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The Florida Board of Professional Engineers website states the following: *** ATTENTION NEW LICENSEES AFTER APRIL 2017 *** If you obtained your PE license by examination in Florida AFTER the April 2017 exam cycle, you are only required to pay the fee to renew your license. You do not need to...

Honestly, unless you have a problem with dry mouth or some other condition, you'll likely not miss it. And in those cases, I'd assume they'd have to make an exception for valid medical conditions. I purposefully didn't drink during the test so I wouldn't have to use the restroom. Every...

Not necessarily. At my site we used long tables (I'm guessing 6' or so - one person to each table) and there was enough room beside you to store books on the floor without them being in the aisle. All depends upon the location and whether they enforce the "under table" rule. I started out nice...

Did not realize the pencil's aren't usually two-toned. Good to know! Not that the color matters to me - that pencil was getting memorialized even if it was bright pink with sparkles and a pom-pom at the end.

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Got my certificate framed and was happy with the results (kind of). The pencil had an ugly wire holding it in place, and was crooked.  :mellow: Did a little surgery and fixed the issues. 1st pic shows the frame as received, 2nd pic shows post surgery.  :D I would have liked to have shown the...

Update - just received a text from the framing store with a pic of my pencil. They found it. Hooray! I’ll post a pic of the frame once I get it.

I get your reasoning. If it were me though, I'd go ahead and get the FE out of the way, regardless of the future probability of getting the PE. If anything, once you obtain your FE, that can serve as an impetus to go the extra mile (or ten) to get your PE. It will be a much easier decision to...

Why hold off on taking the FE? I’d get that out of the way as soon as possible if you plan on taking the PE.

Excellent thought - no contractors involved though. New owners are doing the work themselves.

Nope - the certificate is there. However, when I asked them to locate the certificate for me so I could compare it to some matting, the certificate was just floating in a drawer and not in its envelope. I then asked them to locate the envelope since it had the pencil within it, and it was...

Appreciate the condolences guys. I'll get over it, just disappointing. I really have no recourse against the shop such as leaving a bad online review - no sense in punishing the new owners for something their predecessor did. The old owner did say I will not owe anymore $$ when I come pick it...

October 2017. I wouldn’t want anyone to part with theirs, and wouldn’t accept it if they were willing. It just wouldn’t be the same as framing the instrument that was my intimate partner during those hellish eight hours, you know?

Ugh. As the title states, I intended to get my $600 pencil framed with my certificate. Unfortunately, the local framing store I chose was transitioning from the old owner to a new owner. The existing owner assured me they would complete my project before the transition. Four weeks go by and I...

Much appreciated @ruggercsc I will definitely post back with my experience. After I nearly killed myself preparing for the PE during hours when sane people had long since gone to bed, I'm hoping this study experience will be much more relaxed. I know the PMP exam is no walk in the park, but I...

As an update to my previous post - for anyone looking to get a "long reach" embosser who wants to know the TRUE dimension between the edge of the paper and the edge of the seal (thus the total clearance between seal's edge and paper's edge), for the Shiny model sold at engineerseals.com and...

Recently obtained my PE and this acronym is next on the list for me. Wish I would've known about the test change as I would have started preparing right after taking the PE in October (as much as that would have sucked). Anyway, since I don't have enough time to study for the old format, my...

You're very welcome!  From what I understand about EET, the binders they provide are pretty comprehensive, so you may not need much else. Couldn't hurt to familiarize yourself with the CERM though. I'm not sure if EET has a units conversion section in their binders. If not, I HIGHLY recommend...

Sounds like you're on the right track then. Does your consulting firm do any work for local municipalities? If so, I'd try to forge some relationships with the individuals you come across. Most of our design work is outsourced to consultants with whom we have a revolving continuing engineering...

I was in the same boat about 4 yrs ago, except I worked in the mechanical engineering field and wanted to switch over to civil. I made bookmarks for every county and municipality career website within 50 miles of where I lived, and applied for everything I thought I had a chance at for 2 years...