Crane for the PE?

[cheme2004]

Is it worth it to get Crane for the PE? Do you think it is a big time saver? why?

 

[snickerd3]

i didn't have it and did just fine.

 

[CbusPaul]

I did not have Crane for the PE and don't think I would have used it if I had it. Stick to references you are intimately familiar with and you will be fine.

 

[ironman]

I had it and it saved me time on pumping/fluids problmes so I had time to mull over chemical reaction problems. The crane equations are sort of user ready equations, as with any PE question you have to be careful of units but I though the crane was very useful. I was also able to pull some direct answers out of perrys using the index, I think I found 3 or so questions that they just straight up copied out of perrys and if I can find it in the index its an easy point in less than 1 min.

Also for chemical reaction questions I would get octave levenspiel, I did not have it for the exam but ordered it right after sitting and it had alot of equations I could have used.

 

[snickerd3]

I did not have Crane for the PE and don't think I would have used it if I had it. Stick to references you are intimately familiar with and you will be fine.

I agree with Cbus. At this stage in the game stick to the references you are comfortable with. Spending lots of $ on books you didn't fully study with and might not ever use again isn't really worth it.

 

[ironman]

I did not have Crane for the PE and don't think I would have used it if I had it. Stick to references you are intimately familiar with and you will be fine.

I agree with Cbus. At this stage in the game stick to the references you are comfortable with. Spending lots of $ on books you didn't fully study with and might not ever use again isn't really worth it.

Thats a good point, I had used crane for 4 years before sitting for the exam so it made sense.

 

[FusionWhite]

I use Cranes just about every week at work so I plan on bringing it with me. Ive found that the appendices of the book are very good, but I probably wouldnt use it to reference formulas.

 

[Slugger926]

I did not have Crane for the PE and don't think I would have used it if I had it. Stick to references you are intimately familiar with and you will be fine.

Good advice for all disiplines, especially anyone venturing into the Ag PE exam.

 

[FusionWhite]

I brought Cranes to the PE and used it a couple times to look up some velocities for pipe flow. The ChERM has the same table, but I had it tabbed in Cranes and knew exactly where to look so it saved me a minute or so over the ChERM and about 4 minutes over calculating the velocities manually.