Good Ref material for PE exam

[Golestan]

Hi,
For those of you who have taken the principle and practice exam (part II) for the Professional Engineer license in the HVAC specialty: What referance materials and hand books are best for prep study and what should be taken to the exam session?
This info would be helpfull for all the ME's who are going to take the upcoming PE exam.

Regards, and... Happy New Year

 

[PatBethea]

NCEES used to (and I assume still does) sell a booklet of sample exam questions. Working those problems and several problems from Lindeburg's Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam was how the bulk of my prep-time was spent. Working the sample problems will give you a good idea as to what references you will need. For the HVAC portion, all I remember needing was the Lindeburg book, the current ASHRAE Fundamentals handbook, a fluid dynamics book, a heat transfer textbook, and the thermodynamics textbook I had in school. Of those, I want to say that the ASHRAE handbook was the least useful - which is ironic, because in practice, it has been the most useful.

FWIW - When I took the test (2001), turbo-machinery seemed to be disproportionately represented - i.e. there were a bunch of pump/fan problems.