Episode 05 – Get Your Study Materials and Resources Together

In order to effectively study for the PE Exam, you will need to get some study materials.  Here are 2 items you will need immediately.  This particular episode is geared towards materials for the Civil Engineering PE Exam.

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Study and Exam Resources

A brief listing of some of the materials mentioned in the show is provided below.  A more detailed listing is provided in the free checklist that you can sign up for on this page.

Books & Guides
Civil Engineering Reference Manual by Michael Lindeburg
Civil Engineering Quick Reference

Problems
101 solved civil engineering problems

Sample exams
Civil Engineering Sample Exam (by ppi)
NCEES Sample Exam ( on NCEES website)

Design Standards - The PE Civil modules of Transportation, Structural and Construction require you to have design standards.  You will need these for the afternoon session.

Structural –

IBC 2006  and referenced standards.
ASCE 7-05
ACI 318-05
ACI 530 – 05
AISC 13th edition
AISC Seismic
NDS 05
PCI 2004
AASHTO  LRFD Bridge Design Specifications

Transportation -
AASHTO  A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 2004
edition (5th edition), American Association of State Highway &
Transportation Officials, Washington, DC.

AASHTO
Roadside Design Guide, 3rd edition with 2006 Chapter 6 Update,
American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials,
Washington, DC.

HCM
Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2000), 2000 edition,
Transportation Research Board—National Research Council,
Washington, DC.

MUTCD   Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 2003, U.S.
Department of Transportation—Federal Highway Administration,
Washington, DC.

PCA  Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures, 2002, 14th edition,
Portland Cement Association, Skokie, IL.

ITE  Traffic Engineering Handbook, 1999, 5th edition, Institute of
Transportation Engineers, Washington, DC.

Construction -
ASCE 37-02 Design Loads on Structures During Construction, 2002, American
Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA, www.asce.org.

NDS National Design Specification for Wood Construction, 2005,
American Forest & Paper Association/American Wood Council,
Washington, DC, www.awc.org.

CMWB Standard Practice for Bracing Masonry Walls During Construction,
2001, Council for Masonry Wall Bracing, Mason Contractors
Association of America, Lombard, IL, www.masoncontractors.org.

AISC Steel Construction Manual, 13th ed., American Institute of Steel
Construction, Inc., Chicago, IL, www.aisc.org.

ACI 318-05  Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete, 2005,
American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, MI,
www.concrete.org.

ACI 347-04 Guide to Formwork for Concrete, 2004, American Concrete Institute,
Farmington Hills, MI, www.concrete.org (in ACI SP-4, 7th edition
appendix).

ACI SP-4 Formwork for Concrete, 7th ed., 2005, American Concrete Institute,
Farmington Hills, MI, www.concrete.org.

OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction
Industry, 29 CFR Part 1926 (US federal version), US Department of
Labor, Washington, DC.

MUTCD-Pt 6 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices – Part 6 Temporary
Traffic Control, 2003, US Federal Highway Administration,
www.fhwa.dot.gov.

Water Resources & Environmental & Geotechnical – resources & texts from college.  A more detailed listing is on the free pdf checklist that you can sign up for.

Note:
For people taking the Structural I exam:
Get the Structural Engineering Reference Manual by Alan Williams
Also the Practice problems by Alan Williams

What you do not need for the exam:
Obsolete textbooks, mathematics, or calculus, etc.