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January 26, 2010 to March 30, 2010

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Background:

 IIT is an organization that has been providing Professional Engineering (PE) License Seminars in many engineering disciplines since 1973. Over 25,000 engineers across the country have taken the PE License Seminars. IIT has developed its own manuals to be used in their seminars. They have theory, example problems illustrating the concepts and solutions to past PE Example problems given in PE Examinations.

 Until about 1990’s, most of the licensing programs were under the direction of each State. The exams questions were made public. They are comprehensive examinations with eight one hour long examination problems. The examinees have pick up four problems from a list of ten problems in the morning and another four problems in the afternoon. These examinations have been graded by an examination team and the results were published. The examination problems used to cover not only engineering fundamentals but also problems of practical nature.

 IIT has its beginnings at California State University, Long Beach. Several outstanding practitioners and scholars were recruited to offer these seminars. Perhaps, these were the largest of such programs in US. Supporting these seminars over 30 volumes of License manuals were developed and published by Professional Engineering Development Publications (PEDP).   Each volume covers a particular subject with each subject divided into various chapters. Each chapter covers important concepts in each subject with example problems and past PE examination problems. Even though past examination problems were available, solutions were not published. The teams of professors selected by IIT are not only expert scholars in their filed but also expert practitioners.  Thus the solutions developed by these professor are of exceptional values not available in University Textbooks.

 Changes to PE Licensing Examinations:

 Since early 1990’s, the licensing examinations as given by each State have been slowly taken over by NCEES. These examinations have now become almost all Multiple Choice Examinations and conducted at a National level. The topical content of each license is greatly enlarged. One has to answer 80 multiple choice examination problems 40 in the morning and 40 in the afternoon.  NCEES website www.ncees.com provides many details of the examination, syllabus etc. NCEES also publishes a sample examination booklet. It shows detailed syllabus and typical problems.

 PE License Seminars offered by IIT:

 IIT dropped offering several seminars after they became multiple choice exams and became National Exams. Now the capacity of IIT has increased and it can offer seminars nationwide and worldwide. As such beginning 2010, IIT restarted the seminars. All seminars are offered live in Irvine and they are recorded on web and stored in archives. IIT uses ADOBE Connect Pro software.

 Those who attend IIT seminars can revisit archives multiple times and review for further clarifications after the live seminars. IIT also guarantees that who take IIT seminars and those who study will pass the examinations.  Those who do not pass the first time they take the examination, will be given free access to the archived seminars for one year.

 PE (Electrical) Power License Examination:

 This seminar is offered twice – one for April exam (January 26, 2010 to March 30, 2010) and one for October Examination August 10, 2010 to October 12, 2010). The list of topics covered follows NCEES specifications. Each seminar runs for 30 hours on ten Tuesday evenings from 6:30 to 9:30 pm. People from anywhere in USA and in the world can attend. A sample of our webcast is shown on IIT website at www.irvine-institute.org by selecting Webcast Demo on home page.

 One can take the seminars live on site or from any off-site. Live off-site students can send any of their questions to Irvine site.  The instructor will review them during the break periods. For three hour evening programs there is one fifteen minute coffee-break at 8:00 pm and class ends at 9:15 pm. Others who cannot attend live programs, can access archived programs 24/7 from any place in the world connected by Internet.

 PE Electrical Power seminar follows the syllabus proclaimed by NCEES and divided into four modules. NCCES specifications include the topics covered. Each module is taught by a faculty who is an expert in that area. Solutions to 80 problems will be discussed by the instructors during their portion of the seminar. A table showing the instructor and the problem number is shown in attached table.

 The text books for the seminar are PE (Electrical) License manual Volume 1, and the PE Sample Questions and Solutions by NCEES.  The fee for the seminar is $595.00

 The Cost of the manual is $89.95 + $5.00 shipping. Sales Tax of 8.75% is added for CA residents. The Table of Contents of PEEE Volumes are attached. Detailed Section TOC’s are shown at www.irvine-institute.org. Please call Dr. Chelapati during afternoons if you need additional information.

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The NCEES also gave extensive references to the textbooks used in developing sample questions for Construction. IIT looked at these various publications suggested by the NCEES and extracted key chapters from the five textbooks. These key chapters now comprise IIT’s McGraw Hill Construction e-Book, which is a physically bound book printed for IIT through McGraw Hill and supplementary to the construction workbook and seminar.

The McGraw Hill e-Book is not required for the seminar, but it is strongly recommended that all those who are not familiar with ‘Construction Breadth and Depth’ buy this e-book. If students would like to learn more about any of the subjects in the chapters, either they or their company can buy the complete source textbooks from McGraw Hill.

Several sections in the construction seminar are based on powerpoint presentations. Though these powerpoints are not included in the workbooks, they will be presented in class for discussion.

Many people just want to pass the exam and do not even bother to learn the subject. Since the exams are now multiple choice, people think they can just pick one of the four choices at random without even reading the question and still possibly pass.

Our PE (Civil) manuals are very high quality. They impart the knowledge needed for the subject and contain many practical example problems, as well as past P.E. examination problems that were made public.

Our PECV Manuals were first developed in 1973 and are constantly updated with new codes, multiple choice questions, including the new subject Construction. They present the subject matter in an efficient and organized way, and present solutions to many practice problems and past exam questions. There is also a section for multiple choice problems on each subject.

All of the faculty members who teach our seminars are well respected scholars and practitioners. You can look at the qualification of these renowned practitioners by scanning their brief resumes on the ‘Faculty’ page of our website.

I would strongly suggest you study well, not only to pass the exam, but to really learn the subject matter well.

• Please register for all 7 PECV subjects (90 hours, $1,350.00)
• Order all seven workbooks, including the McGraw-Hill Construction e-Book
• If you are working toward a CA License, register for Seismic and Engineering Surveying seminars as well

As soon as you register, we will give access to all of the previous semester’s seminars, which are archived online on our website. You can access them 24/7, anywhere in the world.

To begin preparing, I recommend:

1.  Start with any of the 9 volumes.

2.  Go over the chapters in the volumes roughly to become familiar with the material that will be covered in the seminar.

3.  Review the archives. There is a time limit to access, so review for understanding rather than just logging in.

4. If you are not a Civil Engineering major, try to understand the basics of each subject on your own, if possible. This will make seminars more beneficial.

5.  Some subjects are more difficult than others. For difficult subjects like Structures, pay more attention to required areas like Structural Analysis instead of other Structural Design subjects. Seismic is another difficult subject that is on the CA exam.

6.  Once you enroll in our seminars, we guarantee that you will pass the exam the first time; otherwise, we will grant you free access to our archives for an additional year.

We hope all our registrants will learn the subject matter well and pass the exams their first time.

We are renowned educators, not simply booksellers. We want to help future engineers succeed.

I wish you the best in your studies and your career. You can call me, if you wish, during PM of PST.

Thanks,
CVC