土木人

Received an E-mail from NCEES this morning. The attached PDF file says "Pass" for Fundamental of Engineering.

I took the exam in Seattle Center (where you can see the Space Needle) on April 25th. The room were pacted by almost 600 people. Then brought my kids to the Woodland Zoo on the next day. Too bad that the Mariner was out of town for visit games during that weekend.

Unlike other posters, I did prepare for this exam for a very long time (from the time I got the FE Rapid Review/designated calculator up to the day I took the test, the duration totals one and a half year). Of course, I prepared for this part time (maybe two hours a day and more hours during weekend) and completely stopped when research work load increased.

With a paper published in a journal last month and passing this exam, I am slowly making progress. If anyone would ask me how to prepare FE in the future, esepacially when being out of school for a very long time, I would give the advice different than other posters did: read the FE Rapid Review and cover as many topics as you can (I would say at least 85%), practice all the questions in that book with the consultation with NCEES supplied reference. Most importantly, do not try to memorize unfamiliar equations. *, you should be very confident in knowing which equations/knowledge should be used for solving given questions and in which parts of the NCEES supplied reference you can locate them. Having said that, for fomula/equation you are already very familiar with, do memorize them and use them whenever you are practicing solving questions; this would help you speed up solving certain problems on the exam day so that you can allocate more time on other questions requiring more thinking or flipping through the NCEES reference.