Recent content by JagdishRawat

Dear all, Congratulations to all new PEs who cleared the October 2015 PE exam in Metallurgical and Materials discipline. Pass rate for this year was exceptionally high (83% for first time takers). I am collecting pass rates in metallurgical disciplines for several years. This year's results...

I do not know that how much do you know about Hypothesis testing. You have to establish your null hypothesis and alternate hypothesis. Based on the language of the problem, you can safely say that your null hypothesis is - Ho (null hypothesis) = Means from both the machines are equal. H1 (...

The solution for Thermo by Gaskell was posted on a website. I think that a search should bring that up. It appeared to me that either a professor or a student solved the problems and posted them online. Why do you need ISBN number? If you are trying to purchase the books, amazon can help. Try...

Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing' by Poirier and Geiger is a good book and it comes with solution manual. Dieter is also a good book and it has answer keys at the end. Callister is also a good book but the problems are easy to solve and answer keys are given at the end. Thermo book...

@ NCSU I mostly covered the problems given at the end of the chapters in the books. I did not use TMS study guide till the last week before exam. TMS study guide was for me to test myself. It was not to prepare for the exam. I passed the FE exam in 2010. It also helped me out in basic...

To mtlgst1: How can i help you? Met1Co

Colorado does not require you to have PE references.

Forgot to mention that i also owned books on Statistics. I started studying somewhere in January or February 2011 but did not catch the speed till last week of May. After May, i was quite regular. There are several things necessary to pass this exam but the most important is HARD WORK. Things...

Books i had - 1) Corrosion Engineering by Fontana Comment - Great book on corrosion. One can not call himself a metallurgist without reading this book. 2) Thermodynamics by Gaskell Comment - It is also a good book to solve problems but it might not act as a good book to clear fundamentals...

Congratulations...Mr. Successful.

PE pass rate in metallurgical PE exam - October 2011 - 53% and 46% October 2010 - 64% and 50% October 2009 - 56% and 33% October 2008 - 56% and 56% October 2007 - 52% and 45% The second % number is for repeat takers.

Dear all: I am very thankful to all of you. With your blessings, i passed the PE exam. Thank you. Met1Co

First of all - Thanks to all of you folks for guiding me in this process. Last 5 to 6 months were long, hard and full of frustration but i enjoyed it. I did end up studying 450-500 hours for this exams. I felt that the exam was easy. In spite of lots of frustration during preparation...

For Sample # 2 - Average for the mean chart = 23.5 (you can read it on the y axis of the mean chart). Average for the range chart = 0.6 (you can read it on the y axis of the range chart) UCL for the mean chart = Average of the means + (A2*mean of R chart). and LCL for the mean chart =...

Subject:- Moody diagram in the Poirier/Geiger TP book. This diagram can be found on Page # 80. It is Figure 3.2. Is this Moody diagram wrong? I was trying to solve a TP problem from my FE book. I was looking for the friction factor for Re value of 310000. The Poirier book says that it is...