PassTheFEWithMe is a blog dedicated to helping YOU pass your Fundamentals of Engineering (FE, aka EIT) Exam.
They say the best way to learn something is to teach someone else. I am a senior undergraduate student working on my Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. I am registered for the FE exam and, like many of you, I am a little freaked out about it. So I thought one way to motivate myself to study, and do so in a critical and meticulous manner, all the while helping my fellow students (and tricking myself into thinking I'm enjoying it, by disguising it as one of my favorite hobbies: blogging) was to create lessons on each topic as I master them to share what I've learned with you.
Please check out my lessons here and let me know what you think. I'm an undergrad and preparing myself for the exam, so if you find any errors or ways in which I could improve, PLEASE do not hesitate to let me know! And if you find this site helpful, pass the word along to your friends. Thanks!
I would also like to note that I would like this site to be a FREE resource to help as many people as possible. Just like anything in post-secondary education and professional development these days, the Fundamentals of Engineering exam has its mandatory fees. On top of that there is no shortage of review books, classes, practice exams, and other materials that you could spend an unlimited amount of money on. Some of these packages can cost up to $1500! Isn't that ridiculous? My philosophy is that educational opportunity and professional endorsement should be a function of your aptitude, knowledge and dedication; NOT how much money you have to spend. So I feel like I'm doing my part to pitch in to the amount of free information is available on the internet to help you on your journey. That said, I do post ads to hopefully make a little money for my efforts, so if you see something you like, don't hesitate to click on it!
Please note: nothing on this website constitutes the dissemination of information taken from the contents of an exam. I have not yet taken the exam. All of the information here regarding what might be on the exam has been provided by publicly available books, professors, websites, etc. and my own imagination. I am merely presenting this information so that my fellow students and I might learn together.
Thank you for your blog. It helps me a lot preparing for the October 13 test. I have spent 2 months study for the morning session. I am industrial engineer graduate and registered for the general exam since it's been a while I've been out of school. Should I switch to industrial exam for the afternoon exam?
ReplyDeleteHenny, I don't know if its too late to change but I would consider your options carefully. I would look up the list of the topics covered on each exam and be very honest with yourself about which subjects you're better in.
ReplyDeleteI took the civil afternoon session and passed my FE. I took the civil afternoon because I decided I would rather have extra questions on soils, environmental, etc. than advanced questions on physics and thermo and stuff like that. After the exam was done, I felt that the Civil afternoon was slightly tougher than I expected but I was fairly confident in my performance (again, I did pass) and didn't regret my decision.
I can't speak for the industrial afternoon exam, but either way you'll just have to do some self-evaluation. Pick the one with the most topics that you have a better handle on or feel are more intuitive.
One word of caution; if you do switch to the industrial specific afternoon, don't assume that you'll have it easy just because the topics might be your upper-division electives. There are some hard questions on there that will eat you up if you don't study them. For example, on the civil exam there were a lot of structural questions I couldn't handle because I never had to take steel design and concrete design was so far in the past I couldn't dig it out of my memory while I was on the spot. So, use the resources available to you and really try to go over it well. Try to pick up some concepts that you might have missed.