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You are getting a bit of conflicting information about what references you need to take the PE exam. If you're looking to practice in Florida, you should read the board website to make sure you will be eligible: http://www.fbpe.org/licensure/application-process Florida requires 4 years of...

Hazardous Waste Management by Lagrega and the Salvato environmental engineering text. If you haven't read the consolidated advice thread, you should. We've listed our useful references out there.

I went to an NCEES meeting about the FE conversion and we talked with board members about the future conversion to CBT for the PE, and one of the things that was brought up is that the testing centers don't have the space for people to bring references in and they aren't willing to police them...

You can take the NYS FE exam in Albany, Syracuse, or Rochester too. FE applications are due 6/1 in NYS. Also, in NYS you have to have completed at least 3 years/84 credit hours to be considered eligible, so it sounds like you would meet that requirement.

I agree. And there's no guarantee that references will be searchable. They could just stick with an index. The reference issue is probably the biggest obstacle for the conversion, from what I've heard.

One thing I don't remember seeing in the EERM: you should be able to see a list of sampling results and be able to identify the water source - like knowing that moderate to high levels of fecal coliforms and turbidity indicate surface water while groundwater has moderate to high levels of...

You're right, they don't publish passing scores. So many people take the civil exam and post their diagnostics that they can generally figure theirs out, but I've only heard the failing score of one Env person, which was a 64. I would guess that's pretty darn close to the cutoff. I probably...

NY also doesn't allow any food or drinks, including water and hard candy. I don't think gum was allowed either. It didn't matter if it was unwrapped like the reference manual suggests, either. I almost had my water confiscated but I asked if I could keep it in my bag, and the proctor let me...

In April 2012, I had 4 problems that I recognized from the 2011 NCEES exam. Two were the exact same problems but with different values. One had the same diagram but asked a different question. The 4th wasn't really similar at all, but I remembered getting a question wrong on the practice exam...

I took the exam in April 2012 in NY. No scratch paper was given, but I had enough room in my booklet. The exam was divided up exactly into all water topics (32%) and solid waste (18%) in the morning, and the afternoon was air (23%), remediation (12%), health and safety (8%), and other...

What state are you in? NY does not require that your experience be under a PE, so you could consider taking it here. You would have to find out how many years of work experience they require - with a Masters it's normally 3, but since your Bachelors wasn't ABET-accredited it is likely more...

I never ordered a stamp but my boss' leaves off the 16. As far as I know we don't have a stamp with that warning - we just type it on all our drawings that require a seal.

I got a raise to about $60,000 after I passed the April 2012 exam. I live in a city but not NYC and I believe this is typical for my area with its low cost of living. My next promotion is likely to come in 3-4 years depending on my quality of work and that should add another $10k, though I...

Don't represent yourself as a PE until you receive your registration from NYS. Mine is dated two days before I received it in the mail and the same day I was added to the online database - until you're added, NYS has not officially licensed you. They review your application again and they can...

It was more than a month for the April 2012 examinees.

It's dropped pretty dramatically since the April 2011 revisions. The pass rate for the April 2012 administration, which is when I took it, was only 59%.

Congrats!

Huh, I definitely got mine right away. Well, everyone waiting should combine the SMS alert with obsessive checking of EB and they'll find out somehow!

It was more than a month after I found out I passed from the NCEES website before I was listed with a license number. I think it was more like 6 weeks, actually. Definitely don't hold your breath checking there. I set up an SMS alert for "NCEES" with my Gmail account so I'd know immediately...

You should focus on your university's career center. If you've relocated since graduation and don't see much in your current area, I would try networking with friends or acquaintances in your current city instead. I see jobs in major cities like NYC listed on LinkedIn all the time. Make sure...