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Totally to add on.  I'm in California, so I ended up having both the civil and mechanical PE, because they are treated differently, and I don't want to get into the position where I design some mechanical system and am "not covered."  I'm have a mechanical engineering background but I do lots of...

I have both mechanical and civil PEs now.  I previous career I was a power plant mechanical design engineer so the mechanical thermal fluids was a breeze.  My current role is mostly piping and plants construction projects, and I noticed at least in California the civil PE covers a bit more...

Yeah, passed all three.  I was most concerned about the seismic since it's I don't usually do that type of work.  By the time I got around to studying seismic I had so many deadlines at work stacking up I felt like I didn't spend enough time.

Once you go black...

TL;DR version:  -EET course for Civil Breadth and Construction Depth - worth it -Hiner course for Seismic - good cheat sheets but hard to follow videos -Mansour book only for Surveying - very complete --- I just noticed this thread. I'll throw my hat in for the record.  I have a mechanical...

I only bought Mansour's Surveying book off Amazon. I don't have a civil background but I crazily did all three tests this cycle. Of the three tests needed for CA, I was very confident in the Surveying portion because of Mansour's book.  It's well organized, easy to flip through (especially with...

Yep.  I took EET for both breadth and depth Construction.  Covered everything I needed, and there were extras not in the binder that were posted on their shared directories online.  I pretty much only used the two binders, a printed copy of OSHA 29 CFR 1926 for the 8-hr exam.  I only opened CERM...

I don't think you have to file the notification for this (Oct 2016) cycle. In one of the threads on EB someone got an email from the state Board confirming that the notifications would be required starting the next cycle (April 2017) when the NCEES is decoupled from registration. Incidentally...

Yeah, my bad it looks like it's different this cycle. When I passed a few years ago, I already saw my number online by the time I got the email notification.  This time my email notification looks different.  

This actually happened to me.  You have to open a ticket with NCEES and they will unlock.  I already have a Mechanical PE and the system would not let me sign up for Civil PE this October 2016 cycle. They fixed it within a day.  This is pretty much CA specific since many other states are not PE...

Hurray!  Passed Civil Construction.  Now just waiting for CA Seismic and CA Surveying... Hopefully this evening!

Hurray!  Passed Civil Construction.  Now just waiting for CA Seismic and CA Surveying... Hopefully this evening!

Hurray!  Passed Civil Construction.  Now just waiting for CA Seismic and CA Surveying... Hopefully this evening!

PE licensure is not required, but it is supported by my company as part of our career and technical development. We get covered for our first license (all books, training, registration and test fees), but additional licenses are only covered if required for the business (usually no). When I did...

Interesting.  That adds a wrinkle to the new process, such that it will at minimum take 2 exam cycles to complete your Civil PE.  Thanks for the info!  This October 2016 and April 2017 appear to be the last times you can potentially do all in one cycle.

I dunno, reading all these posts about how California is slow actually makes me more anxious!  I already have my Mechanical PE from Spring 2014.  I actually completely forgot about it at the time until the Board sent their emails 5/23/14 notifying my pass.  It was out of my mind then.  I took...

(For Civil PE) You can take all three at once, or 1 at a time.  If you're approved for all three then you can take all three; there's no wait until you get the PE results back. For reference I applied in March 17 for my October 2016 exams.  I got an email on May 24 that said I was approved for...

That's what the screen always show if you try to take another Principles and Practice Exam if you already passed one test of any type.  I passed the Mechanical in 2014, and in order to register for the Civil in 2016 I had to get NCEES to open it for me. 

In California the moment you receive your notification from the board that you pass you can go online and see your number already assigned in the license checker.

This sounds like a new process, perhaps related to the decoupling of the NCEES from registration.  When I passed my PE in April 2014, as soon as I got the email from the board notifying pass (May 23, 2014), I logged into license checker and saw my number already listed.  Granted this is for my...