Recent content by brosenbe

Just called NY State. The representative said that we should have the results "in less than a week". So, I guess it's sometime this week, then.

My girlfriend called both NCEES and NY State yesterday. NCEES said it was in the hands of NY State, and that when NY was done validating, they would submit and it would post (i.e. it's out of NCEES' hands for good). Then, the NY State rep claimed she didn't know anything about it (possibly...

Still waiting in New York...anyone hear anything from the Office of Professions (since the last update)?

SE Results by State I figure I'll start this. Apologies if this isn't the right place to do it, but since it's only for SE tests, I thought this might belong here (as opposed to the general PE Results forum). Add states as they release their results. These are the ones I know of... Texas -...

I posted my review of the Kaplan review course, which I took before the April SE. Take a look at discussion titled "SE Review Course". Last posting was on March 15, 2011.

The sequence is explained as so: Demolition occurs (which loads the existing GLB with the purlin loads), then the new truss is installed (so the purlin loads do not go into the new truss because the load is already on the GLB), then the new equipment is installed (so the truss carries the new 20...

No problem. Gotta love the strict adherence to the code...makes this process so much more fun. (FYI, it's also in IBC 2006 Table 1604.5)

The problem says that it is a "minor storage facility", which is specifically listed in Occupancy Category I in ASCE 7-05 (Table 1-1). (Hopefully I'm looking at the same problem book...)

Hi all. In the solution to problem 603 of the NCEES sample questions, part a (Page 100), the answer takes a tributary width of the one-way slab to determine the load on the beam. Then, it uses the ACI coefficients to determine the shears and moments in the beam (as requested in the problem)...

Tim Mays was one of the presenters for the Kaplan course (for a number of seminars) and he was excellent!

Also, I looked into the ASCE course as well. The format is good, and they include a bridge module, which the Kaplan course does not. (A bridge module would be helpful for a buildings person like me). However, they leave seismic design until the week before the test, which I wasn't comfortable...

Glad I could help. Yep, I completely understand how helpful it would be to say, "Yep, do it!" or "No, stay away!". Because it is expensive ($749 per module or $1200 for both), it's a judgment call. I felt I'd rather make the most of my chances this time around and do all I could to pass on...

Hi. First time poster, so apologies if this isn't the right format. I took the Kaplan Vertical Forces course this past weekend (12 hours, spread over two days). As you probably know, it's broken down into different lessons by subject matter. The quality varied pretty sharply between the...