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MeowMeow, I think Beach_Vince's advice is spot on.  Just because you are not passionate about the engineering role you are in now doesn't mean that you are not meant for another engineering role. It took me several years to find my place, but when I did everything just clicked.  Few people that...

I was in a similar position having graduated in 1994 and waiting until 2011 to take my mechanical PE exam.  Average student in school, and I took the machine design and materials test.  The practice exam from the NCEES was most helpful (to me) in pointing out where I needed to study.  I did...

Congratulations all!

I had to do a double take as this was my exact feelings when I took the PE after being out of school for 17 years. I agree with GoBears.

Take it. When you enjoy what you do, it makes a big difference in your career.

Registered isn't used much these days. I believe the change came about when most states started requiring professional development hours. Engineers who were registered with the respective state prior to whatever year was chosen (say 1990), could stay registered as professional engineers without...

I agree with Johnny123. The MERM seemed harder to me than the actual test. The practice test I bought from NCEES (I believe) was representative of the actual difficulty (i.e., not as hard as many of the MERM problems).

The company where I work is hiring mechanical engineers both where I am (Charleston, SC) and in Decatur. Here is a link to the job description along with the recruiter we are using. />http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1104839881263-369/PLANT+MAINTENANCE+POSITIONS.pdf...

Agree with all the above. No disclaimer needed.

Until you are assigned a license number from the state, you do not yet have a license. Surferjrr is correct.

Agree with all those suggesting taking the first 5 minutes to triage the problems into a easy, medium, hard category. You don't want to be looking at your watch every 5 minutes trying to figure out if you are on track or not.

Good luck all. I passed the test in April 2011 and still remember how anxious I was that last week before the test.

Relocation available and a great place to work.

I started out working for a Utility (American Electric Power) as a field engineer traveling and working at all of their power generation sites and the experience was invaluable. If you aren't tied down, now is the time to take such a position. This will be harder to do as you start a family. I...