Recent content by SteveYem

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It remains to be seen for me. I got my license in April 2012, and I work for a small (but growing) engineering firm which is in the midst of having a few very good years, and the order backlog is strong. And just last week, there was a buy-out in which the two guys at the top are now only...

Born: January 1982 FE: April 2004 BSME: August 2004 (work work work work) PE: Apri 2012 So that's 7.5 years out of college for me.

I took the FE exam a little over 8 years ago (during my final semester at college) so my memory of it is a little foggy. However, in my best recollection the FE was easier than the PE. I am basing this solely on the fact that I prepared for approx. 1 hour for the FE exam, and spent approx. 200...

Off-topic (but so I don't have to create a new thread): I got licensed June 2012 and my expiration date is September 2013. Do I need to get all 24 continuing education credits before September 2013? Or do I prorate the credits by the amount of time I have been licensed (i.e. ~1.5 years...

Not to split hairs, but in PA (and maybe some other states), the PE license number is issued on the same date that the passing test score is reported by NCEES, i.e. on the day you receive your notification from NCEES you can search for your license on the Dept. of State website and it will...

Ain't that the truth! As far as displaying my certificate and license, I'm somewhere in the middle on the "pride" spectrum. I tore out the wallet card, signed it and stuck it in my wallet (unlaminated), then signed my license and did a high-res color scan and emailed it to myself at work. The...

Yep I just passed the April 2012 test. I also thought the tan certificate with the gold emblem was the formal license document (and it may be), but they will also send you a document similar to a birth certificate, printed on that "official" looking paper that fades from blue to pink in the...

Congrats fellow new PE! Give it another day or two and you should be receiving your formal license document and wallet license card.

I am failing to understand why a given State would want to maintain a particular passing rate for a particular discipline. Are the states in competition with one another? Is there some federal funding that a state can receive if its passing rates are at a certain level? I've heard of...

I agree. I took a review course offered at the local Penn State campus for the Mechanical exam in PA. The instructors spent most of the class time going through NCEES practice exams from 2001, including a sample morning "breadth" section, as well as sample afternoon "depth" sections in the...

How were you able to search the list for new PE's specifically? (BTW I passed and my info appears in the database with my license listed as "active", and in fact the activation date is the same as the date of results notification from NCEES). This may be misinformation so take it with a salt...

erikwo and mikecart1 just made my Monday! I was going to wait the ~90 days that NCEES said I would have to until receiving my license from the State, but I did the license lookup and found my license status to be "active". Kind of surreal to see my own license number. Now, is it "SteveYem...

I passed the April 2012 PA PE (Mechanical) exam. Got my results on June 12th. Now the waiting game for my license starts. Man they love to make us wait for this stuff - 8 weeks for test results, 12 weeks for the actual license. Oh well...I guess that's 12 more weeks of doing work at the...

That was my guy feeling. Thanks for the confirmation.