Reddit reviews FE Civil Review Manual
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Reddit reviews FE Civil Review ManualWe found 7 Reddit comments about FE Civil Review Manual. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
I'm an aero engineer and not a CivE, but I did take the general-discipline EIT exam after college and I can tell you that it's as easy as everyone says. If you've been working with a construction company and have an engineering mentor, you could probably study ~200 hours with a companion such as Lindeburg's FE Civil Review Manual and pass the exam. Obviously YMMV depending on how good you are with math and critical thinking skills, but the caliber of the FE/EIT exam is nowhere near the PE one.
As for a second Bachelors degree, it's never too late to get one and I highly encourage you to do it if that's what interests you and it's within your financial means to do so. When I was getting my B.S. in aerospace I went to school with dudes in their 30's and 40's (military vets) and they were able to succeed in getting their degree and compete with their younger peers in the job market. I'm a big advocate of community colleges because that's what I did before transferring to an engineering college.
Last but not least, our Frequently Asked Questions page has a lot of good information on Civil/Structural engineering so I would read some of the responses there to get a sense of what engineers do for work. Even though you've had some exposure to engineering, there's quite a bit of job variety and you should investigate what direction you want to head before doing it.
If you have any followup questions, the users here and in r/engineering are more than happy to answer them.
Lindeburg book is very good. Also use the NCEES practice exam. Lucky you that geotech is a big portion of the exam. For extra help on cross over topics like math, stat, statics, dynamics, economic, mech of mats, materials, ethics you can use mech/other discipline books to get more review.
So one of the huge things I did was before I even started practice problems I watched Marshall University lectures on most of the subjects. The lectures were from a FE review class and the teacher would step through practice problems and where the exact equations were. The most helpful ones were probably the math and probability ones where he would explain how you could pump out most of them using calculator functions in 30 seconds. Here's a link to the series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCV9OyAY5K-VOJjVCbvlDpvni2n3dG7jl
After watching all of these I then did the diagnostic exams for all sections from this book and did more practice problems if I felt I needed it.https://www.amazon.com/Civil-Review-Manual-Michael-Lindeburg/dp/1591264391
Something that also helped was I used a ABC format of studying. So section A was subjects I was confident I could answer a large majority correct. B were subjects I would probably nail like 60% of the time, and C's were kinda crap shoots.
The popular books seem to be:
Lindeburg FE Review Manual: nice if you want short concise information about each subject and topic. I hear the practice problems book are a bit harder than the exam but good prep all the same.
PPI 600 Q and A: I've been using it and like it but having the solution directly under the question makes it cumbersome trying to not see the answer when you the flip the page. Still a decent book but there are some mistakes.
Anthem Publishing Exam Book: seems similar to the NCEES Practice Exam. I bought it cause it was recommended and I wanted a another practice exam.
Bottom line the FE Reference Handbook 9.4 from NCEES, knowing your calculator, and a couple practice question books should get you where you need to be.
https://www.amazon.com/Civil-Review-Manual-Michael-Lindeburg/dp/1591264391/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467983879&sr=8-1&keywords=fe+civil+review+manual
Buy the best condition used one you can find! I got mine for like $75 and it's brand new.
Hey, how did you end up liking the book? I'm thinking of getting it myself. Also did the book have practice problems, or did you find them elsewhere?
edit: What do you think of this book as well? It was suggested to me by a professor: http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Review-Manual-Michael-Lindeburg/dp/1591264391?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
The FE review manual (https://www.amazon.com/Civil-Review-Manual-Michael-Lindeburg/dp/1591264391/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483628512&sr=1-1&keywords=fe+civil+review+manual) has a decent basic review of RC design. Plus this is helpful if you plan on taking the FE at some point. I think reading through the RC sections will give you enough prep to better understand the more technical literature in the textbooks you have.