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Here is the story: Last year 6/26/2015 I moved from Texas to PA.  I did not look for work as I was dealing with buying a house and the good stuff that comes with moving to another state.  After several months dealing with the move, I started the process to become a US Citizen and enrolled to...

my friend was supposed to take a late flight at 7.40 pm to come to Houston Thursday night. His plan was to arrive and go to his hotel room and rest for the rest of the night. There was a thunderstorm Thursday night and his flight was delayed. The plane left at 1.20 am Friday morning. checked in...

Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium. Traffic is always horrible around the area. Planning to leave early and beat the morning traffic.

It's killing mine too, but I am planning on reworking the ncees next week to bring it back up.

Which copy of the Steam tables of Keenan and Keyes do you guys recommend?? Will any copy work? I don't want to spend time interpolating for the values. thanks in advance.

Hope this helps while preparing for the FE. I bought the FE/EIT sample examination by lindeburg and started working the problems using a copy of the supplied reference manual. The key is to learn how to use the supplied reference while solving the problems. I remember taking the exam and...

I don't know if you still need an answer but here it goes. I think it should be for every volume of O2 you need 3.773 volumes of N2. From composition of air: O2 is 20.95 and N2 78.09. 78.09/20.95=3.727 If you look at the equation given: you have 13.5 O2 and 50.8 N2. 50.8/13.5=3.76 which is...

A lot of people recommend working out the practice problems several times. I just started my first round and is taking more than what I had expected. However I am trying to understand the process and formulas used as I work them out. Hope this helps. Good luck.

Ill start this week working the NCEES practice problems. Still reading the merm and trying its practice problems. Ill see how it goes. My plan for the next two months is to start working as many problems as I can.

I started studying three weeks ago. Gradually increasing the amount of time I spend studying, it takes time to get into the habit of studying again. I have a lot of studying to do but hopefully I'll get there. Good luck to all.

Congratulations and good luck.

I copy and pasted the following post from another member in another topic; I think it is also appropriate to be in this section and hopefully are words of encouragement for some of us that still are not PEs.: thebettersmith Project Engineer Senior Member 69 posts Discipline:Water Resources...

Thanks for sharing your strategy and congratulations on passing the exam.

I am still waiting for mine in Texas. Everything has been received.

Congratulations to all of you! Well deserved.