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I'll be visiting lovely Seattle and Tacoma in the next few weeks to write the SE exam. The exam is located in the Tacoma Convention & Trade Center. Can anyone recommend a hotel nearby that is modestly priced? I'll be renting a car and parking at the convention center, so I don't mind a bit...

When calculating the wall weights to be used in for the seismic weight I see two approaches when dealing with the ground floor (or a single story building) The first one is that the entire height of the wall is considered as part of the seismic weight. Williams likes to do this in his examples...

I guess this is a more a question for Kevo, since I believe he is the only SEII veteran on the forum. Anyone else with experience or opinions feel free to chime. Any and all advice is appreciated. With the Civil PE exam people usually jump around from question to question looking to do the...

For some reason in my bachelor's program we ignored this subject and in my masters we spend maybe a week on it. So I am not that familiar with it. I have a basic idea how to use this method, but I am not sure when I am required to apply it. Are there certain types of questions or situations...

Since the SEII exam is open ended I feel it is possible that a test taker may end up doing more work than what is really necessary (or rather do things that NCEES wasn't expecting to be included in the answers). For some design codes, items addressed in appendices and the commentary are not...

I have a few questions regarding the NCEES practice exam. For the most part I understand what they are doing, but some things I just can't figure it out. These are building questions Question 450 (the full question is found here: SEII Errata) part © They are asking you to design the column...

I'm looking to get a preliminary cost estimate of a suspension bridge that will take a few small pipelines over a river valley. It's in northern Alberta and spans about 400m (~1300ft). And although, it carries pipes, I am looking at making using a bridge deck to support the pipes, as opposed to...

Is there a good chance we will be asked to calculate the deflection of a frame, or of a structure in the exam? I can see that happening on one of the seismic questions and quite possibly on a column question where we would be required to use the second-order by amplified first-order analysis...

Am I insane for thinking this, but since the SEII is on a Friday and the SEIII (for WA) is on a Saturday, does anyone think that is possible to write them both in October? I am thinking that since the two use the same essay style format and both touch upon seismic design that it wouldn't be...

I have access to the 5th Edition of the PCI Design Handbook for prestressed and precast concrete... Will that be enough for the Fall '08 SEII exam? I know NCEES has said that the 6th edition will be referenced on the test... is there a significant difference between the two? ICC doesn't have it...

Ok, I have never looked at these two items before since I live in Canada... I imagine there might be one or two questions on the WR afternoon depth exam. Would it be worthwhile skimming through these documents or just having them on hand with me at the exam would be good enough? Is there a...

Does anyone know where I could grab a .pdf of the NRCS's TR-55 manual? I can't seem to find it on the NRCS ftp site... and any link turns to be old and broken... Thanks in advance for any and all help. Regards, Casey

Hi, I am an structural engineer from Canada and will be taking the April 2008 Civil PE exam for the state of Washington. Right now I am trying to determine which afternoon depth exam I should focus my attention on. Although, I primarily practise structural engineering, I am only really...