Fundamentals of Technology (Atomic number 26) Exam

To become a Professional Engineer, you need to pass the FE Exam. Don't worry! Nosotros'll prove you lot how! Scout this webinar featuring Dr. Vincent Drnevich, Civil Engineering; Dr. Jitesh Panchal, Mechanical Engineering science; and Dr. Greg Jensen, Mechanical Engineering. (Click hither to review the slides).

Why should I take the FE Exam?

Completing the Fe Exam is the first stride to becoming a Licensed Professional Engineer.  It is a valuable credential to have in a competitive chore market. In social club to do engineering consulting work, or to work for certain authorities agencies, y'all need the designation of Professional Engineer. This means you volition have to pass the Iron Exam.

When should I have the FE Exam?

The success rate of the test is highest right before or after completing the Bachelors degree. Purdue ME students have over 90% passing rate when all the technology concepts are still fresh in your mind. The passing rate drops the further you wait subsequently graduation. Hither is a quote from one of the contempo Purdue ME students who took the exam: "It was a very smoothen procedure, and but took almost 4 hours, instead of half-dozen. After taking Purdue classes for 4 years, I needed very lilliputian studying in order to pass the test."

Y'all tin take the exam in any semester, not just their final senior year.  One time your paid registration is consummate, y'all will accept up to 1 year to accept the exam.  You will be able to take the exam in whatsoever land every bit long as the examination site is an canonical site.  Purdue has its own NCEES-approved Pearson VUE Testing Center (SCHL B-42)

You can complete the entire registration procedure on-line.  The price of the FE Exam is $175.  Results of the FE Test will typically be available to y'all 7-ten days afterwards you lot take the test.  However, you lot cannot request your actual Atomic number 26 Certificate until you have received your diploma and forwarded NCEES a re-create.

NEW! The Schoolhouse of Mechanical Engineering will reimburse the entire Atomic number 26 exam fee if you pass the exam before graduating from Purdue ME. The date of test must be prior to your graduation date. Even if you fail the exam, the schoolhouse will reimburse 50% of your exam fee. Yous can just be reimbursed once. To get the reimbursement, contact the business part (mebo@purdue.edu) with a proof of your exam results. For questions, please contact Prof. Jitesh Panchal (panchal@purdue.edu).

What is the Exam Format?

All FE Exams are now only computer-based. This enables the FE Exam to be offered twelvemonth round.  The test consists of 110 questions. The exam engagement time is a maximum half dozen hours long, but includes breaks forth the way.  Yous can encounter the Mechanical Engineering Exam Topics here: https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/FE-Mec-CBT-specs.pdf

How practise I register for the FE Test?

The current process for registering for the Atomic number 26 Exam is completely on-line:

  1. Create an NCEES Account at https://account.ncees.org
  2. Register and pay for the FE Exam
  3. Sign upwards for a date, time and location for the Atomic number 26 Examination.  After yous take successfully registered for the FE Exam, you volition accept one yr to have the FE Examination. Since the exams are now offered twelvemonth-round, look for exam dates available when you register. I would recommend sooner and non wait.  By information has shown that students' performance on the Atomic number 26 Examination degrades rather quickly afterward they go out of college.  You will never be sharper to accept this exam than right now.  The available number of computers at any i time is fifteen computers (not very many).  Remember this is a 6 60 minutes exam, so no more i examinee tin complete the exam on each computer on any given date.

Note: There are other Indiana testing sites, just the closest non-Purdue site is Indianapolis (l miles away).  The total seats available from all Indiana sites is about 60.  It is in your best involvement to register and schedule your FE Exam ASAP, so yous can get your preferred date, time, and location.

Available Resources

Nosotros strongly encourage you to sentinel the Examination-Day Experience Video (less than 5 minutes).  It will give you a great insight on what to wait on the day of the exam.  The security procedures used for the exam are significant.  Information technology will be helpful to y'all to sympathize how information technology works in accelerate.

You should download (or purchase a hardcopy of) the Atomic number 26 Reference Handbook.  This is your one reference document that you will have available during the exam.  Information technology includes all of the bones equations and conversions needed for the various topic areas covered on the Fe Exam.

During the exam y'all volition not receive a hardcopy of the reference handbook, but rather an electronic version that has all of the major sections bookmarked.  Here'southward a quick video (32 seconds) listed beneath to see how the on-Line Reference Handbook works.  Information technology appears fairly intuitive but seeing it in activeness will aid y'all know what to expect.  Following this video, there several other brusk 20-xxx second videos on the FE Reference Handbook and other testing processes.

Finally, there are a number of unlike materials that y'all can purchase to help y'all better prepare for the Iron Exam if you are interested.  These items are not required, merely may be beneficial to yous.

  • FE Review Transmission by Michael R. Lindeburg, PE - the most popular FE Review Transmission.  If you cull to buy ane, you might want to become in with 2 or iii other people so every bit to go along costs down and share the manual, or search the Internet for cheaper copies.
  • Purdue Chi Epsilon FE Review Sessions - In add-on to this resource, Chi Epsilon, the National Civil Technology Honorary Gild, typically organizes several free FE Review Sessions with faculty.
  • YouTube Video Review Sessions - you can find plenty of review sessions but past searching the topic of involvement on YouTube. Try searching something like "Iron Test Math Video Review Sessions" or "FE Examination Statics Video Review Sessions", etc.  Y'all can look through different review sessions until y'all find the style that works best for you.  These are available 24-7-365 (all the time), and they are gratuitous!

The College of Engineering has more detailed data on the FE and FS Exams.