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jdscott,
I believe that you are doing pretty good so far especially considering that you have a civil background. However the first thing that I would suggest is that you get rid of Camara's Practice exam, everyone that I know of have failed the PE exam that used those practice exams. Although Camara's reference guide is good, keep it. Secondly you should get Grafeo's book, it helped me a lot during my preparation for the April 2014 exam last year. I would also recommend that you get Electric Machinery Fundamentals by Stephen Chapman, because you will need this for topics such as auto-transformers and power electronics. The Wildi book is an excellent reference for every other electric machines topic as well as other topics. Another book to get is Power System Analysis and Design by J. Duncan Glover,Mulukutla S. Sarma andThomas Overbye. This is good for balanced and unbalanced faults, symmetrical components and system protection. Or you can get the third edition of Power System Analysis written only by William Stevenson (only) and not Grainger. Grainger took out system protection out of it and in my opinion he convoluted Stevenson's work which use to be excellent, but that's another story. Another very importatnt recomendation, is that you get the NEC handbook (2014) and the 300 NEC drill problems. The NEC is a major topic of the PE. Also fimiliarize yourself with lighting concepts and equations. Finally you need to really strengthen yourself in the area of engineering economics.
I believe that you are doing pretty good so far especially considering that you have a civil background. However the first thing that I would suggest is that you get rid of Camara's Practice exam, everyone that I know of have failed the PE exam that used those practice exams. Although Camara's reference guide is good, keep it. Secondly you should get Grafeo's book, it helped me a lot during my preparation for the April 2014 exam last year. I would also recommend that you get Electric Machinery Fundamentals by Stephen Chapman, because you will need this for topics such as auto-transformers and power electronics. The Wildi book is an excellent reference for every other electric machines topic as well as other topics. Another book to get is Power System Analysis and Design by J. Duncan Glover,Mulukutla S. Sarma andThomas Overbye. This is good for balanced and unbalanced faults, symmetrical components and system protection. Or you can get the third edition of Power System Analysis written only by William Stevenson (only) and not Grainger. Grainger took out system protection out of it and in my opinion he convoluted Stevenson's work which use to be excellent, but that's another story. Another very importatnt recomendation, is that you get the NEC handbook (2014) and the 300 NEC drill problems. The NEC is a major topic of the PE. Also fimiliarize yourself with lighting concepts and equations. Finally you need to really strengthen yourself in the area of engineering economics.
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