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I broke it down into 3 smaller binders in a way that made sense to me. First was something like analysis, loads, and maybe wood. Second was steel and concrete. Third binder had everything else. Get prepunched paper. Printing depends on your equipment. I used my office printer that could print...

No one knows what they really want but here is my opinion. You definitely need to reference all values you get from tables. For example, you don’t want to get some random allowable wood stress number without saying where it came from. Referencing equations is nice but if you don’t have time...

I did SE primarily for my personal growth and to make myself stand out from a “crowd” of a large number of PE’s from different CE disciplines I felt like my portfolio didn’t do the justice of my engineering skills and design experience. I have worked in a growing small town for 9 years doing a...

They had a program to grandfather PE’s in Georgia in the last year. I believe Applicants had a 6 month window to apply. It was my understanding that if you were a PE based on passed PE Civil Exam and you had a history of being EOR for designated structures (Risk Category III-IV and/or buildings...

Congrats! I believe outstanding performance in AM can greatly help to overcome not so good result in PM. Last year, I solved all AM questions and wasn’t quite sure about PM. I felt like my AM scores was anywhere between 35-38/40 and PM was probably A-A-IR-IR. 2 IR’s is not a very good score...

Thanks for clarifying. I thought I missed some changes in GA laws…

Where does this come from? SE for sf 2000 single family ? I don’t remember anything like that when I was reading GA statues about SE.

basically, it is equivalent to A-A-IR-IR for SE building exam. I always thought that if I get two IR’s, I need a really good AM score, something like 35/40, which very difficult for bridge engineers.

Do all three bridge questions have equal value or one of them has as much value as the the other two combined?

You should be so much ahead of me! I spent 40% of my lateral prep time for special seismic steel framing systems because I had no real life experience with SDC D or working with seismic steel design manual. Good luck!

I passed both vertical and lateral in 2021. I took AEI class. I also bought all PPI books including SERM. I found PPI books including SERM greatly lacks seismic steel design material. You can’t pass lateral exam without good knowledge of steel design in high seismic design categories. I’m...

I’ve been also curious if I need my personal professional liability insurance though I’m not doing side jobs and my company provides a coverage. What happens when, let’s say, the company doesn’t exist anymore in 10 years when someone decides to sue me as a EOR?

Though it is not a set of true depth problems, SEAOC Design Manuals are good to review some in depth seismic topics. Don’t expect their examples to be 1 hr problems and not all parts of their examples are applicable to the exam topics, but it is still good in depth information to review for...

I agree, most of the examples in SDM are way too deep. The examples is not what makes this manual very important. If you have a different sources of examples such as AEI class, you should be ok. I still covered some of the examples in SDM but only as a brief review, not working through an entire...

I just don’t see how someone can make that many mistakes due to code changes unless s/he used old codes or old class notes during the exam. Well, using old codes to save a few $$$ after studying for hundreds of hours is just not smart. I don’t do engineering based on the equations that I...