pad between impressions, making it suitable for repeated stamping without a separate ink-pad step. The open base helps position an impression on the document, and the housing has nonslip pads. The internal pad can be refilled or replaced as part of maintaining the stamp.
Choose Black, Pink, Red, Purple, Blue, Orange, Green, Dry or Brown. Dry is the uninked selection. The reviewed Illinois seal section does not prescribe a particular ink color. The supplied ink is water based, and the product information specifically excludes glossy paper and Mylar because it will not dry on those surfaces. Consider the actual document surface before choosing this stamp for a job.
The main product-only photograph shows the upright housing. Additional views show the same housing pressed closed, its removable lid and the back. These views help identify the exact physical product; they are not separate stamp products or additional items automatically included with the order. Optional refill ink, replacement pads and a digital file are selected through their own controls below.
Ordering the PE stamp Illinois engineers use
Start with the individual name on your Illinois license, then enter the complete professional engineer license number. Review initials, spelling and digits in the text preview. The preview is a reading aid, with a caption explaining that the final layout follows the board format. Check the order details themselves as well as the preview, especially when ordering for someone else.
This Illinois professional engineer stamp offers an optional digital file containing JPG and PDF versions of the personalized seal. The additional supply choices are a 1 oz refill bottle, an extra replacement pad, and a pad-and-ink combination. Each option is an independent checkbox. The combination already includes a pad and a bottle, so selecting it together with the individual options requests additional supplies.
Choose the quantity for this one licensed identity and review the running total with your selected accessories. Another engineer’s name or license number needs a separate personalized order. Use special instructions for relevant production details, and keep the main name and number controls accurate. Instructions do not replace those fields or change the required professional wording.
The order form for this Illinois professional engineer stamp does not ask for an expiration date. Illinois places that information beside the seal when the engineer signs a document, and the source product form has no separate control for engraving it. The page explains the adjacent signing requirements so you can plan the document layout while ordering the correct name and number for the stamp.
Electronic seals and signatures in Illinois
Section 1380.295 permits a reproducible seal or facsimile that may be computer generated. It also allows the engineer, at their discretion, to provide an original handwritten signature, a scanned copy of a document bearing that original signature, or a computer-generated signature. The signature, signing date and license expiration date still belong adjacent to the seal.
The JPG and PDF add-on provides seal artwork for your Illinois professional engineer stamp. Those two files are not a signature and do not add the signing date to a particular submission. Apply the required information when preparing the professional document. The responsibility for the work and the individual identity requirements remain the same when the seal is applied electronically.
Illinois engineer stamp questions
- Where does my Illinois license expiration date go?
- Place it adjacent to the seal along with your signature and the date of signing. The official Illustration A shows these items below the circle. This exact stamp’s order form collects the licensed name and number; it has no expiration-date control.
- Can my firm’s name replace my own name in an Illinois PE seal?
- No. The seal must identify the individual licensed professional engineer responsible for the document. Engineering business submissions also need the applicable business name and design firm registration number, in addition to the individual seal information.
- Does Illinois specify a diameter in the reviewed seal rule?
- Section 1380.295 and its suggested Illustration A do not provide a numerical diameter. The exact product listing does not report the finished die measurement either. The requirements above distinguish source-specified information from measurements that have not been reported.
- Can I use a computer-generated Illinois engineer seal?
- Yes. The rule permits a computer-generated reproducible seal or facsimile. It also permits the listed handwritten, scanned-original and computer-generated signature methods. Include the signing date and license expiration date beside the seal on the document.
- What supplies can I add to this Illinois professional engineer stamp?
- The available extras are the JPG and PDF seal file, a 1 oz refill bottle, an extra replacement pad, and the pad-and-ink combination. They remain associated with this Trodat 4642 order and are selected individually in the form.