Best Metallurgical PE Exam Study Materials

Best Metallurgical PE Exam Study Materials – A Guide

For the Metallurgical PE Exam you will need to assemble your reference library from notes and text used during college and your career.  It is suggested that you bring only one reference for each of the categories that will be on the exam.  The TMS, or the Mineral, Metals, and Materials Society has more information on suggested references for the exam.  You can find this organization at the contact below.

The TMS cites the following References for the Metallurgical PE Exam; select one reference per category in order to ‘streamline’ exam day as much as possible.

METALLURGICAL PE EXAM RECOMMENDED READING AND REFERENCES

General:
ASM Metals Handbook, Desk Edition. 1st or 2nd Edition
Ceramic Materials Science and Engineering, by Carter and Norton

Corrosion:
M.B. Fontana, Corrosion Engineering. 3rd Edition McGraw-Hill
D.A. Jones, Principles and Prevention of Corrosion. 2nd Edition 1996. Prentice-Hall

Mechanical Metallurgy:
G. Dieter, Mechanical Metallurgy. 3rd Edition 1986, McGraw-Hill.
R.W. Hertzberg, Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons

Thermodynamics:
Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials, 5th Edition 2008, Taylor & Francis Books, Inc., by D.R.Gaskell

Transport Phenomena:
G.H. Geiger, Transport Phenomena in Materials, 1998, Addison Wesley
D.R. Gaskell, Introduction to Transport Phenomena in Materials Engineering, 1992, Macmillan Publishing Co.

Physical Metallurgy:
R.E. Reed-Hill, Physical Metallurgy Principles, 1992, PWS-Kent Publishing.
S. Avner, Introduction to Physical Metallurgy, latest edition, McGraw-Hill.

Other:
J.P. Schaffer, A. Saxena, S.D. Antolovich, T.H. Sanders, jr., S.B. Warner, The Science and Design of Engineering Materials, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill.
W.D. Callister, Jr., Materials Science and Engineering, 5th Edition, John Wiley & Sons
Candidates are advised to carry a basic statistics book for reference purpose.

Contact The Minerals Metals and Materials Society

For more information, you may want to contact the TMS society directly.

TMS

http://www.tms.org/Education/PE/PEreferences.aspx

184 Thorn Hill Road

Warrendale, Pennsylvania 15086 USA

Telephone: (724) 776-9000

Fax: (724) 776-3770

E-Mail: education@tms.org

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