New PE Exam Specifications in April 2018

I just read this on the MN Board website:


New PE Exam Specifications Starting in April 2018


NCEES has announced several specification and other changes to exams beginning with the April 2018 administration. The following exams are affected:

• Architectural Engineering
  
• all 3 Electrical and Computer exams; also the “Electrical and Electronics” exam will be renamed “Electronics, Controls, and Communications”
  
• Environmental; also it will be reduced from 100 to 80 questions
  
• Structural 16-hour; also it will have new design standards
  

Civil will have revised design standards for the Construction and Structural modules.

I'm not sure what this means for construction exam but anytime they change the specifications, I imagine that new references are required which mean more money to spend on more material that you don't already have.

Interesting! This seems like it should be in the About The PE Forum, though.

I wonder if the S.E. exam specs will be moving to ACI 318-14, IBC 2015, etc. come next April.