Anyone else take the fundamentals of engineering (FE) exam yesterday?

[leright]

Anyone? I took it. I think I passed. We will see in 2 months. I took the general exam in the afternoon. The morning section was a breeze but the afternoon section was kinda difficult for me. I am an EE and I am bad at some of the ME stuff. Unfortunately, the exam seems to be skewed toward mechanical engineering subjects.

I walked out of the exam room with like 30 minutes to spare for both the AM and PM sections. I wish I would have used that time to go back and try to work some of the problems that I had to guess on. Oh well. I just wanted to get the heck out of there.

If I passed then I need to acquire 4 years of engineering experience and then take the Professional Engineer (PE) exam. Then I will have an engineering license.

 

[teknodude]

Yea I took it at the exam site in Pomona yesterday. I thought there was a lot of mechanics ( strength of materials) type of questions on both the morning and afternoon general test. I saw some fluids, and thermodynamics questions. I only saw 1 heat transfer problem and it was ridiculously easy. The weight of the amount of topics is probably different for each time they administer the exam.

 

[Quincy]

How do you become eligible to take this exam?

 

[Astronuc]

How do you become eligible to take this exam?

One usually is enrolled in an accredited engineering program. Usually the earliest one would take the FE is during the senior year. One simply registers to take the test.

http://www.nspe.org/index.html

http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html

http://www.nspe.org/Education/ExamReviewandPrep/index.html

 

[leright]

Update: I passed the exam. Now all I need to do is work for 4 years and take the PE exam.

 

[Astronuc]

Update: I passed the exam. Now all I need to do is work for 4 years and take the PE exam.

Congratulations! Keep up the good work!

 

[waht]

Update: I passed the exam. Now all I need to do is work for 4 years and take the PE exam.

and in another 4 years after that a PF exam

 

[minger]

Do note that typically the licensing boards will count any type of co-op experience as work experience. Also, make sure that your profession requires/wants/desires a PE license. While common for civil engineers, I'm not sure how important it is for EE's, but it seems like a lot of work just to write John Doe, P.E.