Study Material for PE Exam
Study Material for PE Exam
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I'm going to be taking the infamous PE exam this spring. I am looking for a good book to use for studying.
Can anyone recommend one to me?
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This site has some good into, as does www.ppi2pass.com
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David
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Oh yeah, forgot to mention
Mechanical PE Test
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1. Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual, Lindeburg
2. NCEES Mechanical PE practice exam
3. Steam tables, Keenan and Keyes et. al (English units)
4. ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals
5. Cameron Hydraulic Data OR Crane TP410-Flow of Fluids through valves, fittings and pipe
6. Mark's Standard Handbook of Mechanical Engineering
In addition, these books come in handy:
7. Solutions manual for MERM (#1 above)
8. Gas Tables, Keenan and Kaye (English units)
9. A heat transfer textbook
10. A thermodynamics textbook
11. Roark's formulas for Stress and Strain
12. A mechanical design book
You will use #1 for almost every question, the other #2-#6 you will use on 2-3 questions each. Start watching Ebay right now and you can find some good deals on a few of these once in a while. You can also find some at the library. If you buy all of them, it can get expensive. Checking them out from the library will allow you to see how good they are before you purchase. I purchased all of these books (or already had them), and still have many because they are excellent references. Good luck!
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I would say Cameron AND Crane 410 on itme 5.
My focus was fluids so the HVAC stuff was pretty basic and Lindburg worked for that, I never opened the ASHRAE Handbook.
I took Marks, but only used it once (didn't find what I needed).
I didn't bring the Practice exam or any of 7-12. Passed on the first shot so Lindburg, Cameron Hydraulics, Crane 410, and Marks was just right for me.
David
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The Kaplan, Mechanical Engineering license review, 7th edition is full of errors!!! There are mistakes with units, formulas have the numbers transposed, and they missed a zero here and there on some numbers. Some of the examples even state numbers and then the solution use different numbers. The solutions are vague on how they are brought about and there is very little use of units in the solutions so you are never really sure how they get the solution they do.
After a month of studying I got sick of the Kaplan books and bought Lindeburg. The Lindeburg are twice the price but are infinitely better. I would recommend spending the money on the Lindeburg books. If you have not opened the Kaplan books yet, return them! I cannot return mine since I started correcting the errors as I found them. One page has as many as 5 errors on it.
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I agree that does give the person studying a different level to learn on but the frustration became too mcuh. the biggest problem was that I was always second guessing the book, I would think "Is this formula right? or did they use the right number in this equation?" The reliability of the solutions was disapearing and that ended up leaving me even more frustrated.
Swivel63,
If you have the mind set to study like this, more power to you, and good luck on the test, if you live in NM I will see you in April.
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I bought a host of books from ppi2pass.com and used perhaps half of them. The Lindeberg books are a must, and the reference manual sits on my technical shelf beside me along with Perry's, Marks, Camerson, my Crane 410, and Kern's Heat Transfer book.
I found that one of the first things you need to do prior to sitting down to study is take a long hard look at what you know and especially what you DON'T know. If you flat out don't get something, don't waste time trying to learn it. That's an academic exercise left for your free time, not for eating up precious PE exam study time Following the 80/20 rule, reinforce the 80% that you are competent in, and worry about the 20% after you've mastered your 80%.
With regards to what to take, the more you learn up front, the less digging you'll have to do! You'll hear stories about people bringing trunks full of books, and I witnessed it. I brought in a single backpack with Lindeberg's ME reference, the guide and the study questions, Perry's Chem E handbook, Mark's ME handbook, Cameron's, Crane's 410, my college fluids book, my college thermo book (Bernake, I think) and that's about it.
Good luck!
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Erik
MO P.E.
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i'm just waiting on someone to tell me there are more books for the structural 2 other than the famous kaplan books and the ncees book. i just want more problems to do. best way to study is repitition. we should already have most of the basic stuff down, so from there it's just application.
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I have Cameron and Crane, and will take them with me, but I am more used to the nomenclature of the "NCEES EIT Guide" book.
Any comments?
Thanks.
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More important than a good reference is your familiarity with it. That is, USE IT (or more likely, THEM) as you study for the exam, hopefully working through many practice problems. In my case, I had key chapters, tables, etc, marked with post-its.
I know some folks use a relatively small number of references, others MANY. As loing as you are familier with each, it doesn't matter. The key is knowing what to look for, and where to find it.
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You can take the EIT equation book. I took it (I took everything I owned), but didn't use it. I made my own equation booklet as I worked through the MERM chapters. That always helps me to learn, and I prefer things in my own form. I'm also an obsessive studier, so others might not want to take the time to make a note sheet. . .
Also imperitive is to mark the MERM sections with tabs and know where the important tables are in the appendix.
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DO NOT take any reference you are not at least somewhat familiar with, you will waste time looking through it for information. Do not be afraid to take any reference you think might help you, there will be a few obscure problems and that one reference you never thought you would use may come in handy but resist the urge to check out every reference book you can from the library and take it to the exam because you will get overwhelmed and waste time if you have not used your references in school or at work to be familiar with the layout. Referring to my previous post at the top (for mechanical PE exam), if you have the top 6 books and some of the others, and you spend a fair amount of time studying, you will do fine. I also took the NCEES FE exam equation book but I don't think I used it. Good luck!
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Like most new engineers, I have a burning curiousity to buy them and see what is in them so I can learn and be prepared. Is this a bit overzealous?
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The MERM has just been updated to a new edition so it is unlikely it will be updated again within 3 years. Crane will not change and Cameron might be but the information will not change significantly. You would not want to start "studying" now but definitely start looking for a good deal on these references (ebay or a bookstore) and get them (don't forget the steam tables by keenan, et al). Start looking through them and using them and you will be way ahead of the game when exam time comes. You also will spread out the cost of your references so it's not such a big hit all at once.
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See jpankask comments above yours.
I would get those reference books now, start using them, get familar with them.
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And I thought I saw steam tables in Crane. (My company has crane, but I am likely going to get a personal copy as well) Are the steam tables in Crane limited compared to other printings of the steam table?
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Mine reimbursed me for all my study materials as part of their education reimbursement program, so you might want to look into that.
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Brand new, the best deal on the MERM will come from PPI, the publisher. Used, they will show up on ebay occassionally at a pretty good price (50-60% of new). There will be a rash of them right after people start getting their pass letters. You need to watch that you are getting the edition you want and it's in good shape. Also, a local university library may have some of the references you want without purchasing them; such as cameron, shigley's, steam tables, etc.
Regarding the steam tables in Crane or Cameron, they will probably work for the exam with a little interpolation or approximation necessary for some problems. If you get the Steam Tables by Keenan, you will never have to interpolate, just get your values and go. However, if you look at the NCEES "practice" exam, you will see that the answers are seldom close enough that you need to know the exact enthalpy (or energy, etc.) to the decimal place. So, yes you can probably use Crane but if you can pick up a cheap copy of 1969 Steam Tables (the newest version in english units is still for sale for $250 new!) from ebay ($5-$10) or a library, it is nice to have.
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I bought their books & videos to study for the Mechanical ENgineering PE exam in NY. The ASME books were full of the same sort of errors that the Kaplan books were accused of having....missing tables, tansposition errors, shifted decimals, etc. It was so bad that I called ASME and complained. They said if I could write them up an eratta on the engineering economics section (personally, I gave up on the books after dealing only with that section), they would reimburse my cost. So I did....and they did.
Of course, by writing up the eratta, I learned engineering economics so well that I breezed through it on the exam! (ASME had gone as far as to say "Eng Ec" wouldn't BE on the exam. It most certainly was.
Mind you, this was over 7 years ago...