PE Exam a week from this Friday

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<p>Flying out to Ontario, California, to take the PE exam a week from this Friday. I’ll be taking next week off from work to do my last-minute studying, then flying out there a week from today to get situated.</p>

<p>Send good juju…</p>

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<p>Good luck, aibarr!! Be sure to post a report about the exam. DH passed the CA exam the first time, and I bet you will, too.</p>

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<p>Good luck on the test aibarr!</p>

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<p>May I ask what is the PE exam?</p>

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<p>Best of luck to you!</p>

<p>The PE exam is the test that qualifies you to become a professional engineer. Before you can sit for the test, you have to have 4 years of qualifying engineering experience (actually varies by the state you’re seeking the license from).</p>

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<p>You have to have at least 4 years usually; in some states, it’s less if you’ve got a masters degree or something. California’s QE requirement is something like 1 year if you have an MS.</p>

<p>I graduated from college in '04 and got my masters in '06, so I’ve been procrastinating a wee bit… ;)</p>

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<p>^Oh, that’s not too bad! I was about the same. Got my MS in '86 and passed the PE in '90. And then got laid off 4 days later!</p>

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<p>^ LOL got laid off 4 days later? LOL</p>

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<p>^Yep! My husband and I worked for the same firm (cubicles across the aisle from each other). The company decided to ax our entire division, so we were both laid off the same day. Pre-kids, thank goodness. We went to the beach, and then to Quebec City for a week. Another firm hired both of us within a few weeks.</p>

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<p>Yeah I think most states, an MS counts towards 1 year of experience and a PhD counts towards another year, so you still need a couple more years when you are done if you have an advanced degree or two.</p>

<p>Good luck on the exam! Sooner or later I will take it, but I am still stuck in school until probably 2014 at the rate things are going, haha.</p>

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<p>Good luck, aibarr!</p>

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<p>Uhhhh, I’m hoping that I’m too entrenched in the project that I’m coordinating for that lightning to strike me, too…!! </p>

<p>(If they were gonna lay me off, they’d have done it by now. Also, my boss’s boss’s boss probably wouldn’t have e-mailed me the other day to make sure that they’d put me through their project management training course already… Phew, saved for another day…!)</p>

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<p>Yeah, that was a freak accident, I think! It’s good you have a project. We were at loose ends and wondering how they could keep everybody on.</p>

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<p>Good luck! You’ll do great.</p>

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<p>Good luck to you! I hope you do well!</p>

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<p>Good Luck. Avoid too much exercise just before the exam. You do want have peak performance just before the exam. </p>

<p>PE =Professional Engineer. Normally applies to Civil, Structural, Architectual.
Sometimes but wholly unknown is the Physical Exercise (PE).</p>

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<p>Good luck, aibarr! Remember to b.r.e.a.t.h.e… ;)</p>

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<p>GOOOOOOOD LUCK. IF YOU DON’T PASS I WILL THROW CUP CAKES AND YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM AT YOU!</p>

<p>jkjk :slight_smile: I know you will pass it.</p>

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<p>Just remember not to talk about any of the questions from the exam online. A few years ago, somebody on a different forum was disqualified because he posted a question from the test and they (NCEES I assume?) tracked him down…</p>

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<p>^Wow, I didn’t know that. I didn’t have to worry about that in 1990, lol!</p>