Structural Engineering Exam Changes effective April 2011

August 12, 2010

To those of you taking the Structural Engineering Exam on April 2011, you better check the changes about the Structural Engineering Exam Changes effective April 2011 .
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The structural engineering exam is a breadth and exam examination offered in two components on successive days. The 8-hour Vertical Forces (Gravity/Other) and Incidental Lateral component is offered only on Friday and focuses on gravity loads and lateral earth pressures. The 8-hour Lateral Forces (Wind/Earthquake) component is offered only on Saturday and focuses on wind/earthquake loads.
To become a licensed structural engineer, examinees must pass both components. The components may be taken and passed in different exam administrations.
Each component of the structural exam has a breadth (morning) module and a depth (afternoon) module.
• Breadth exam (morning session): This module contains questions covering a comprehensive range of structural engineering topics. All questions are multiple-choice.
• Depth exams (afternoon session): These modules focus more closely on a single area of practice in structural engineering. Examinees must choose either buildings or bridges. Examinees must work the same topic area on both components. That is, if buildings is the topic area chosen in the Vertical Forces component, then buildings must be the topic area chosen in the Lateral Forces component. All questions are constructed response (essay).
Examinees must take the breadth module of each component and one of the two depth modules in each component.
Detailed listings of topics in each component are shown in the following sections:
Friday Morning: PE Structural breadth exam – Vertical Forces (Gravity/Other) and Incidental Lateral
Friday Afternoon: PE Structural depth exam – Vertical Forces (Gravity/Other) and Incidental Lateral
Saturday Morning: PE Structural breadth exam – Lateral Forces (Wind/Earthquake)
Saturday Afternoon: PE Structural depth exam – Lateral Forces (Wind/Earthquake)

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