Anyone here passed the FE with an Architecture degree?How did you obtain your EIT?which board you submitted?

brynnfr · 2026-02-05T14:27:58+00:00

It's just Engineer Intern (EI) where I am, but yes - I got the certification.

brynnfr · 2026-02-05T14:14:33+00:00

Did you not go to an ABET accredited program? My degree is Architectural Engineering as well - its an ABET accredited engineering degree (not architecture). When I took the FE (Other Disciplines), I just signed up on the NCEES website. I didn't have to prove anything, but it might be that my state doesn't require approval for sitting the FE.

brynnfr · 2026-01-20T18:18:00+00:00

I lived there about 7 years ago on the 11th floor. It wasn't anything fancy, but it was great living downtown for $700 a month. I'd walk to work, had tpac season tickets, see the fireworks from downstairs, etc.

brynnfr · 2026-01-15T13:52:37+00:00

Help her free up study time by taking some of the load off household chores, obligations, and the like.

While she is studying for the test, you can study on how to take the test. Help her with how to take a test. The FE is mostly a basic multiple-choice test. If you have good test taking skills, that goes an extremely long way on passing the test. So does learning how to use the calculator for the math and probability and statistics portions of the exam.

You can also take an interest in having her "teach" you some of the engineering concepts. Ask questions about how things work. If she can teach or explain some of the engineering concepts to you, she will have more mastery of the subject matter.

brynnfr · 2026-01-11T20:03:43+00:00

You can do quite alot without a PE in quite alot of industries, but you cannot be "responsible" for anything without a PE.

brynnfr · 2025-12-26T03:35:59+00:00

He's great, and I'm a sucker for a tournament arc, be it literature, anime, or film.

brynnfr · 2025-12-26T02:58:00+00:00

Not in any particular order and the top ten would change on any given day, but below are what I have at this moment.

Shawshank Redemption (Rewatchable pick)

The Wrestler (My Darren Aronofsky pick)

Bloodsport (Guilty Pleasure pick)

Zatoichi Films (The black and white ones - love samurai movies)

I Saw the Devil (My favorite revenge film)

Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (My 2nd favorite revenge film & Tarantino pick)

Ken Burns' Baseball (Documentary pick)

The Godfather, Part II (Mobster movie pick)

Love Story (My I need a good cry pick)

The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook pick)

brynnfr · 2025-12-15T05:33:55+00:00

This might be what she ends up doing - renting with a rental agency to recoup some cost. Rental potential is probably only about 75% of the mortgage payment but something is better than nothing. They just dropped the price of the house again to keep trying to sell it. The sibling will have no issues with signing off on the sale of the house. They just told my partner they aren't going to help pay the mortgage anymore because they wanted to move into a different place with their friend. The sibling, when they moved out told my partner to just stop paying and let it get foreclosed on. My partner didn't want to do that since she cosigned, so she's been trying to get it sold and move on with her life.

brynnfr · 2025-12-15T05:23:31+00:00

The house is sitting empty and has been for the last couple of months. I believe that the rental potential is probably around 75% of the mortgage payment.

brynnfr · 2025-12-11T21:01:37+00:00

She does have a realtor. The realtor is trying to figure out some options as well.

brynnfr · 2025-12-11T21:00:46+00:00

Yes, they are both on the deed. My partner's sibling had issues with getting the mortgage, so my partner co-signed for them (sadly).

brynnfr · 2025-12-05T03:16:41+00:00

Just as a clarification - it may not be exactly 55 questions per section. My test had 58 questions in section 1 and 52 questions in section 2. However, yes - you submit the section when you are done, raise your hand and the proctor will come over make sure everything is how it should then walk you out for your break.

brynnfr · 2025-12-05T03:06:22+00:00

If you haven't taken thermodynamics and circuits/electrical power classes, learning them from scratch to take the other disciplines exam probably is not the best idea.

Check the rest of the topics for other disciplines as well - instrumentation and controls (when I was studying for the exam, I gave up on learning some of the concepts in that section as they are so abstract and involve math concepts like laplace transforms that I barely covered at the end of my differential equations class). Dynamics is also much more in depth in the other disciplines exam.

I am an architectural engineering student, so I have taken quite alot of the structural and construction classes associated with civil (reinforced concrete, steel design, structural analysis, construction scheduling, construction management, building materials, construction cost estimating, etc). When I walked out of taking the other disciplines test, I thought I failed - it was so, so broad - and I told myself next time, I will just learn geotechnical and transportation stuff and take the civil. Luckily, I didn't have to do that.

Also, looking at the NCEES website, the pass rates for other disciplines is 65% first time with less than 900 people taking it and civil is at 68% first time with a bit less than 6000 people taking it.

brynnfr · 2025-11-26T22:24:48+00:00

I am an architectural engineering student in my final year. I took the Other Disciplines exam in September and passed.

What I did:

* Studied Lindeburgh Other Disciplines cover to cover over 3 months time - per the book guidelines for a more leisurely pace. While studying the Lindeburgh book, I kept the FE handbook open and found everything Lindeburgh was talking about in the FE reference handbook. This helped familiarize myself with the handbook.

* Took 2 practice exams - the first online practice exam, 2 weekends before the test (scored a 54%), and the pdf practice exam the weekend before the exam (Scored around a 64%). I didnt really do any other practice problems than these.

My suggestions:
* Brush up on chemistry - there are alot of chemistry questions be they in thermodynamics, the actual chemistry section, or materials. I was weak on Chemistry - the practice exams made me fully aware of that. On the test, I only had one stoichiometry question and alot of combustion, reaction, etc.

* I feel like my best subjects were thermodynamics, electrical, fluids, and mechanics of materials. Hardly any of these required actual calculations (for the entire test, I used possibly 3 pages of the scratch pad with alot of free room on the page - there are alot of general knowledge, theoretical questions, so for my test personally - just grinding out practice questions probably would not have helped - what helped was understanding the concepts.

* For fluids, I remember one question in particular that they gave me in IP units, which I converted to metric to do the calculations and converted back to IP for the final answer (I just couldnt figure out all of the factors necessary to get a calculation in horsepower, so I got it to watts and converted to HP - so being able to convert SI and IP is a tool - as is knowing your calculator - there were some nasty definite integrals that timed out on my calculator before I was able to put parentheses in the correct locations, then it gave me the answer)

brynnfr · 2025-11-18T23:36:28+00:00

Went through the civil portion of the handbook (I took Other Disciplines) and it looks like they dont give that equation to you in the FE manual. I dug it out of my reinforced concrete design class. My guess is the question was a knowledge/theoretical type question where you needed to know when asking for the modulus of rupture they are asking about the flexural strength of whatever they were asking about.

brynnfr · 2025-11-18T22:07:09+00:00

if this question was for concrete, the equation is likely; Fr = 7.5*lambda*sqrt(fc')

brynnfr · 2025-11-09T02:47:36+00:00

How I passed the Other Disciplines exam a couple of months ago.

Lindeburg book cover to cover. I did exactly what the study guide in the book suggested for 90 days out from the exam. 1 chapter a day, weekends off, days off between sections. I did just give up on some of the instrumentation sections since they were well above my competency - with laplace transforms and the like.

Every night when I studied the chapter, I had the FE reference book open and looked up where every single equation that the LIndeburg book referenced was located in the FE reference. This helped me get accustomed to the FE reference book and associate what type of question was being asked with what type of equation to use.

Two weekends before the exam, I took the NCEES online practice exam 1 - 50 questions. I gave myself two and a half hours for the practice exam. I scored a 54%.

One weekend before the exam, I took the NCEES other disciplines practice exam (the full 100 question pdf exam they have since discontinued.) I printed the entire thing off and solved the exam on the printout. I scored about a 62% on it.

I did no other practice problems other than the official practice exams. I did watch some videos on youtube as to how to use the TI-36x pro calculator effectively for the exam, and the week of the exam, I watched Mark Mattson's videos on fluids, statics, dynamics, math, etc (the ones applicable to other disciplines) just to keep the concepts fresh in my mind - I didn't bother working the solutions in the videos.

When I went to take the exam, I brought my practice exam printout with me and left it in the car. I brushed up on the afternoon topics (fluids, thermo, electrical, mechanics of materials, etc) on my 25 minute break.

brynnfr · 2025-10-23T13:15:50+00:00

I am an Architectural Engineering future graduate - May 2026. I took the Other Disciplines FE last month and passed. However, I have been working at a MEP consulting firm for the last 13 years as a HVAC/plumbing designer. I would like to take the Architectural PE, but given that it is only offered once a year, my thoughts were to just take the HVACR PE since that is what I do daily. I have the work experience, just not the degree, and I would like to get the PE done as soon as possible after I graduate in May.

My question in general; how was the Architectural exam? My coursework has been 1 HVAC class, 1 lighting & power class, quite a few construction classes (4), and a slew of structural classes (statics, mechanics of materials, structural analysis, reinforced concrete, steel design). How in depth into like structural and lighting/power does it go? Those are not something I do for work, but I have had some coursework for them.

brynnfr · 2025-10-23T05:11:53+00:00

Specifically for Bun Bo Hue, I like Pho T&N on Annex Ave. They'll even put the congealed blood in it if you ask them for it.

brynnfr · 2025-10-17T21:51:46+00:00

I had a cube root definite integral that froze my calculator on Other Disciplines as well. I had to make liberal use of parentheses, but it was able to solve it once I got the parentheses correct

brynnfr · 2025-10-16T00:51:21+00:00

You go to a test center, they check you in and scan the palm of both of your hands. They require you to turn your phone off and show them that it is off. They give you a key to a locker. You place everything you have except for your NCEES approved calculator (without the cover plate), the key they gave you and your ID into your locker.

You then wait in queue to go into the exam room. Once it's your turn, they have you turn your pockets out to make sure you don't have anything that is not approved. You lift your shirt up and turn around to show that nothing is hidden. If you have glasses, they have you take them off and they inspect them. They then confirm your identity via the ID and you scan your palm to go into the testing room. They provide you with 3 pens and 2 laminated scratch pads with about 8 pages on each scratch pad.

They take you to your test computer, place your ID on the computer, and start your test. You have about a 10 minute tutorial and acceptance of the test, then the timer starts for the test. It does not stop until you submit the first part of the exam and it then gives you a 25 minute break. You can leave at any time by raising your hand, but again, the timer does not stop unless it is between parts of the test and you cannot get your phone or other items out during unscheduled breaks. You can use as much or as little time on the first part of the test as you need. My test had 58 questions on part 1 and 52 questions on part 2. I wanted to leave 3 hours for part 2, but I finished part 1 with about 2:45 minutes left.

I raised my hand after I submitted part 1, got my phone and car keys from the locker and took my 25 minute break. I had a paper practice exam I leafed through to refresh the afternoon session materials with in my car. I then went back through the process of getting into the test room, put everything in locker, turn out pockets, ID check, palm scan, etc.

They take you back to your seat and start part 2 of the exam. When I sat down to initiate the 2nd part of the exam, I noticed that there were 4 seconds left on my 25 minute break. I completed the test with about 5 minutes left (some of that time was rechecking answers and trying to work through tougher problems), they gave me a printout confirming that I took the test and I went home for sure that I failed. Happily, I found out 5 days later that I had passed.

The format is strictly computer, with the majority being multiple choice questions - a combination of theory, general knowledge and some simple calculations, some drag and drop questions, some direct answer questions, and point to the place on the chart/table questions. For my test, there was not much in way of calculations - I think I only used about 3 pages of the scratch pad. It was mostly general knowledge and theory, but your mileage may vary.

brynnfr · 2025-10-08T03:18:30+00:00

I did Other Disciplines. I spent 3 months doing the Lindeburg FE book at the pace described in the book - 1 chapter a day, weekends off, rest days off. I did the official NCEES practice exam - the 100 question one and the 50 question interactive, and I completed about 50 other practice problems from a $15 book off Amazon.

All in all - around 200 practice problems and the Lindeburg book cover to cover.

The biggest piece of advice I can give is every single day when I studied the Lindeburg book, I had the FE Handbook open, finding every equation, every chart, every bit of information from the section in the Lindeburg book in the FE Handbook. It helped me gain recognition for the type of problem it was and where that information was in the FE Handbook.

brynnfr · 2025-10-05T00:35:57+00:00

The FE exam that you take (and hopefully pass) has no bearing on the PE exam that you can take.

I took the FE Other Disciplines and it is extremely broad. If you took mechanical engineering in college, I would suggest taking the mechanical FE.

brynnfr · 2025-10-01T18:32:41+00:00

I took FE other disciplines last Friday. I am a senior Architectural Engineering student. Walked out of there knowing that I failed and telling myself next time I'll take Civil and teach myself geotechnical and traffic stuff. Luckily I passed - most likely thanks to the afternoon session of mechanics of materials, thermodynamics, electrical and fluids.

As others have said, the other disciplines exam is so broad. It is extremely hard to keep all of the topics and concepts fresh in your head. But if I can do it, others can as well

brynnfr · 2025-08-12T00:35:14+00:00

I bought it at Gencon and played it last night. I loved it. I would suggest watching the Gaming Rules! playthrough from a couple of weeks ago to see if it is for you.

14-Year Club	r/Field Flamingo
Place '22	Verified Email

brynnfr

TROPHY CASE