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The requirement was for 2011, when in order to be a SE you needed a state specific exam. Legislation was introduced to remove this requirement and took effect on January 1, 2012.

To put it simply there is no intrisic value for what you are worth. Your worth is as much as the next guy is willing to pay to have you on board. The only way to find out is to look around what is available, get your resume out and see what you are getting. Then compare to what you have and...

Few more sugestions: 1) You might have done it in the past, but go again through the NCEES sample questions. 2) Get familiar with ASHTO 2010, as it is a significant portion of the morning lateral exam. 3) Masonry and concrete shear walls design examples 4) Design of diaphragms, chords and...

I am selling my copies of 2006 IBC Seismic Design manuals (3 volumes) - $90 and the latest edition of the Structural Engineer Reference manual - $90. All of them were purchased in January 2012 and are in excellent condition. Send me a message to my Inbox, if you are interested.

I am in the same boat as you are. I will leave you a message in your Inbox.

Wow, you are grossly underpaid, even without the SE license. You should make at least $80-85k and $100k with the SE license. You need to look for a different employer.

Congratulations and thank you for the excellent work on this site.

I have taken both Vertical and Lateral, starting April 2011. I passed Vertical in October 2011 and passed Lateral April 2012, basically taking them both in April and October last year and only Lateral in April 2012. It was a very expensive as I paid $2500+ for the exams and had to travel from CA...

Just to be on the same page, there are no SE1 and SE2, the usual terminology is SE-Vertical and SE-Lateral. If you are using SE1 and SE2 it implies that you need to pass SE1 before you take SE2. The NCEES Exams (now in the second year), you can take either of one separately or both in the same...

I have just passed my SE exam, and I am selling the following exam preparation materials / codes at 50% discount. 1) AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specification Fifth Edition - 2010, two volumes $120 2) 2006 IBC Structural / Seismic Design Manual Volumes 1, 2 & 3 - $105 (This is highly...

Yes, the very last problem on the Buildings lateral exam. I remember you mentioned it right after the exam, too. Based on my evaluation, I should not have gotten an Acceptable on that particular problem. However, I think I did pretty well on the first three. This kind of invalidates the theory...

WA - Building Lateral Passed (third attempt) - I got an email from NCEES and then checked on their website. Passed - Building Vertical in the fall (second attempt). I felt good about the morning session. The afternoon session, did pretty well on the first three problems but I botched the last...

1) With the exception of IL that has two separate streams for PE's and SE's, the rest of the jurisdictions require you to be a PE before you take the SE exam. 4) Exam fees, books, transportation (I live in CA but I am taking my SE exam in WA as I do not have four / three CA SE references) comes...

You need (4) California SE's as references. They need to certify proficiency in 3 out 4 materials (steel, concrete, wood and masonry)...

Pure speculation on my part, too and I will refer to the "Lateral" portion of the exam. Since most of the essays require a loads calculation (wind or earthquake), if you have errors at this part, everything else is based on the loads calculation and it will render your whole essay...

I looked at 2009 IBC , Section 1609 (Wind Loads). It has now 1609.6 "Alternate all-heights method". Do I need to bother with it or should I stick to ASCE 7-2005 (Chapter 6)?

Thank you for the clarification. 33/40 was probably top ten percentile. Scary, it looks like if you score one unacceptable in the PM session you are out, even the aggregate score (PM + AM) is over 70%.

Congratulations! For the April exam, you said you were above average in all sections. What was your score out of 40?

Wow! It better be a good explanation to this. We all understand that the passing score is 70%. But, is that means that on both AM and PM you should have minimum 70%. And again, what acceptable means, as far as scoring is concerned? If on all essays I get a score of 8 out of 10, I believe all of...

I took the exam in WA.