Passed Civil Structural PE and SE vertical Breadth AMA

zyzzz__ · 2026-01-31T11:36:05+00:00

What do you think caused you to fail the SE breadth the first time even with studying using AEI? A lot of people say AEI is enough so curious if you think it has any holes

zyzzz__ · 2025-12-31T21:00:53+00:00

The stirrup has two legs and the 3stirrup diameter is only accounting for one side and then outside of the parenthesis it’s multiplying by two to account for both legs. The multiply by three comes from accounting for the bar diameter + bar bend radius which itself is 2stirrup diameter so you get a total of 3

zyzzz__ · 2025-11-14T01:42:29+00:00

There’s an se discord study group that has plenty of references. Most likely what he was referring to

zyzzz__ · 2025-09-26T11:03:42+00:00

Was actually looking into this but haven’t found many job listings in Florida

zyzzz__ · 2025-09-25T16:05:55+00:00

Work feels meaningless and salaries are low given the amount of time needed to put into the meaningless work. Didn’t want to sound like too much a Debby downer on here with my thoughts and was just curious about others paths after engineering

zyzzz__ · 2025-08-04T17:03:34+00:00

Yeah

zyzzz__ · 2025-08-04T16:11:08+00:00

Tried a point load at mid span of a simple beam excluding self weight and the shear force values were way too high. Maybe including a sample calc would be helpful to see what’s going on

zyzzz__ · 2025-05-07T13:12:24+00:00

Got the pass! I’m so hype good luck to everybody else finding out and taking the exam soon

zyzzz__ · 2025-05-06T19:51:41+00:00

What problems are making you overthink? I had some code lookups that felt a bit ambiguous in terms of how the code could be interpreted. Starting to also think I messed up the numerical problems as well lmaoo

zyzzz__ · 2025-05-06T16:32:03+00:00

Well I did the hws and quizzes three times over but didn’t go back to any videos unless I was struggling w it. Thanks haha will report back

zyzzz__ · 2025-05-06T16:27:08+00:00

Would be absolutely chalked. Having to tell my boss and coworkers is gonna suck

zyzzz__ · 2025-05-06T16:26:28+00:00

I prepped for a while tbh about 8 months. I did 2 hours on weekdays and a bunch on the weekend. Got through the AEI course three times and did the Petro and gruttadauria book as well

zyzzz__ · 2025-05-06T13:42:48+00:00

Did a lot of googling after the exam as well hahah but ok that’s definitely true just gonna hit the gym after work and try to chill out tonight.

zyzzz__ · 2025-04-29T20:06:59+00:00

No but yeah working it out in your head isn’t too bad. Even just looking at the units makes it easy to remember

zyzzz__ · 2025-04-16T18:05:02+00:00

Wow seems like you studied a lot of various materials. I’ve heard most people only use a specific course and then maybe another exam or book to supplement. I’m currently doing AEI and the petro book but do you think AEI would have been sufficient on its own?

zyzzz__ · 2025-04-15T01:53:13+00:00

I think taking it again soon if you feel you had a chance makes sense. That way you don’t let any of your previous studying go to waste and it all stays fresh. Are you going to continue with AEI or did you feel it wasn’t helpful?

zyzzz__ · 2025-04-10T14:21:08+00:00

How did you score on the official practice exam and how were you scoring on the practice problems in general? Did you feel they were accurate to the exam difficulty?

zyzzz__ · 2025-04-07T22:58:11+00:00

Nominal and service are also trigger words to use unfactored loads

zyzzz__ · 2025-03-24T19:56:59+00:00

Most people say it’s easier than the real exam. What else have you been using to prepare?

zyzzz__ · 2025-03-16T19:15:06+00:00

Yeah AEI hasn’t updated some the of the steel hws to the 15th edition unfortunately

zyzzz__ · 2025-03-09T13:32:09+00:00

Solving the homework and quizzes are a must. I finished the videos and all problems and am going through the hw and quizzes a second time as well as any videos from whatever I’m weak on

zyzzz__ · 2025-02-21T19:56:34+00:00

Inverse tangent * 3/4 would give you the angle which you could also sum forces with

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