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NCEES just released June 2021 Licensure Exchange newsletter. The PE Structural grading workshop is scheduled for June 2-4th (a week earlier than I was expecting). https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/3_June-2021-LEx.pdf

I have the following references. Note that all of these are for the 2015 IBC/AASHTO 7th edition which is what the PE Civil Structural Depth is based on (the SE Exam has moved on to the 2018 IBC and 8th edition of AASHTO). Structural Engineering Reference Manual by Alan Williams, 9th ed. - $100...

Since I am no longer studying for the SE Exam I have been thinking about the cut score. And I drew a graph. I apologize for it not being digital but it just happened so fast. The x-axis is the AM score The y-axis is the PM score. I put the PM scores in an order that made the most sense to me...

Does anyone have any information on when (what KL/r) you could realistically expect a short column to yield in compression instead of buckle. In the AISC 360-16 code as KL/r goes to zero, Fe will go to infinity, and the Fcr term will go to Fy. Obviously you could solve for the Euler buckling...

Well I registered for the April SE Exam (Passed vertical on first time, this will be the second time for lateral). One thing that kind of smacked me in the face last time was that I didn't really go in with a strategy for the PM portion. For the AM portion I went by topic. For the PM portion I...

I was going through the SE3 surveys and found something interesting. In the 2016 Pay Survey being a sole practitioner was found to be correlated with +42k in pay from the base pay for men and -7k from the base pay for women in the model. In the 2018 SE3 Survey a model was created based off the...

I am getting stuck on this analysis problem. Any help?

I received my exam authorization the other day. Luckily it is very close to my house this time, and I am pretty happy about that. I have been planning everything out, when I need to leave, where I am going to park, what am I going to have for lunch, etc. This brought up a good question, what is...

I have been spending this Friday night combing through the interwebs for the CALTRANS bridge design practice, specifically Chapter 3 as referenced on the skewed wind bridge problems in Connors bridge book. Does anyone have a link for this or could email me this? Or does this simply not exist on...

Does anyone else have the experience of working exclusively in 1 material (for example at a steel fabricator or a precast concrete plant) and needing to show competence in 3 out of the 4 main building materials? This is currently my situation, I am just wondering how everyone else handled it. I...

Just saw this graphic in the NCEES 2019 squared report and I thought that it was interesting. Over the last 4-5 years people are waiting slightly longer to take the FE exam and are taking the PE exam slightly earlier than before. Any ideas on why this is? For the PE exam possibly states relaxing...

FYI there is a Free Basics of Bridge design seminar spread out about 1-1.5 hours a day for 4 days. Link below. I thought it might be a good way to learn bridge topics for the SE exam. http://aisc.org/bridge-workshop

In the NCEES Exam specifications for the Vertical AM exam it has listed "code coefficients and tables" under the Load Distribution and Analysis Methods. What sort of things do you think would fall into this topic? The only thing I can really think of is the ACI simplified analysis procedures for...

Just passed surveying. Knew I was going to resell it so made very minimal notes in it. Sells for $139 on his website. Selling for $75. Venmo is easiest.

 I was reading through threads on here where people thought that there morning score wouldn't affect the afternoon passing score (I would have thought this too). Maybe everyone else knows this but I thought I would just post a response I got from NCEES anyway: Thank you for contacting NCEES...

While preparing for the PE Exam I found it extremely difficult to find good practice exams, especially online (ones where I didn't have to go through an expensive review course). Did you find the same thing? What Civil PE practice exams were most helpful?