Recent content by ajk244

I sent in my paperwork back in October to take the Surveying and Seismic exams in April (I'm already a PE elsewhere, I sent my NCEES record and indicated I was just taking those two exams). The board cashed my check, but I've never received the two self-addressed-stamped postcards back. Is that...

I'd second the SEAOI course. It's a lot better value (price per contact hour) than the other courses I looked into. You may not get a ton out of every session, but I feel like review courses (both this one and the PE review course I took) added more structure to my preparation by having...

CTS is showing pass for both for me :party-smiley-048: (I was hoping I'd get a chance to use that emoticon). I'll definitely recommend the SEAOC books. There's a lot in there that's never explained in the codes. Also, the 16 hour practice exam from ppi is fantastic. Very challenging, but...

Same here. Passed next to vertical :) , blank for lateral. Maybe somebody input the vertical results and went home for the day.

I got mine here: http://www.buildersbook.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=bbi&Product_Code=9011S09&Category_Code= It seemed to be the cheapest I was coming across ($168 after shipping).

Has anybody heard anything new from Illinois (CTS)? I assume any answer they give is bogus, but am curious if anybody is actually getting a response.

On quantity of questions in each area, I think you can make valid argument for just about anything. I could argue that there are too few ACI questions because they use up concrete questions with AASHTO, for both more or fewer pure analysis problems, etc. In the end, I think the mix they have...

I took the building afternoon, but I honestly didn't have a problem with having bridge questions in the morning. I don't like the idea of having zero knowledge in a large area of structural engineering, so I enjoyed preparing for those questions. I can at least get around in the AASHTO code now...

I finished school and got a job right before the recession hit, so the landscape has probably changed quite a bit, but here's my impressions. 1. Is a Master's degree a must to find a job? I used the extra room in my schedule during my last semester of my BS to start my MS, then took online and...

I can't remember if I heard it one here or from a friend, but I heard of an exam session that had extremely loud construction going on right outside. I imagine after something like that they had a ton of people crying foul and now they have ot cover themselves.

Yea, I worked through it over the weekend. Luckily I was on high alert for errors after reading about it one here, so I didn't waste much time reviewing their solutions.

I agree with your approach and numbers. The table explicitly says "Vy" and "Ty" and the footnotes are even clearer about it, so the north-south eccentricity should be used (10.6'), leading to 0.9%. Error-filled references have been the most frustrating part of studying for this.

I don't have it in front of me to look, but I wasn't getting my answers to match on a couple of the SEAOC rigid diaphragm distributions. I believe on one I figured out they were multiplying by the eccentricity twice or something and on another they were adding the rotational shear to the direct...

I got ahold of a copy of the old SEII practice exam since I was running out of fresh problems to do that are appropriate time- and difficulty-wise for the SE exam. Looking through the message board, it seems there were quite a few issues with this practice exam, though, and I can't seem to find...

In case you still have some confusion on the last part of your question, hopefully this helps. Here's a quick sketch of an elevation view of that collector and that inside corner wall. To visualize what's happening, you can draw an axial diagram for the collector (The hatched area on the...