PE Structural Question

[yaroosh]

Hello Everyone,

I am planning to take my PE exam for OCT 2017 with Structural depth in the afternoon. There are plenty of books out there, and I already got the Civil Engineering reference manual and the structural depth reference manual. However, I am not sure if I should purchase the other books that are offered by ppi like Concrete Design for the Civil PE and Structural SE Exams etc. I would truly appreciate it if someone can advise me what books are needed?

If this is a repeated question, please guide me with the link to the answer.

Thank you for your help.

 

[TehMightyEngineer]

I'd say it wouldn't hurt to pick them up if you don't already have a good textbook for those materials. Overall you'll only really need them for studying; the SERM and CERM are probably going to be 90% of your references for the exam (other than the codes of course).

Professional Engineer (ME, NH, MA) Structural Engineer (IL)
American Concrete Industries

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[Lomarandil]

It depends on your learning style of course -- but I wouldn't say any of those additional books are "needed".

Ideally, I'd walk in with the CERM and relevant codes -- having read and studied those enough to be able to easily flip to the needed section and solve any problem. Some code organizations make that tougher than others (looking at you, ACI) unless you happen to be working in them every day at your job.

You'll be able to judge best where you might be able to use my "ideal" approach, and where you'll want some supplemental material (like SDRM or textbooks) to fill in the gaps.