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SE Exam Books Required?

SE Exam Books Required?

SE Exam Books Required?

(OP)
So I’ve been studying for the SE exam and am spending what little money I have on the millions of codes referenced in the exam. For anyone who has taken the exam, are the following codes required, or is there a way around them

AISC Seismic Design Manual: I have AISC 341-10 and don’t know if I can afford to drop another $175 on the manual.
AISI – Cold Formed Steel Design Manual: I just flat out don’t own this one. Costs $125 new.

These are both books that I want to have eventually, but it is getting pretty costly as I’ve already dropped over $1,000 in the last year for PE and SE study materials.

RE: SE Exam Books Required?

I feel for you. And for your sake I hope you can take and pass the exams before the next round of code updates is issued.

RE: SE Exam Books Required?

For the cold formed design manual - there is most likely 1 question per day in the morning. Try to borrow but probably not super critical IMO.

For Seismic design manual - MUST HAVE in my opinion. There are great examples in this manual that will help you during lateral afternoon and morning.
I thought they still use the 05 version of this, no?

EIT
www.HowToEngineer.com

RE: SE Exam Books Required?

(OP)
Thanks. The sample exams don't appear to have much in the way of CFMF problems, so what you say makes sense. I may try to print out some fastener values/design aids and bind them.

The seismic design manual required is either the 2006 or 2008 printing. I may have to buy that one.

So much money.

RE: SE Exam Books Required?

You may be able to borrow a text or two from another local SE that recently passed the exams. Also, the committees that publish these standards & codes often distribute a "public review" copy of a standard before publishing the official copy, so contributing members can make revisions and find errors. PDF's of those review versions may or may not linger around online... just remember they may have an error or two that wouldn't be in the official version. When Googling the operator filetype: can be a great ally.

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