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FE - 28 PE - 37 MechE, US Citizen (These were both first-attempt passes, I just wasn’t that diligent about taking the tests since they aren’t very important in my sub-field, so I was doing it mostly out of personal interest.)

Just show up and take it. I took it cold and passed (probably just barely, but who knows). If you fail, who cares? There's no downside at all, that I can see at least. You'll at least be relaxed.

That's interesting. I attend several professional conferences (full week!) per year that provide a Certificate of Attendance, but it doesn't specify a number of hours. Do those count for anything?

I ordered and received mine with the last 5. Ah well. 

They were too complex; too many steps to represent "real" exam problems. I can see how if you worked through them they would prepare you well, but really they would prepare you by over-preparing you. From a purely test-prep standpoint I think that's not optimal (i.e. you will have put more time...

Thanks! Please do.

I'm not actually. Kind of pricey, isn't it? Where's the dinner happen? (I don't actually live in Michigan.) Possible to attend without being a member... or get the certificate without attending? :-)

Got it. It is... very unimpressive. Like a cosmetology license or something.

I think the guy diagonally left in front of me had about 4 calculators. I only brought the one myself.

  Very interesting! Two votes for 5 and one vote for 10... I like the idea of 5 better, personally, and it's extremely unlikely I'll ever stamp anything so....

Anyone know if Michigan even gives you a certificate? lol...

Would love to hear how this turned out!

Does anyone know whether the license number that ought to go on (for example) a stamp is the full 10-digit number, for example "62010XXXXX" (where the "62010" is common to all PEs in Michigan and other professional licenses seem to have their own five-digit prefix), or just the last part...

"(as the correct ABCD answers are equal = 10 each)" Wait, is that true? It's always exactly 10 of each? If I'd known that, definitely would've changed by "guessing" strategy at the end, too. Oh well, passed anyway.

Oh, I see. So at this point, you aren't at any disadvantage since your references are already processed.

It seems to be literally everybody licensed in the recent batch.

Mine also expires 10/31/2019 (in fact, punching in random numbers around mine, all of the recently-issued licenses do). Annoying. At least Michigan is one of the cheapest states to renew in!

Got my number! I'm official! :-) (Is the 10-digit ID number the "real" number, or just the last 5? In other words, what goes on the stamp?)

A number of the very top schools (where a good proportion of the students are heading to PhD programs or research positions, rather than "engineering" per se) have been abandoning it recently because they think it's too restrictive. I believe Caltech followed Stanford's lead the next year in...

Glad that's not necessary anymore; I definitely don't have that.