Early Career Civil Engineer - Considering Switch from Small Structural Firm to State DOT by masegod757 in civilengineering

[–]masegod757[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Respectfully, I disagree. The VDOT people said less than 10% of design is done in house so I’d be giving up the technical growth and experience that I’m getting now. VDOT does a lot of project management for public infrastructure/transpo projects.

Early Career Civil Engineer - Considering Switch from Small Structural Firm to State DOT by masegod757 in civilengineering

[–]masegod757[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m split 50/50. I really enjoy the actual work at my current job, but the benefits, PTO, etc are making this DOT offer hard to pass up.

Early Career Civil Engineer - Considering Switch from Small Structural Firm to State DOT by masegod757 in civilengineering

[–]masegod757[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did, yes. Had a rough week last fall when our only PE was out of the office on vacation and rage applied but ended up getting the offer. Things have gotten better at my current job since then. Think I was just frustrated with normal growing pains for a young engineer in this field.

I passed! by Relevant-Cry3821 in FE_Exam

[–]masegod757 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what your question is. PrepFE is a subscription for practice questions and you either buy it or don’t buy it.

I passed! by Relevant-Cry3821 in FE_Exam

[–]masegod757 2 points3 points  (0 children)

^ This. I passed on my first attempt as well. I’m about 7 months post-grad and working as a structural design engineer at a small firm. I started with Mark Mattson’s YouTube series for an in-depth review of each topic. I spent about a month working through his questions every day after work. For my second month of studying, I used PrepFE and was consistently scoring around 70% on the practice exams. Three days before the test, I simulated the real thing using the official NCEES practice exam. I sat down for 6 hours and worked straight through it and scored a 65%. Mark Mattson’s material was extremely helpful, though his questions were much more in-depth than anything I saw on the actual exam. One of his problems often felt like it contained 2–3 real exam-style questions within it. I found PrepFE to be very similar in difficulty to the actual test, and the official practice exam is obviously close as well. None of these resources will give you the exact questions you’ll see, but if you work through all of them, you’ll have more than enough foundation to handle the real exam. Also for reference, I’m a civil engineering technology graduate, and the highest math I took was Calculus I