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It's gotta happen sooner or later. Most of us were surprised they didn't switch this October so I'd assume they're going to switch next year.

I never had any real difficulty on this but they did require me to show that the work I did under a PE was structural related. I agree with smahurin that's how you'll likely have to proceed.

Super illogical but since when has that stopped people from causing legal trouble. Only took me a little bit to dig up one of these: HOUSTON, STANLEY M., III Unlicensed Citation 5096-U Final: December 30, 2001 Action: Order of Abatement, $500 Fine Investigation revealed that Stanley M...

While I know what you mean sayed keep in mind that your state board attorney is likely only considering your state and perhaps the surrounding states. However, other states may not consider this kosher. For example, if you hand out a business card that makes it's way to a business based in IL...

Most engineers consider it inappropriate to put "SE" at the end of your name unless you're licensed in some state that required the 16-hour SE exam for "something". Either a title restriction or separate SE license. I personally think that a state that gives a roster designation of "structural"...

I'd contact the Texas board directly, I don't know if anyone on here can give you the most accurate advice.

More expensive, you need the CA PE first, and I believe you still have to take the CA specific seismic exam. It may also be that you need references from other CA SEs but I'm not sure on this one. In short, I quickly concluded that you should only get a CA SE if you actually need one. Being on...

Nothing about how they handle the records makes sense.

After the records update debacle I would 100% agree with the sentiment that NCEES is not "super helpful". My advice is avoid paying NCEES money wherever possible. I did not have to interview with IL. They had no issue with me taking my SE exam in Maine. Their only beef was my documented...

Well, that might cause some delays for any state you apply to. The biggest issue most have with IL (beyond IL's lengthy time to respond to anything) is their structural experience requirements. If you took a number of structural courses in getting your MSc and PhD then you should be fine. So...

I went with IL as while it can definitely take a while to get approved it's a cheap SE license to maintain. However, if getting "SE" behind your name quickly was more important then I agree that one of the Western states starting with N is probably best.

Sounds like you and Chris had the same issues.

Unfortunately not at this time. We're currently working on breaking up the course better for bridges and buildings and vertical and lateral so that people can tailor it to their exams. For right now we only have the combined vertical and lateral. It's still a great value but I fully admit that...

Ugh, I have no idea what direction to go with the review course this Fall. The past two exams have thrown a number of curve balls but at the same time the passing rate is the same and it appears that most people dealt with the curve balls well enough. I guess I'll keep things the same but highly...

Chris, this is interesting as you passed vertical and your lateral afternoon looked great. How did you feel about the lateral morning? Are you surprised with your score?

Curse words, that's what you say. The highest all "acceptable" score I've been told was 23/40 and Acceptable, Acceptable, Acceptable (bridges). You're the only building all "acceptable" I've seen. Probably just 6 or so more morning questions and you would have had it. Definitely keep it up, you...

Much appreciated, glad we helped. Give yourself plenty of credit too, you worked hard for this. Damn, looks like your morning was the issue for sure but you're fairly close. Might have just been a few minor errors or unlucky guesses slipped in enough to knock your score down. Something tells me...

Interesting. Vertical bridges first time takers continues to improve with repeat takers about the same over the last year. Lateral bridges is roughly unchanged. Vertical buildings is more or less unchanged, slight improvement on the repeat takers passing rate. Lateral buildings of April 2016...

Yep, I remember you being in an earlier lecture. Still bothers me that you haven't achieved success after all the hard work you've put in. If you do decide on another crack at the exam hopefully I can help you out with it. Entirely true, but that would mean that you would think that someone...

Yeah, NCEES can easily find what the general study topics are and what material is available for a typical engineer studying for this exam. If they're using this to deliberately make exam topics that are hard to study for then I would be very upset. Though they supposedly tailor the passing...