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I passed the Electrical and Electronics PE exam few years ago. For all the transmission line topics (Smith chart, impedance matching, reflection coefficient, SWR, etc, etc) I strongly recommend watching the ECE3300 videos, lectures 12 and 13, posted in Youtube. You will become an expert in...

I agree the term engineer is loosely used in some companies. I have seen job titles such as "quote engineer", "proposal engineer", "bid engineer", "customer engineer", etc

This case was highlighted in the last edition of the IEEE publication The Institute: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/ieee-roundup/blogs/blog/us-judge-rules-mats-jrlstrms-first-amendment-rights-were-infringed

Washington state? If so, your wall certificate will have the name you provided in the PE Online Application form (http://www.dol.wa.gov/forms/651013.pdf)

When I took the PE exam (2014, WA state) I was a green card holder. A couple of coworkers with work visas (H1) took the PE last October.

Yes, there are quite a few, just google Laser Engraved Diplomas or Laser Engraved Certificates. 

The price information is in the web page. Prices may vary depending on the style you choose. For the one shown in the picture (floating acrylic) I paid about $160. A co-worker got the engraved wood style and paid about $80 for it.

I used the services of this company to do the laser-engraving: http://www.laserengravedmemories.com/en/custom-diplomas/ The specific design I used (the one shown in the picture) is called Floating Acrylic Diploma Plaques, but they have other cool-looking designs that you can find on their web...

I laser-engraved my certificate. Looks great. BTW, I took the exam in Oct 2014 and received my certificate in March 2015 (WA state).

In WA state you need to wait about 2 weeks after the results are released to be able to lookup your name and get your license number.

Congratulations @thejulie@GoCougs2002  and to all the new PE's in the Evergreen state !!!! Greetings from the Palouse.

After the results are released, the WA department of licensing takes about 2 weeks to update the dol.wa.gov web page with the new licenses. I took the exam in October 2014 and received the results email notification from NCEES on December 15th at 1:14pm (first day). My license was updated in...

The problem states that it is an ELECTROMECHANICAL differential relay.  As you know, delta-wye transformers have a 30 deg phase shift between primary and secondary. When doing differential protection, we need to compensate for this phase shift (otherwise, currents going into the differential...

Since the problem does not give you any 0 degree reference angle, you can pick any quantity as your 0 degree reference, for example, Van. Then, your voltages would be: Van = 7.62 @ 0 deg Vbn = 7.62 @ -120 deg or you could have picked Vbn as our reference angle. In that case, you would have...

1/s is the impedance of the 1F capacitor. So, you are doing a bode plot using the impedance of the capacitor as a transfer function. That makes sense only if the output of your system is a voltage, and the input is a current (because voltage over current is impedance). In that case your plot...