Starting to stress the hell out over this damn exam now. Gonna be the toughest test i’ve ever taken, anyone else on here have to take it? How’d you do? I guess only 35% pass it their first time :crap:
what is an EIT exam?
In the United States, the Fundamentals of Engineering exam (also known as the FE exam) is the first of two examinations engineers must pass in order to be certified as a Professional Engineer. Another short term for the exam, EIT, comes from the former official name for the exam, Engineer In Training. It is open to anyone who has a degree in engineering or a related field, or is in their last year of engineering at an ABET-accredited university. Some state licensure boards permit students to take it prior to their final year, and numerous states allow those who have never attended an approved program to take the exam if they have a state-determined number of years of work experience in engineering. Michigan allows anyone to take the exam. The exam is administered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES).
The exam is eight hours and is split into a four-hour morning session and a four-hour afternoon session. The morning session is a general exam for which all examinees must sit. The afternoon session is more discipline oriented, and is chosen from among: chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, or general engineering (similar in content to the morning exam).
The topics covered by the general exam are covered in the “fundamental” courses taken by all engineering students, and include (as of 2004):
Chemistry
Computers
Dynamics
Economics
Electrical circuits
Ethics
Fluid mechanics
Material science
Mathematics
Mechanics of materials
Statics
Thermodynamics
A scaled score of 70 is required to pass the exam.
The sections are scored independently. If all the questions in the morning session are answered correctly, but a score of 65 is received in the afternoon, the examinee would still fail the exam.
Those who pass the exam are designated Engineers In Training or given an equivalent designation, such as Engineer Intern by their state’s licensure board for engineers, and are partway through the certification process. After completing an apprenticeship (the length of which is set by state law and based on the type of degree received) an EIT may qualify to take the Professional Engineer (PE) exam. Certification is awarded upon successful completion of the PE exam. The standard time of apprenticeship under a Professional Engineer is 4 years of work experience for graduates of an ABET-accredited engineering program.
Do you have to apprentice under an PE? For some reason I have it in my mind that you can practice engineering for a longer time and still take the PE exam even if you aren’t under a PE.
that depends on the state, PA where i am you need to get your FE then apprentice under a PE for 4 yrs. before i can apply for the PE exam.
I took it.
And passed it.
And yes it was loooooong.
Honestly, i really didn’t even study for it. I mean, basically you have to know the equations book they give you. If you paid attention in all your classes. you’ll do fine. Otherwise, be familiar with where the equations are.
Good luck, its not a cake walk. Actually, co-workers and I were just talking about the PE exam at lunch today.
did you take it while still in school? I’ve been graduated for about 2 yrs. now. I bought a bunch of study guides and have been studying for about a month now.
I took it as i was graduating, a couple months before. So everything was still pretty fresh in terms of what i was doing. If i had to take it now, there woulld be no way, unless i studied for weeks. I went out to rochester to take it.