<p>Would one of you explain the PE and FE exams, how they effect a career and the process a new grad from engineering school in would follow to be able to take and pass these eams.</p>
<p>You take the FE exam during or right after school. It has a general section that all engineers complete, as well as a section unique to your discipline. Most people who take the FE spend months studying, and there are numerous resources to help. In and of itself, completing the FE exam does nothing more than advance you towards the PE.</p>
<p>Once you complete the FE exam you need to spend four years working as an engineer supervised by a PE, after which you yourself can take the PE exam (like the FE exam, harder in some ways I hear) and become a PE. If you do not have a PE to mentor you for 4 years, you cannot take the exam. As a PE you are able to sign off on certain legal documents - depending on your discipline, this may be meaningless (most fields, actually) or crucial (mostly Civil and Architectural) to advancement.</p>
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