FE Civil Review Manual Rapid Preparation for the Civil Fundamentals of Engineering Exam [1 ed.] 9781591264392

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Rapid Preparation for the Civil Fundamentals of Engineering Exam

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1:5;erts help immensely with calculation checkmg. And, beta testing before you see a book helps smooth out wrinkles. However, I still manage to muck up the content. So, I hope you will "let me have it" when you find my mistakes. PPI has established an easy way for you to report an error, as well as to review changes that resulted from errors that others have submitted_. Just go to ppi2pass.com/errata. When you subnut something, I'll receive it via email. When I answer it, you'll receive a response. We'll both benefit. Best wishes in your examination experience. Stay in touch! Michael R. Lindeburg, PE

By d~ign, this book has three significant inadequacies. 1 This book is "only" 724 a . contain enough of ever thi p 1es long, so it cannot her of exam 1 . Y ng or everyone. The numThe numbe~ 0efquesti?ns that can fit in it are limited questions needed b · to come up lo speed in . Y you, personally, madequate. For exampt phart1cular subject may be Y?u have to review in or~~r t~~ ~any questions will divergence, curl, differential ee c~mfortable about algebra? (Answer· Probabl equations, and linear ~h~ ~ks you will ever own,Y more ~~an are in all IS meV1t.able if you want t ~ So, additional exposure every ubject. o adequately prepared in

Acknowledgments Developing a book specific to the computerized Civil FE exam has been a monumental project. It involved the usual (from an author's and pub~isher'~ ~tandpoint) activities of updating and repurposmg existmg content and writing new content. However, the project was made extraordinarily more difficult by two factors : (1) a new book design, and (2) the publication schedule. Creating a definitive resource to help you prepare for the computerized FE exam was a huge team effort, and PPI's entire Product Development and Implementation (PD&I) staff was heavily involved. Along the way, they had to learn new skills and competencies, solve unseen technical mysteries, and exercise professional judgment in decisions that involved publishing, resources, engineering, and user utility. They worked long hours, week after week, and month after month, often into the late evening, to publish this book for examinees taking the exam. PPI staff members have had a lot of things to say about this book during its development. In reference to you and other examinees being unaware of what PPI staff did, one of the often-heard statements was, "They will never know." However, I want you to know , so I'm going to tell you. Editorial project managers Chelsea Logan, Magnolia Molcan, and Julia White managed the gargantuan operation, with considerable support from Sarah Hubbard, director of PD&I. Christina Gimlin, senior project manager, cut her teeth on this project. Production services manager Cathy Schrott kept the process moving smoothly and swiftly, despite technical difficulties that seemed determined to stall the process at every opportunity. Christine Eng, product development manager, arranged for all of the outside subject matter experts that were involved with this book. All of the content was event ually reviewed for consistency, PPI style, ~nd ~ccuracy by Jennifer Lindeburg King, associate ed1tor-m-chief. Though everyone in PD&I has a specialty, this project pulled everyone from his or her comfort zone. The entire staff worked on "building" t he chapters of this book from scratch, piecing together existing cont ent with new content. Ever! one learned (with amazing speed) how to grapple with the complexities of XML and MathML V:hile wrestling misbehaving computer code int o submission. Tom Bergstrom, technical illustrator, and Kate ~ayes, production associate, updated existing illustrations and created new ones. They also paginated and

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made corrections. Copy editors Tyler Hayes, Sco~t Marley, Connor Sempek, and Ian A. Walker copy_edited, proofread, corrected, and paginated. Copy editors Alexander Ahn , Manuel Carreiro, and Hilary Flood proofread and corrected . Scott's comments were particularly insightful. Staff interns Nicole Evans, EIT; Prajesh Gongal , EIT; and Jumphol Somsaad assisted with content selection , problem writing, and calculation checking. Staff interns Jeanette Baker, EIT; Scott Miller, EIT; Alex Valeyev, EIT; and Akira Zamudio, EIT, remapped existing PPI problems to the new NCEES Civil FE exam specifications. Paying customers (such as you) shouldn't have to be test pilots. So, close to the end of the process, when content was starting to coalesce out of the shapelessness of the PPI content management system, several subject matter experts became crash car dummies "for the good of engineering." They pretended to be examinees and worked through all of the content, looking for calculation errors, references that went nowhere, and logic that was incomprehensible. These engineers and their knowledge area contributions are: C. Dale Buckner, PhD, PE, SECB (Statics and Structural Design); John C. Crepeau, PhD, PE (Dynamics; Mathematics; and Mechanics of Materials); Joshua T . Frohman, PE (Computational Tools; Construction; Probability and Statistics; and Transportation Engineering) ; David Hurwitz, PhD (Computational Tools; Construction; Probability and Statistics; and Transportation Engineering) ; David Johnstone, PhD, PE (Environmental Engineering; Geotechnical E~~ineering; and Hydraulics and Hydrologic Systems) ; Liliana M. Kandic, PE (Fluid Mechanics; Statics; and Structur_al Design); Aparna Phadnis, PE (Engineering Econonucs; Environmental Engineering; Geotechnical Eng!neering; and Hydraulics and Hydrologic Systems); DaV1d To, PE (Dynamics; Fluid Mechanics· Mathem~ti_cs; and Mechanics of Materials) ; and Adam W1lhamson , PE (Fluid Mechanics; Dynamics; and Materials) .

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