Recent content by vdubEE

I studied five weeks before the test, about 2-4 hours during the week and 4-8 hours during the weekend. I got a little bored of studying about a week before the test and took a day off. The two days before the test were spent doing lite studying and review, getting all references ready to go...

I was always under the impression that if you are designing something for your company or use, then the drawings do not have to be stamped. However, if you are designing something for someone else to use as plans for design and construction then you have to stamp them. When coming out of...

I work at a utility as well and we mainly contract the large firms as well. Depending on the work, it is possible for some of the smaller local firms to get the work but normally it is folks like Burns and Mac, ECI, etc. However, I have a friend who still works as a Consulting Engineer and they...

First, I commend you if you can follow that schedule and not lose track. I am not sure how comfortable you are with the topics covered so you might require the extra study time. Personally, I would get bored about four weeks in, lose focus, and the test results would more than likely reflect...

I just got a 5% annual raise for merit and cost of living. Since I have 5 years of experience (2 previous job and 3 current job) and the PE now, I asked about getting my next progression promotion and raise instead of having to wait for 5 years experience at current company. If it all goes well...

vdubEE, passed PE, Oklahoma - Electrical

No. While I do have a very nice DSLR, my photography skills are more on the instantamatic level!!!

Wow that is an interesting setup for your company. When I worked as an EE for a consulting/design firm, there were lots of people that were PE's and all of them signed documents/drawings. All Department Heads, Project Managers and Senior Engineers had to be a PE and they typically signed their...

There are a few jobs (like consulting or design engineer) were having a PE will bring more money, higher positions, and better promotions while some jobs do not really care about the PE. Having a PE will never be a bad thing for you or your career. My current job does not really require having...

Oklahoma results reported. I am one of the happy ones that passed as well! So relieved to know that I will not have to worry about this test again!!! Congrats to all that passed and good luck to the ones who have not had their results reported yet. Everyone have a safe and Merry Christmas!!

Oklahoma results are in and I am glad to be able to say I passed the Electrical Power PE Exam.

Looks like they only calculated the average value for half of a period for the sine wave. If they calculated the value for second half of the wave, then they would have come up with zero. Bad thing is this seems like just another error in the CI exams. Good thing is you know enough to catch them!!

Bama, The errata sent out by Josh added marks to the horizontal axis on all graphs so it is easier to tell. If you want, PM me an email address and I will send you the two erratas for Variation 3 & 4 tonight when I get home.

Bama, I think the key here is CI says the autotransformer is rated at 500MVA so you cannot use the two problems from the NCEES practice exam as a basis to solve this problem. I posted two pictures in another thread that I linked below that shows the relationship between Sh/Sx to the Sc...

Flyer, So their solution is incorrect and the two solutions I came up with are correct? I understand what you said about the j and that is why I solved it like I did. Just wanted to make sure I was not missing a concept somewhere. Thanks! I agree about the problem statement but it seems CI has...