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    does the PE title apply to all engineering?

    I had an interesting question raised to me last night that I didn't know the answer to...somebody asked me "since you have your civil PE license now, does that mean you could theoretically go get an electrical or mechanical engineering job and use your PE there? or does it only count towards...
  2. M

    bad news (for Maine anyway)

    just got this from somebody from the state board: Matt, I just checked with NCEES yesterday, as they had planned to mail them to us on Friday. They've had a problem with scoring the FE's so the send date has been delayed to possibly this Wednesday. Which would mean that we would have to hold...
  3. M

    just took the lindeburg practice test

    it didnt go well...got solid answers for about 55% of them :smileyballs: i've heard that this test is a lot harder than the actual test, is that true? should i not be worried? i'm doing the NCEES one sunday, i'm hoping that goes better. just a few thoughts, off the top of my head: is the...
  4. M

    Darcy or Hazen-Williams?

    how do you know when its safe to use the hazen-williams equation instead of the darcy equation to find head loss due to friction? i know hazen-williams is only for turbulant flow, but it seems like when working through problems, they just automatically know when to use it and when to go through...
  5. M

    importance of concrete mixtures book?

    i bought the PCA concrete mixtures book listed in the design standards, but the exam specs only has one part of the "other topics" section that mentions concrete...is this book worth putting a lot of time into? i've skimmed through it but i dont want to waste a bunch of (now very limited) time...
  6. M

    calculating green time

    Questionable post deleted to be on the safe side -VTE
  7. M

    6-minute solutions problem

    i'm not getting the solution to the water resources 6-min problem # 34. it seems pretty straightforward, but they're using some odd version of the manning equation that i've never seen. if you solve the problem using the standard Q = (1.00/n)AR^(2/3)sqrt(S), you get about 29.3 m^3/s. but...
  8. M

    is the NCEES question book worth getting?

    i'm talking about this one https://commerce.ncees.org/study_materials/...?ProductCode=1J i already have six minute solutions and the lindeburg practice problems book (also the practice test), is this book also worth getting?
  9. M

    do we need the AISC ASD manual?

    or is the CERM enough for the morning structural portion? everything i've studied always refers to that manual, and i'm worried i wont be able to do the problems without it.
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