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I believe you still have to wait the 3 years. I have a colleague going through the same. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, though.

Unless things changed in the past year, you have to apply in Illinois, and you have to be approved before you take the exam. After you pass, you are assigned your license number. They recently changed in IL where you can take the exam before you meet your experience requirements and apply for a...

Illinois will not accept the 16 hour SE for PE licensure, as Illinois licenses structural and professional engineers separately. If your area of expertise is in structural engineering, as shown by passing the 16 hour structural exam, a PE license won't do you any good in Illinois anyway, as you...

I don't know where you got your degree, but the civil engineering program at IIT in Chicago requires 21 credits in structural, only 6 of which are in analysis. 2 courses in steel design (6 credits total) 2 courses in concrete design (6 credits total) 1 course in foundation design (3 credits)...

P, See this document for requirements: http://www.idfpr.com/Renewals/apply/forms/se-end.pdf TLDR: Must hold an active license in another state. 4 yrs of SE experience. Double that if your degree is in science, not engineering. NCEES credential evaluation, and passed TOEFL and/or TSE tests. If...

I wonder why that would be? I used earplugs when I took the exam. I think I brought around 5 pairs. Redundancy FTW!

Oh man, that sucks. That reminds me of when I took the FE exam in Illinois. They had signs all along the hallway up to the room telling you what calculators were allowed, and someone sitting behind me still brought their TI-89, and no other calculator. Major Fail.

Method 1 is a quick and dirty way to get the load in the diaphragm, but method 2 is the accurate way to get the load. Imagine the wall as a simply supported beam with a cantilever (the parapet) at one end. Method 2 addresses the load distribution in this way, while method 1 is just a tributary...

You're reading way to much into the provision. Although the brace force is 56.6 kips, the brace is resisting 40 kips of the horizontal force. It's not the magnitude of the force in the brace that you look at when checking that provision, but the magnitude of the horizontal force being resisted...

You can use influence lines for statically determinate structures. They just tend to be simpler than for indeterminate structures. It wouldn't hurt to study. You don't want to give up easy points because you didn't study something simple.

As you have used variables, y in this case should be 1 in, the distance from the centroid to the point you're calculating stress. the 3 inches you are saying is y is being used to calculate the moment on the shaft about the centroid. Take a look at your process again, and see if you get the...

That provision states that 30%-70% of the total horizontal force along a line of braces is to be resisted by braces in tension. In the frame in question, you have one brace resisting the force in tension, and one in compression. The symmetry of the braces means each brace is resisting 50% of the...

I don't have that book, but your total seismic weight is independent of the direction of ground motion. I'm guessing that the 60 foot walls you mention are oriented E-W. While they would provide no stiffness in the N-S direction, their weight would still contribute to the seismic force in the...

If you read the commentary to the code (page CC-63), it states that there are currently no strength design provisions for axial stress greater than 0.20f'm. You'd probably have to look at allowable stress design. In the context of the exam, which I'm guessing you're studying for, the exam...

Thanks, waiting for the results to come in after seeing the pass rate was no fun.

I took the SEAOI review course online from November until March, and then I took the exam in October 2012. I passed both parts in the same sitting. While I was taking the review course (2 times a week), I didn't do too much extra studying, but once summer hit, I was studying multiple times...

SEAOI offers a great review course that you can take online, but that begins in the fall and goes through the week or two before the April exam date. It focuses mostly on buildings, but also has a few sessions on bridges which was enough to get me through the MC questions on the exam. Ditto on...

There is a lot of good studying material out there for the SE. Do a search in the forums, and I'm sure you'll come across the good stuff. I personally used the NCEES sample exams (the current edition is available on their website), the PPI sample exam for buildings, and the SEAOC Seismic...

The first day covers vertical and incidental lateral loads. So you're looking at dead, live, snow, soil, etc. The morning portion covers both buildings and bridges, but focuses mostly on buildings. The second day covers lateral loads only, so wind and seismic. Again, they focus on both buildings...

I'd also recommend the SEAOC seismic manuals. The ones I used referenced the 2006 IBC, and the exam was 2009 IBC, but I found that it didn't matter. The changes in the code are minor, but the concepts and methods you use are exactly the same. It goes through horizontal distribution of lateral...