NY PE Experience Requirements

[banditxgbn]

I am currently applying to take the Electrical PE in New York. I would like to get some advice on some of the key components I need to mention about my experience. Is it necessary for PE's to sign off my experience?

A little about myself: Graduated with BS EE (Abet), passed FE, been working as a project manager for construction firms for 5 years now. I do a lot of field design and shop drawing reviews.

Thank you.

 

[EnvEngineer]

The basic requirements are the same nationwide, you need to go the the board web site and see what they call qualifiying experience. The key is you must have your PE sponcer sign off on parts of your experices that meet the board requirements. That portion that the sign for must add up to the years of qualifing experience. Good news is field expericene " Management the installation of Engineering Structures" is good experience. That is to say while you were in the field reviewing these drawings you were making sure that the plans and specs were being followed.

 

[bobbyi11771]

I am currently applying to take the Electrical PE in New York. I would like to get some advice on some of the key components I need to mention about my experience. Is it necessary for PE's to sign off my experience?
A little about myself: Graduated with BS EE (Abet), passed FE, been working as a project manager for construction firms for 5 years now. I do a lot of field design and shop drawing reviews.

Thank you.

I had similar experience as you and I've been approved for the PE in NY. I had an ME degree and passed the EIT 12 yrs ago, but wound up working for an electrical contractor as a project manager for 12 years. My sponsor was not a PE... did not need to be for electrical construction, but the accepted his recommendation. In typing out the details of my experience, I wrote about individual projects that I managed (I took the biggest ones with the most "engineering' such as field changes to contract drawings and such) and made sure to point out that I was project manager responisble for overall implementation of the contract drawings and specs to make work in real world of NEC codes and physical space. I pinpointed "engineering" details needed for each project such as review of plans and specs, developing working drawings to actually build what was requested, field changes (change orders) to correct deficiences with contract documents and things of that nature.

If NY accepted an ME with a complete electrical construction background, I'm sure that they will let you in.... just be specific in detailing your projects. My details were such that each project took from a half page to a full page to describe in detail... also I used Adobe to scan the form and type in all of my descriptions... if they can't read your writing, they might be quicker to toss it out.

Hope my two cents were helpful to you.... Now all I have to do is pass the PE... and I'm taking it in mechanical... even with all my real life electrical experience, I don't have the technical background to test in it.