Recent content by nafta

Which states will not give me a comity licensure because they mandate that I can only take the PE Exam after 4 years? Below is the the link to NSPE's blog. NSPE recently put out an official position for allowing people to take the test early, provided they only get the license after the...

I do not have experience on this. However, I have looked at jobs in Saudi Arabia and job postings over there mention a PE as a requirement or big plus for the candidate. Plus, I have heard that NCEES, the authority which writes the exams, is starting to do work with other countries so the PE...

This guy's website is what helped me pass the exam. At 5$ a month it cannot be beat, and his book was just right too. I have had people tell me his review videos are better than School of PE. They are just right, in terms of difficulty, breadth of information, explanation, everything. I...

1. A Master's degree is not a must to find a job. If I were you, I would stick it out and get the MS now, not later. I know many advise to go work a while, but a while might turn into forever. It's easier to get the Structural MS now, even if you are tired. As a structural, just look at the...

I just took the PE Structural Exam. I have never studied as much for an exam in my life, and it drained me. The weird thing is that I really liked what I was studying. I liked the problems, I liked digging through the codes, marrying theory with practical problems...I miss it now. I work as...

Here's my thoughts; having only driven through Detroit a long time ago. I've seen many other cities and towns, some successful, some not. Urban planning is good, especially planning that forces people to live in the city by making suburban development difficult, as long as you do it smart...

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Guys, and girls, how many of you here have written down a "cheat sheet" for an exam in a class where you could have brought such a sheet to a test? When you actually write the stuff down yourself, you remember it. Then the notes become more of a psychological backup; something that you can...

I highly recommend engineeringvideos.net I asked one of the admins to post a review I wrote to him in the review thread. Long story short, $5 a month, the best self paced video explanations, of the best selection of critical problems you will see on the civil pe exam. Another engineer told me...

Thank you to the members of this site who helped me pass the PE. Just remember, the PE is a piece of paper. It's built on trust in a country, in a system, on integrity. If we are not careful, those three ingredients, country, system, and integrity can erode...and then our PE will become just...

That is true, and after venting, I came back to try and delete my CERM bash but you can't delete anything here. Thanks for the answer Naah. As for the CERM; it's a good reference book, but I feel like it could be much better considering how long it has been getting published for. I really...

The CERM, which I think is a bad reference for the PE, has q allowable set equal to q net/FS. The CERM defines q net as q ultimate - depth of footing * soil unit weight. The CERM's logic, which kind of makes sense, is that q net is the additional load the soil can take beyond the overburden...

Roger that, thank you for the information.

1. I can only get my hands on a full ASCE 7-10 Minimum Design Loads Manual and cannot get the ASCE 7-05 as required for the PE Structural afternoon exam. Will that negatively impact my PE Exam? Were there a lot of changes between 7-05 and 7-10 that actually impact the level of questions on...

What if you had to pick between the ASCE course and no course at all?