Professional Engineering

Prof. Frank Merat, P.E.

EIT (Engineer in Training) Exam Review - CWRU Review Session

• Review problems - special condensed version of following notes for CWRU student review sessions (PDF, 155k)

FE PE Exam Review Notes

• The following are the notes I use for teaching the Fundamentals of Engineering and the Professional Engineering exam review classes for the Cleveland Engineering Society. The recent classes have been taught at Cuyahoga Community College East. If you have been out of school for several years you may want to consider taking consider these classes. Many employers will pay for them.

EIT (Engineer in Training) Exam Review

• About the Exam - breakdown of exam question distribution, exam format (PDF, 24k)
• DC Circuits - Ohms's Law, KCL, KVL, voltage dividers, current dividers, Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits (PDF,156k)
• Transients - capacitors, inductors, terminal characteristics of capacitors and inductors, differential equations, boundary conditions(PDF, 72k)
• Power - single and three phase circuits, delta-wye circuits, complex power, power factor correction (NO LONGER ON EIT EXAM) (PDF, 60k)
• AC Circuits - rms measurements, ac waveforms, reactance and impedance, resonance (PDF, 136k)
• Electronics - diode circuits, operational amplifiers (PDF, 164k)
• Computers - number systems, flow charting, simple programs, computer architecture, boolean and digital logic, spreadsheets (PDF, 60k)

PE (Principles & Practices) Exam Review (New)

These notes are for the new exam format which consists of a multiple-choice breadth exam followed by an afternoon depth exam selected by the student in either the power, electronics control and communications, or computer areas.

• Part 1 (2 nights) - Kirchoff's Laws, Thevenin and Norton, power and energy calculations, transient analysis, Fourier analysis, transfer functions including Bode plots, complex impedance, Laplace transforms, solid state device characteristics and ratings, transducers/sensors, conductivity/resistivity, semiconductors (limited), frequency response, frequency selective filters, power factor correction, transformers, small signal and large signal analysis, active networks and filters, two-port theory, power supplies, oscillators, characteristic equations (PDF, 724k)
• Part 2 (1 night) - A/D/A's, diodes, operational amplifiers, BJT's and FET's (PDF, 3.6M)

PE (Principles & Practices) Exam Review (Old)

These notes are for the old exam format and are only here for additional study materials.

• About the old exam format - contact information, subject distribution (PDF, 8k)
• Chapter 2 - Linear circuits (PDF, 280k)
• Chapter 3 - Waveforms, power, measurement (PDF, 176k)
• Chapter 4 - Time and frequency response (PDF, 176k)

PE (Principles & Practices) Power Systems (Old)

These notes are for the afternoon power section of the old format exam, and are based upon the Electrical Engineering Reference Manual, 4th Edition by Raymond Yarbrough.

• About the old exam format - contact information, subject distribution (PDF, 8kB)
• Chapter 5 - Three phase power systems (PDF, 1.82 MB)
• Chapter 6 - Transmission lines (PDF, 2.92 MB)
• Chapter 7 - Rotating machines (PDF, 1.13 MB)
• Chapter 5 - Worked solutions to some of the Chapter 5 problems (PDF, 167kB)
• Transformers - Some miscellaneous notes about transformers (PDF, 289kB)

Related Links

• National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. These are the people who write the excam and usually have the latest information about the exam on their Web site.
• Fundamentals of Engineering Reference Handbook - The NCEES has the latest handbook on their Web site in downloadable PDF format. This is also a recommended reference for the Principals and Practices exam. You can download either the entire handbook or selected portions.
• Ohio's Engineers and Surveyors Board - This is the Ohio organization responsible for administering the exams and who actually certifies you as a PE in the state of Ohio. This site will have the official dates and also has the passing rates.