ya i know right...it's a piece of ****..but luckily i bought it used here for $150 and sold it back to Amazon for $147 credit
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lundy
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I'm waiting on untabbing all my references and selling my books back until I KNOW I passed. They'll be gathering dust until then. It'll be nice to get some cash back from them. If I pass my company will reimburse me the 250$ and 90$ fee I think it was for registering for the class as well.
Ken PE 3.1
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I burned my college economics book after I passes just for fun!
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For Mechanical Systems and Materials I brought:
MERM (Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual)
MERM Practice Problems
Shigley's Machine Design
Lindburgh's Practice Exam
NCEES Practice Exam
Mark's Handbook
Machinery Handbook
My College Thermo Textbook (because I didn't like the thermo section in the MERM)
I highlighted the books that I actually used during the test in bold. Note that I was able to use the MERM for probably 95 percent of the questions on the test. If I had to do it again, I'd bring the same books. Even though I didn't use the other three, I could see them potentially being needed if I retook the test.
MERM (Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual)
MERM Practice Problems
Shigley's Machine Design
Lindburgh's Practice Exam
NCEES Practice Exam
Mark's Handbook
Machinery Handbook
My College Thermo Textbook (because I didn't like the thermo section in the MERM)
I highlighted the books that I actually used during the test in bold. Note that I was able to use the MERM for probably 95 percent of the questions on the test. If I had to do it again, I'd bring the same books. Even though I didn't use the other three, I could see them potentially being needed if I retook the test.
ptatohed
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Knowing which references people took with them to the exam isn't nearly as beneficial as knowing which references they found useful during the exam.
Just Some Guy P.E.
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The three I listed were useful to me on the NCEES practice exam, but I wound up not referencing anything outside of the Lindeburg MERM on exam day.
LWhitson2
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Primarily I used the NCEES FE Reference Manual. On a couple of very application specific problems I used the MERM due to it having specialized equations, but that was no more than 4 or 5 problems total. Moran and Shapiro was purely used for my thermo tables because I knew the book like the back of my hand. Same with Fox and McDonald.
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Chemical.
Used often:
1. Perry's 8th edition
2. Steam tables by Keenan & Keyes
3. CHERM by Lindeberg
4. Lindeberg engineering conversions
Used a couple of times:
5. Review course slides
6. Oxford dictionary of chemical engineering.
Didn't use at all:
7. Heat and mass balances by Incropera
8. ASME steam tables SI units
9. FE Reference Manual
The dictionary wasn't that helpful but I did find definitions/equations needed for at least 1 or 2 questions.
As someone indicated earlier, I similarly wanted to be sure I wasn't sorry for not bringing a needed reference.
Used often:
1. Perry's 8th edition
2. Steam tables by Keenan & Keyes
3. CHERM by Lindeberg
4. Lindeberg engineering conversions
Used a couple of times:
5. Review course slides
6. Oxford dictionary of chemical engineering.
Didn't use at all:
7. Heat and mass balances by Incropera
8. ASME steam tables SI units
9. FE Reference Manual
The dictionary wasn't that helpful but I did find definitions/equations needed for at least 1 or 2 questions.
As someone indicated earlier, I similarly wanted to be sure I wasn't sorry for not bringing a needed reference.
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