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Just curious if any other states require this. Texas starts next year. All PE's must get fingerprints taken for license renewal. Yes, all 50k of us. This is part of Senate Bill 204, which was passed in the most recent legislative session. Cost will be around $42 to have the fingerprints done at...

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So, by now you guys have probably heard of the proposed $53 billion dollar (downpayment) for a high speed rail system interconnecting bits of the north and bits of the west. Would you guys use such a system? Think it'd be any better than airlines for delays, security, restrictions, etc? All I...

Instead of sitting at work, drinking coffee and waiting for my PE results, I'm sitting at home, drinking coffee and waiting for my PE results. Wife insisted I take the week off. For some reason, she doesn't want to be stuck with the 3 kids at home for 2 weeks by herself. Imagine that. Ha. I did...

I was looking at the December newsletter on the NCEES web site, and noticed this snippet: So it looks like CBT may be a future possibility - as well as making the PE exam closed book. I kinda have mixed feelings about it, as an Electrical Power person, honestly, I didn't need most of the...

Well, I'm accomplishing 2 goals this year (hopefully). I applied for my PE, and this past weekend I took the concealed handgun class. I'm submitting my paperwork today to get my Texas CHL. So... which results will I get first? PE or CHL? :) I did some reading on CHL, it takes about a month. I...

I've been staring at these for about the last hour, wanted to start a thread on it to get some thoughts. I was reworking the NCEES sample exam this afternoon, and bumped in to 115 again. I understand the integral and all that, but the dirty side of me wants something I can use more generically...

So what are you folks doing in your final week and a half? Me, I've been through the NCEES exam so many times that I can circle the right answers without working the problem. I'm hitting the Kaplan exam again, since it's pretty tough but has some good problems in it (aside from the craptacular...

I'm trying to help my former boss fill my old position. Here's the job description: http://www.brazoselectric.com/hrjobs/get8.asp?ID=158 It's a techy / hands on type engineering position. Can't be afraid to grab a soldering iron, RJ45 crimper, or voltmeter and start doing work yourself. Must...

Any chance of them putting a Scott / T type transformer, zigzag questions, or stuff like that on the exam? Any of you seen them ask something about one of those? Or do they just pretty much stick with Y, delta, and variations thereof?

This book: Kaplan PE Power Practice Exam Anyone ever see an errata list for it? I've spotted a couple of debatable "solutions" in there. For example, I don't think Morning #19 is a valid problem, as the "problem" states clearly "the generator voltage is 45 kV line-to-line", yet when they go...

I'm working some problems and am confused about 2 very similar problems, and can't quite figure out why. My issue is that the solution methods are identical, yet in one they use a mysteriously appearing square root of 3, and the other has no square root of 3. Which one is right, and/or why is...

Anyone else working from this book, and has worked through the Chapter 39 problems yet? This is a new chapter on Power System Analysis (not in the EERM 8.0 book). Do you agree with their answer on 39-3? I would think it's 1.73, and not 1.0. There's also a typo in the solution (1-60 degrees...

Mine has supposedly shipped, so I should be seeing it this week. This is their 'new' reference manual for the Electrical Power exam (now I guess it's called the EPRM). I haven't found the EERM overly useful thus far in my studies. Maybe brought forth answers for a couple of questions, but...

So the last class I took was 15 years ago (a Transmission and Distribution class from the Masters' program at University of Colorado CATECS). I'm now beginning to study for the October exam, Electrical Power. I've got my hands on the PPI2Pass kit (EERM, problem book, quick ref, NCEES example...