Is ChasBean capable of the HVAC PE exam? 3

[ChasBean1]

Quick vent: I’ve been on this site since the dark ages although I haven’t posted anything in a while. I’ve developed good (but never-met) friends: Quark, Imok, MintJulep, Liliput, Abby, SAK9, IRStuff, etc.. - you all know who you are.

I’m two weeks away from an HVAC PE exam and have been doing practice tests. Gosh darn. I’m f’d. I have (what I used to believe) to be a very strong working knowledge of HVAC but a poor and faded academic knowledge of it.

G.D. COPs of ammonia refrigeration cycles. Isentropic compression. Q = UA dT across G.D. walls. What's the f'ing temperature at Surface C. F’ing NPSHa vs. NPSHr calcs…

Lord help me. I should’ve taken this test a while ago…

Vent over. Respect to all! -CB

 

[lukaiENG]

study hard and good luck!

 

[IRstuff]

Best of luck. Cutting it a bit close if you're still wobbly on things.

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[SAK9]

Chas,

May the Force be with you!

 

[GT-EGR]

There are two different Lindeburg practice tests from what I remember. One is overly easy, and one is overly difficult. So hopefully the one you took was the unnecessarily difficult one.

Good luck

 

[ChasBean1]

Thank you all! Great support system here. If i screw the pooch in a couple weeks I'll do the April gig.

 

[willard3]

In New York, at least, the second part of the exam is waaayyyy easier than the first part.

 

[chicopee]

What does the word " f'ing" mean? I hope that he does not stand for what I may think it is particularly in this site.

 

[ChasBean1]

Flipping... honestly.

 

[BronYrAur]

It has been almost 20 years since I took it, but I agree with Willard3. The 1st part was all general science/engineering questions. The second part was discipline-specific. I would assume based on this forum that you would choose the HVAC discipline. I believe the other choices were thermodynamics/heat transfer and machine design.

At the time I took the exam in Illinois, you could bring in text books. I don't know if that is still the case or not. Maybe I'm thinking of the FE exam, but I remember bringing in more books than I could carry; although, I think I only actually opened my general physics book. That probably was the FE exam while everything was still fresh on my mind.

Just get a good study guide and work through it to prepare.

 

[BronYrAur]

If it is any encouragement I passed the Mechanical Engineering exam, and I don't have an ME degree. I have BS and MS degrees in Nuclear Engineering but couldn't find the right job in that field. I stumbled into a mechanical/electrical contractor/engineering firm because their logo looked like an Atom (so I thought it might be nuclear). Out of desperation, I took a job with them as a mechanical engineer. I had vague concepts of boilers and cooling towers from my nuclear engineering classes, but I had no clue what a chiller was when I first started. I learned it all on the job those first few years, and I passed the HVAC PE exam having never taken an actual college HVAC course.

You can do it!

 

[chicopee]

I would forgo the HVAC discipline and take the mechanical engineering PE exam which allows you to select different problem in part II. Part I is all fundamental engineering questions at least that was it was back in the 1970's when I took the tests.

 

[lilliput1]

Get the book PE Mechanical Exam | HVAC & Refrigeration Review Material. Study it and have faith. You can make it. About 84% typically pass.

 

[ChasBean1]

Took it. Passed it? Who knows. The AM test and the PM test were equally hard. I had a harder time with the PM test due to diminishing brain function. 40 problems in each session. Turns out to be 6 minutes per problem. For any of the 6 minute problems, (if this were the real world) as a consultant, I'd spend half a day making sure I had the right solution. For the test, you gotta figure out a goddamn ice rink refrigeration load in 6 minutes. Out of this, I hope I'll become a Professional Engineer vs. a Pathetic Engineer (either I suppose would say PE on my card).

 

[ChasBean1]

ChasBean1 passed. Go figure. Love my incognito support group on this forum...
Blessings to you all!

 

[BronYrAur]

Nice job!

 

[itsmoked]

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[lukaiENG]

congratulations!

 

[IRstuff]

Congrats!

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[lilliput1]

Congratulations! Make sure you join ASHRAE.