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Dear engineers, I need assistance in resolving an issue with obtaining my PE license. After passing the mechanical PE exam and applying for the license, the board expressed concern about my experience not being supervised by an authorized individual in mechanical engineering or in an exempt...

Dear all, Happy new year to all! As we all know that there are more PE licensed Civil Engineers (and Structural Engineers) than PE Mechanical Engineers. Can you help me find the statistics from a reputable source that shows the percent of Civil Engineers and Mechanical Engineers that are PE...

Hello All, I am preparing for MDM exam and came across this problem. I have solved it with best of my knowledge and not getting the right answer. Attached is the problem and here is my solution. Can you tell what is wrong with this solution. eq 1: Wa/Wb= Nb/Na eq 2: Wd/We=Ne/Nd solving for...

Dear Engineers, I have something totally unrelated so admins if you have a problem please let me know. I have recently written a cover letter for a job that I am applying for. I am looking for feedback on this letter. Can I email you this letter and you can give me your feedback by replying to...

Hello Does anyone have the following two practice exam that they want to sell: 1) MDM practice exam by hart and Klein. 2) 6 min solution (85 problems and solutions) for MDM

For folks, who didn’t pass, what changes are you going to make in your preparation next time?

Dear All, can you help me understand this problem and how the solution was arrived in the solution, back of the book. I learned online that UCL is 3 times sigma. CL is the average and lies in the center with UCL and LCL the boundaries and that 99.7 percent times the data point will fall between...

Hello, can someone confirm if this is a correct solution. I am not sure where 3 came from for Nw. Thanks in advance.

Dear Engineers, I will be taking the PE mechanical MDM exam in April and recently took a practice exam. I found many problems that were completely new to me and I know there are going to be problems in the actual exam that will be completely new to me. Of course, my goal is to solve as many...

Hello dear Engineer, I have this bolt strength problem and I am trying to understand the concept. Assume, there is a plate of thickness t and diameter D. It has to hold a cable load of force P. How many bolts do we need to have on this plate to carry the load P. (the way I look at the problem...

Does anyone have the older NCEES exam from 2011, the one before the current PE practice exam offered by NCEES? And want to sell it? PDF or physical book? I am willing to pay. Thank you 

Hello all, A little about me, I got 42% on the first attempt (April 2017), 49% on the second (oct 2017) and will be taking it again in April 2018. By looking at the average passing score, I think I need something like 75% to pass it (please correct me if I am wrong).  I have MERM, statics from...

Hello All, I took the exam second time and didn't feel good about it. It looks like I have long way to go but I am going to keep taking it till I pass. I was wondering if people took 5 or more attempts to pass the PE exams? What did people think about you when you told them that? Or it is...

hello Engineers, Please let me know if someone is taking PE machine design in April? Or if there is any group? We can discuss and prepare together to do better in the exam. thanks

Dear Engineers, I took a PE exam in Machine design last week (second attempt) and did not do well at it. There were atleast 5 problems in the first session and 15 in the second session that I had no clue how to solve them. I noticed a wide variety of complexity in problems. Some were straight...