Recent content by jragg

I relied almost completely on the MERM. It's pretty good as a fluids and thermo book, but it's lacking a bit in the heat transfer area. If you've got a heat transfer book from college, I'd bring it along. The practice exam (NCEES exam) that I took did have one question that didn't have an...

It's possible for Chapter 19 problems to be on the PE. I was saying that I thought Lindeburg's practice problems for Chapter 19 were probably not representative of what may be on the exam. Chapter 30 (Nuclear) problems are much the same. The info in the MERM is good, but the problems aren't...

I seem to remember skipping those problems. There were a number of problems that I looked at while studying and said "If this crap comes up on the test, I'll take the hit." Of course I've always been one of the people that puts in 80% of the effort for 95% of the results. I'm not willing to...

I used the TI-30XIIS since it was given to me. PE-April 2009 Passed. I've used the Casio before. If you're not down with RPN, get the Casio. It's a significantly higher quality calculator than the TI. It has more functions, and the build quality is much better. The small TI calculators...

Passed the PE. Kansas, Mechanical, Thermal/Fluids. I know I don't have enough posts for the banner, but I felt I needed to share anyways. Time for a drink! :winko: :leghump: :rtft:

I just got my results too. Passed Mechanical - Thermal Fluids. You should see them in the mail today. Good luck everyone. Edit: I don't show up online either.

Cross your fingers that results show up on Saturday. I'll be ready to drink (assuming things go well).

I emailed the board asking if they had received results from ELSES and when they planned to be mailing results to us (if they had results from ELSES). I got the standard boiler plate response (with wonky copy/paste formatting and everything).

It's updated, but they don't have new PE's on there yet. Either that or both myself and a friend of mine didn't pass. I've been checking daily (even though I think they only update on Fridays). I've got a nice expensive 22 oz. bottle of beer that I'm going to crack open when/if I get the good...

I've got the 12th edition. I remember trying to use those equations for calculating the Pr number for liquid sodium (again, on the sample exam) and not coming up with the right answer. It certainly could have been user error, but the solution referenced another book as well. Anyways, I...

I'd say that the afternoon section kind of hit on my strong areas (Thermal/Fluids). I walked away from the afternoon session significantly earlier than I thought I would. I didn't finish the sample exams early at all, but I finished the actual test with about an hour to go (and then I did some...

You guys took a lot of books... Those friction/gpm/pipe size tables are in the MERM. Check Appendix 17.C. I wouldn't buy another book for them. I took the Fluids/Thermo section, and I only took the MERM and an old heat transfer book. The only reason I even took the heat transfer book is...

I finished up the morning session in about the same amount of time that it took me to take the 2008 NCEES practice exam, and I feel pretty comfortable with that section. There were only a couple that I didn't feel "sure" of (which really doesn't mean too much since I usually miss ones that I...

I used a TI-30XIIS for the exam, but only because it was given to me and I didn't think the FX-115 was allowed. I've used the Casio FX-115 in the past, and it is a far superior calculator. The buttons are more responsive, and it has a much better "feel" than the TI-30X did. You really have to...

Thanks for the response. Good luck this time around. I'm hoping for a very small number of combustion/stoichiometry problems. Those things are like black magic to me.