I've passed the Fundamentals of Engineering exam for EE. There was a civil engin...

seanmcdirmid · on Nov 20, 2016

Congrats on your qualification as a civ-e then :)

Just joking. I mean, the questions are doable, they just aren't very meaningful.

ocschwar · on Nov 20, 2016

No, but there is value in seeing just what other branches of engineer have to learn to safeguard human life.

seanmcdirmid · on Nov 21, 2016

Sure, but I'm not sure why that applies to the many other Es (ChemE, MaterialE, MechE, ...), or why it would just focus on what is done with respect to civ-E (given the other Es, just because it was second oldest?), or do they include other Es as well?

ocschwar · on Nov 21, 2016

The CivE questions are not much of a departure from Mech-E at all.

That still leaves chemical engineers and material engineers, and that is partly because Civ-E is older, and the need for licensing in Civ-E was established first, by the Quebec bridge disaster.

But ultimately the whole thing is an exercise in social engineering, to make you care about your honor as much as about money (the money for being a PE is not that big a bonus), and making you look at Civ-E for a day in this fashion, well, it works.