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My how time flies! It's been 4 years since I finished my undergrad. One must have 4 years of work experience after college and have successfully completed the FE exam before they can take the PE (professional engineering) exam. I'm about to submit my application (and $415 in testing fees) for the PE which I will take in April. So, wish me luck as I have a LOT of studying to do over the next 5 months.

Also, I have been working towards my masters in civil engineering (construction management) since 2007 and am finally finishing up. I turned in my final research paper and I have one more class meeting in my last college class ever. I decided to do the graduation ceremony since I didn't do it for my under grad and my parents were bummed. Ive got my cap and gown all ready to go and I've got a hotel booked in Stillwater OK. Going to hit the bars one last time as a college student (I couldn't resist)

Congratulations and good luck on your PE exam. I'm about to retire after 30+ years in construction management, and I can tell you things have changed a lot since I started. I used to spend most of my time actually involved in building things, but now it's all about the paperwork. That, and inept contractors!

My hard hat is off to you for completing your engineering education. It's probably the hardest thing you'll ever do. Enjoy the accomplishment!

Nice job! I've never been able to push myself through anything even close to that long-term. Good luck studying for the PE.

Congratulations! Here's to you acing the PE exam.

Best of luck with those tests David.

$415 isn't that bad considering an auto mechanic has to spend about that to complete all of the ASE tests.

Yeah, it could be worse.

Good luck and happy studying?

Studying is going well so far. Exam is on April 13th so I'm down to about 2 months. I've got a stack of papers about 9" high of all of the problems that I have worked so far, gathered TONS of references, tabbed the hell out of some of my books, etc. I've been working a lot of problems in both the morning breadth and afternoon geotech depth module that I will be taking.

I'm attending a PE training course in Dallas for 3 weekends spread across march. I'm really looking forward to getting some benefit from this class. I'll be making the 5 hour drive down on Wednesday night,coming back Sunday night (class is from 9-5 thur, fri, sat, and sunday- repeated 3 times).

My goal is to be so over prepared for this exam that I walk out mad at myself for wasting so much time studying.

So far I am on track but have a lot more to go.

I'm going to sit down this saturday and take an 8 hour mock exam. The organization that puts on the test sells a sample exam which I bought a month or two back but have yet to crack open as I've been waiting until I feel a little more prepared and can do an actual test run with it.

Wow, keep up the hard work!! I'm confident it will be rewarded.

Excellent! Keep going, David!