Fundamentals of Engineering Exam

[MasterOfKtulu109]

i took it in october and passed.

advice: study what you know pretty well. don't waste time trying to learn the hardest stuff that you barely learned when you took the class. if you know math, statistics, and economics really well, that's like 30% of the test right there (and this is the easiest stuff on the test). i didn't review dynamics, fluids, or chemistry (the hardest stuff) and still passed.

you only need a 50% to pass, and theres a lot of really easy stuff on the test. a lot of questions test your ability to find the right equation in the manual they give you (some problems are simply putting the given values into the right equation and letting your calculator do all the work).

 

[JohnCU]

i took it and passed and didn't study shit. i even went and had a couple of shots at lunch to relax with. 4 years now to get my PE.

if anything, i wish i had remembered some of the logic stuff from EE for the test, they had a number of those questions on there.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
Public interest => PE. Nuclear power plant: they want someone with certification. Makes sense to me.

what? i work at in the engineering department of a nuke plant and most people there don't have a PE.

 

[bonkers325]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
Public interest => PE. Nuclear power plant: they want someone with certification. Makes sense to me.

what? i work at in the engineering department of a nuke plant and most people there don't have a PE.

because most of the people arent signing the dotted line, which is reserved for licensed PEs

 

[alphatarget1]

get a formula book from NCEES and find out where everything is. It's multiple choice so it shouldn't be too hard.

me: passed it 1st time without studying

 

[PowerEngineer]

It's hard to know what twists and turns your engineering career might take, so my advice to graduating engineers (other than CS) is go ahead and take the FoE test soon. Some of those fundamentals can slip away pretty fast if you don't use them (e.g. thermo).

I landed in a job where having a PE meant a higher salary, and then took the FoE and PE on back-to-back days. The FoE was MUCH harder for me than the PE.

Think about it...