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Description: LEIDOS has an immediate opening for an Electrical Designer reporting to Leidos Engineering Solutions group. The successful candidate will develop designs for power and lighting systems. The candidate needs to be capable of developing basic layouts, one-line diagrams...

When I sat for my PE in April I asked the proctor for extra pencils and she gave me like 10 of them. It was fantastic! I plant to put a couple in my frame. One problem, the Illinois certificate is 5x6.75"

I can't make it to a Vegas event. My boss would let me attend if it was almost anywhere else.

Just to clarify since I can't edit (boo!): I had many references other than what I listed. There are a lot of posts about this though...

I passed the April 2012 exam in Illinois first try. Sample exams are not allowed during the exam in Illinois. I used a TI36X pro that was intuitive and powerful. I used the NEC 2011 Wildi's book Grainger's book Eaton's consulting application guide (free from the website) helped me...

Illinois PE results on CTS. PASS! boo yeah!

I felt like i just nailed at least 60 of the questions and I know for sure that I missed 2-3. Unless my estimations were wildly off then I should be okay. This was my first time taking the exam and I studying like crazy for three weeks and passively for about 4. I was hoping for more short...

*typed notes in the test* (an edit feature would be nice)

i have had many folks saying "good luck" when they hear that i have the exam tomorrow. my favorite response is "luck favors the prepared" a modification of "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." by Louis Pasteur.

Because my exam location is 2 1/2 hours away I have a hotel set up and I'm heading there tonight. No kids, no tv, no crazy distractions. Any thoughts on final prep time? Because I'm in Illinois I cant have typed notes in the class, so my current plan is to go through all the prep exams and...

It will actually be a good thing to do on the eve of the exam, just calmly reading through every practice exam and write down short notes and equations for each type of questions. I'm putting them in my NEC handbook in the from and the back

I assigned polarity in the classical/conventional method. for a proper voltage loop the equation would be 0 = -Vab + IaA(ZL) + VAB - IbB (ZL)

I'm okay with higher standards to a point. But this language is first vague and second pointless. All I am going to do i write everything I want into the notes pages of the books that I bring in the exam.

I asked Illinois Department of Professional Registration, the conversation is below: Me: I am taking the Electrical PE exam and I am confused about the language regarding the materials allowed during the test. I have many sheets that have typed equations that I am planning on bringing in a...