Metallurgical PE exam for mechanical engineer 1

[onrush]

Dear members,

My academic background is mechanical in undergraduate and also in graduate. (In graduate my study subject was heat trasnfer and fluid flow.)
However I have worked for 7 years as a piping materials engineer in engineering company, who carries out the process plant project. That is why I am preparing for the metallurgical and material PE exam.

Is there any engineer who passed a metallurgical PE exam while his/her major was mechanical? I need any comment for me to make a study plan.

Thank you in advance....

 

[metengr]

onrush;
Have you had any metallurgy/materials engineering courses either in college or in graduate school, other than OTJ expierence, that you mentioned above? If not, your probability of passing this exam will be low (this is not meant as a criticism only observation from those that I known that have taken this exam, and my own expierence. It is one thing to review test reports, process procedures, welding, inspection, etc., on the job from exposure, it is another thing to understand the theory and subsequent application of the above).

 

[EdStainless]

I don't fit your request, my degrees are in metallurgy and I took my test a long time ago.
What struck me about the test what the broad range of questions. Everything from mining and smelting, to theoretical fracture mechanics, to practical materials identification.
If you don't feel comfortable with your copies of Detiert and Gaskell then you probably aren't ready.

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[arunmrao]

Ed,
You forgot to mention Reedhill.

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[onrush]

Dear all,

Very appreciate for everybody's comments.

In undergraduate I had 2 metallurgy-related courses, which are the introduction to metallurgy and introduction to manufacturing process (basics of casting, forming, welding, etc.)

In my job the scope of work are the developing the piping classifications (should be very familiar with ASTM, NACE, etc.) and project specifications for material purchase, coating&lining, NDE, composite materials, etc.

As everybody's comments I guess that the very theoritical areas of mechanical metallurgy, transport phenomena and physical metallurgy will be the hardest subjects for me to study. However I have some confidence in myself for the practical areas, which are material selection, material properties, heat treatment, NDE or corrosion.

I will very thoroughly review and work on the problems of Dieter (mechanical metallurgy), Gaskell (Transport phenomena) and Reedhill (physical metallurgy).Then finally I will review the ASM metal handbook desk edition form cover to cover. That's my study plan for about 2~3 years.

on more question.

How many calculation-related problems on real exam?

Thank you very much.

 

[CoryPad]

For my exam, calculations were required on almost every question.

While your proposed information resources are good, the very best one is the practice exam available from TMS.

http://iweb.tms.org/Purchase/ProductDetail.aspx?Product_code=08-7254-E

Regards,

Cory

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[metengr]

Have you visited the NCEES web site to download the subject matter areas?

http://www.ncees.org/

Second comment, the exam specification is changed to Materials and Metallurgy, starting in 2008. I would suggest you review this revised specification.

For some idea as to the type of questions, you can visit the TMS web site and use their practice exam. However, this will be changed in the near future to reflect the new exam specification.

 

[onrush]

Dear metengr,

TMS already changed the study guide and practice examination.

Anyway thanks....

 

[metengr]

onrush;
I just went on the TMS web site and downloaded the practice exam. This is not the new practice exam as I know it. If you look at the knowledge areas on this booklet it does not match the new exam specification knowledge areas posted on NCEES;

see below;

http://www.ncees.org/exams/professional/

I help write questions and review the exam format, so I wanted to double check on this. Also, several TMS volunteers have been working to revise the practice exam. Again, go to NCEES and download the new or revised exam specification.

 

[onrush]

Dear metengr,

very appreciate!

I already downloaded the new exam specification and reviwed it uopn being revised. I also felt that the revised exam specification is not in accordance with TMS new practice exam. Especially the new exam specification announced that the non-metal (ceramic, polymer and composite) problems will be included as 20% in material specific problems. But TMS new practice exam included only 1 composite material problem. Also the recommended referencs are the same as old version.

However most important thing to me is to study, study and study...^_^

Thanks again....

 

[EdStainless]

Use post-it flags to mark in your books so that you know where various subjects are. Being able to look things up quickly is a major test skill.

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[mettle97]

Any body taking PE metallurgical Exam for Oct,2008?