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Any other OT engineers bringing a small library with them to PE exam Friday?
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:12 am
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:12 am
Taking civil/structural this Friday.
Anyone else taking a small library with them? NCEES is telling me to bring nothing short of:
Steel Construction Manual, 14th edition
IBC 2012
NDS 2012 (Wood)
ACI 318-11 (Concrete)
ACI 530-11 (Masonry)
OSHA 1910 & 1926
ASCE 7-10 (for seismic, snow, and wind loads)
PCI Design Manual (Precast & Prestressed concrete)
AASHTO 7th Edition (Bridges, 2000+ pages)
Thats aside from my notes, CERM and SERM.
Do I need all of these or am I doing it wrong? My fear is that if I decide I dont need one of these, I will surely be asked to look up some table or calculate some vague value.
Thanks
Anyone else taking a small library with them? NCEES is telling me to bring nothing short of:
Steel Construction Manual, 14th edition
IBC 2012
NDS 2012 (Wood)
ACI 318-11 (Concrete)
ACI 530-11 (Masonry)
OSHA 1910 & 1926
ASCE 7-10 (for seismic, snow, and wind loads)
PCI Design Manual (Precast & Prestressed concrete)
AASHTO 7th Edition (Bridges, 2000+ pages)
Thats aside from my notes, CERM and SERM.
Do I need all of these or am I doing it wrong? My fear is that if I decide I dont need one of these, I will surely be asked to look up some table or calculate some vague value.
Thanks
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Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:15 am to NYNolaguy1
You think you're smart or some shite?
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:16 am to ThatMakesSense
quote:
You think you're smart or some shite?
Obviously he isn't or he wouldn't need to bring all those books.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:17 am to NYNolaguy1
This is what I brought for the Transportation one last year 
It was heavy
Good luck.
It was heavy
Good luck.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:17 am to NYNolaguy1
Can you break from the demographics in your classes out of curiosity?
Percentage male/female
Percentage white / Arab / Indian / East Asian (non Muslim/Indian)
Just curious thanks
Percentage male/female
Percentage white / Arab / Indian / East Asian (non Muslim/Indian)
Just curious thanks
This post was edited on 10/24/17 at 9:18 am
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:18 am to NYNolaguy1
Bring them all, people roll in with hand trucks and luggage full of books. It's not unusual. If you don't know exactly where what you need is though they won't do much good.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:18 am to LNCHBOX
quote:
It was heavy
Thats about what I was thinking.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:20 am to ThatMakesSense
quote:
You think you're smart or some shite?
We all know engineers are dumb as rocks and just copy word for word from a book. Its the only way we survive.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:21 am to NYNolaguy1
Haven't taken the PE yet but the FE had an electronic catalog.
PE doesn't?
PE doesn't?
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:21 am to SirWinston
quote:
Can you break from the demographics in your classes out of curiosity?
Percentage male/female
Percentage white / Arab / Indian / East Asian (non Muslim/Indian)
Just curious thanks
When I graduated it was like 9:1 guys to girls, surprisingly mostly white, with some people of Persian and Latino descent.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:21 am to NYNolaguy1
You said it. Seems it's just 'plug and chug'.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:22 am to NYNolaguy1
You will not have time to use all of that. Take a couple key resources. I took water resources, which isnt quite as table dependent, but the time factor will be the issue. You wont finish if you spend an inordinate amount of time looking up stuff. Work everything first that you are 100% sure about and then come back to stuff you are unsure you know or those which you need to search thru your resources.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:23 am to 50_Tiger
quote:
Haven't taken the PE yet but the FE had an electronic catalog.
Yeah, if you go to the NCEES page theres a list of references that could be called on. PE is open book.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:23 am to NYNolaguy1
Prepare for lots of jealousy in here......
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:25 am to LSUengr
quote:
You will not have time to use all of that. Take a couple key resources. I took water resources, which isnt quite as table dependent, but the time factor will be the issue. You wont finish if you spend an inordinate amount of time looking up stuff. Work everything first that you are 100% sure about and then come back to stuff you are unsure you know or those which you need to search thru your resources.
Right, thats what I am trying to avoid. I am only bringing stuff that I could see myself opening and looking at, and knowing where to find it.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:28 am to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:30 am to The Mick
quote:
Prepare for lots of jealousy in here......
Not jealous at all. I did it MANY years ago. Two months later (back then it took that long), opening that letter that started out with "Congratulations" was was probably second in line only to that first piece of arse.
Exam day is just a miserable day.
My advice: Take the books/manuals you are familiar with.
I've never heard of nor can imagine how or why they'd bother working in questions referencing the OSHA manual.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:30 am to LSUengr
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You will not have time to use all of that
Don't agree with you here. I needed every book I brought. There were several questions tat were "look up" questions that were basically free points if you had the book. You'd feel pretty silly if you didn't pass by a question just because you didn't have a book.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:35 am to NolaAg04
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Bring them all, people roll in with hand trucks and luggage full of books. It's not unusual. If you don't know exactly where what you need is though they won't do much good.
my good friend took it years ago and said many people brought in small hand trucks to carry all of their material.
Posted on 10/24/17 at 9:42 am to bayou choupique
It's called a dolly. Thought you engineers were smart?
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