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After a 30-year career in the environmental engineering area, I served 10 years as the Director of Examinations for the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). The NCEES develops and grades the examinations that all 50 states and 5 jurisdictions of the USA use in licensing engineers and land surveyors. During my time at the NCEES, approximately 500,000 candidates sat for the Fundamentals (FE/EIT) and about 300,000 took the Principles and Practice (PE) examinations.

Engineering Press has provided top quality products over a period of years with guidance to candidates who are preparing to take the exams. Their publications are kept up-to-date with the many changes that have been made in the exams without overloading them with extraneous information.

The specifications for all the exams are developed by surveys of the practicing professional engineers and the education professionals who teach in the accredited engineering programs at universities and colleges throughout the United States. Item (problem, question) writers from all over the...