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Our president sent out a company wide email naming those of us that passed and congratulating us. Then I had to ask HR for new business cards.  The new cards had a position change on it to 'engineer', but my paychecks are identical.  Go figure.

They require seismic/surveying exams prior to PE licensure, and they require PE licensure before SE licensure, so yes, they do require 2 other 3 hour exams

If you have the time to study for the exam now, before you have the experience/approval from the CA board, then a year or two in the future when you do have the experience, it will make getting licensed in CA much easier.  If your experience gets approved, then you will automatically be...

I asked when I passed last year. Guess what the answer was

The point is to get an SE license in another state

There were only 4 of us in SC this go around, at least on the vertical portion...didn't take lateral so I can't speak to those numbers :)   To my knowledge you can only take the exam after you're a PE...the paperwork you fill out is called "Application for Adding Discipline to PE Record" and...

I assume many of those studying for the SE are already PE's...has anyone used time studying for the SE as self reported PDHs?  I learn way more studying for this exam than the people that watch a bunch of videos a week before PDH's are due...just curious.

I had the same reaction.  I have had it for about 2 months and have referenced it a few times a week at my job in addition to normal studying, it is such a great resource and I would have much preferred a hardback that would hold up better against regular use over the years.

If the steel is at a very high temperature, it would have expanded as the temperature rose from 'room temperature'.  Once the temp has risen to say a million degrees, the steel would have been expanding the whole time, but stops expanding once the temp is constant.

You got 0.0975ft which is 1.17inches.

Figured it out...I had the two values backwards in the table.  Nothing to see here...

Note that the table 2.1 I'm referring to is here, on page 2-5:

I understand how to use the table with the design moment factor to get values for the tension reinforcement index.  When I look at table 2.1 where we are given various factors and values for typical beam strengths, I am seeing that the values from the table don't match the given tension...

Sorry, I meant to say that I already got my license number as well. Wish I could edit my posts..

I took the exam in South Carolina and was one of the first to get my results.

My license is in the database as well! Congrats all that passed and good luck to those that will be studying again

You experience differs very much from mine.

Why can I not give posts reputation?  This post is easily funny enough to be deserving of reputation... 

Passed both!  Booyah!  Good luck all

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