Chemical PE Exam Prep

[shuk0014]

Any suggestions on what books/study materials to buy to prepare for the exam? I'm five years out of school, already taken the FE. Trying to find something to brush up on exam topics, and hoping to take it in Spring 2011.

 

[FusionWhite]

Humm...no responses. Us ChE's get no respect around here.

Well heres what Im taking to the test:

Chemical Engineer Review Manual

ChERM Practice Problems Book

6-min Solutions

Cranes Technical Paper 410: Flow of Fluids Through Pipes and Valves

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering by McCabe, Smith et al.

Ive debated taking my copy of Perrys but it tough to find stuff in that book in a short period of time.

 

[snickerd3]

Humm...no responses. Us ChE's get no respect around here.
Well heres what Im taking to the test:

Chemical Engineer Review Manual

ChERM Practice Problems Book

6-min Solutions

Cranes Technical Paper 410: Flow of Fluids Through Pipes and Valves

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering by McCabe, Smith et al.

Ive debated taking my copy of Perrys but it tough to find stuff in that book in a short period of time.

I totally didn't see the original post. Sorry.

FW your 2nd and 3rd books might not be allowed in some states, IL for sure those are banned books from the test room.

Your short list looks enough...others would say different but I used the lindburg review manual for most of the exam. For a few questions I had no clue and lindburg was of no help I ventured to others, but very seldom and really they didn't help either. I brought most of my college textbooks with me in addition to your list (minus crane paper). I brought perrys but only used it for a question I had absolutely no clue and just checked to see if it had it, but no dice.

The morning was straight forward problem solving quantitative stuff. The afternoon was more qualitative with a few quantiative and more experience based type questions than I expected.

 

[FusionWhite]

Thanks for the heads up Snick, I suspected that the practice problems and 6 min book may not be allowed, but Ill double check. Thanks.

 

[ironman]

Octave levenspiel, reaction kinetics (sorry the spelling might not be right). The chemical PE manual is REALLY weak on reaction kinetics and this is a good suplement.

I would bring a copy of perrys and I would not bring the unit ops book, in fact you could probably sell that book. I learned to use the index in perrys and I was able to find 3-4 questions where they literally copied the problem straight out of perrys, the format of the equation was even the same on the exam paper.

I also had a quick reference manual that I manually added stuff to and a condensed table of material properties from the back of the hard back reference manual that was spiral bound so it stayed open on the table.

Also a unit conversion hand book with the binding choped so it also stays open on the table, unit conversion was probably what would bite you the most on any PE exam.