PE Refresher Program

To promote Youth Education in the Kansas City community, the Greater Kansas City Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) is providing PE Review Materials to all members of the Greater Kansas City engineering community taking the NCEES Professional Course Exam.  The Greater Kansas City Post is in the midst of its eleventh session of sponsoring members through the SAME P.E. Refresher Course. The Post has prioritized youth education as a prime objective for growing the engineering profession in the greater Kansas City area. Since the inception of the program, the Post has sponsored a total of 135 individuals. Each session recruits new SAME members by advertising within the greater Kansas City area, but outside of the Post's regular communication channels. The program is free to all members of SAME. As a part of this program, the Post has proudly sponsored many students from the Command General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.

The Greater Kansas City SAME Post is utilizing the ASCE P.E. Exam Review Course. The Course will be offered at dates and times as agreed to by those taking the course. HDR's office near the Plaza will offer their space for this class on evenings. This is not a teaching course, rather a review or refresher course. And this is reflected in the course design. Each person chooses the topics they want to review for the exam. The topics are divided into modules with each module presenting a series of problems in exactly the format encountered on the exam.

The review course includes more than 50 hours of learning based on over 2,500 pages of scripts and storyboards, and now includes the new Construction Engineering Module. In addition to demonstration and practice problems, there are extensive video instructor walkthroughs of each requirement of a P.E. Exam situation, accompanied by on-screen displays of the corresponding formulas and equations. The course also includes electronic versions of all "visual aids" and reference materials that an engineer might take into the examination. These include complete sets of equations, formulas, graphs, tables, diagrams, and where applicable, video clips of sample tests. The course also incorporates an audio pronunciation glossary of Greek letters and an onscreen scientific calculator, as well as animated models and illustrations of key concepts and processes, such as Consolidation

ELIGIBILITY

All members of the local engineering community taking the NCEES Professional Engineering Exam are eligible. 

Open Registration Period - Open to ALL members of the Greater Kansas City area taking the NCEES Professional Engineering Exam. The next exam date is April 16, 2010.

TIMETABLE

A kickoff meeting will be held on Thurday, February 4, 2010 from 6pm-8pm for all individuals in this program to provide guidance in what to study, what not to study, test taking tips, what to bring, and what to expect on teh day of the test.

LOCATION: HDR Engineering

4435 Main Street, Suite 210

Kansas City, Missouri 64111

If you are interested in this course, please contact Ed Bristow at edward.bristow@hdrinc.com or 816.412.1314. Please indicate if you are a current member of the Greater KC Post. 

MEMBERSHIP

Non SAME Members are required to join the Society to become eligible for the refresher course.  Involvement in SAME committees is encouraged and attendance to at least one SAME event in the next year is required.

SAME applications can be submitted including a one-year SAME Young Member membership fee.  For information on SAME membership and the application, see the Membership page or contact Ron McCutcheon.

FAQ's ABOUT THE PE REFRESHER COURSE

Q: Is this program really free?  A: Yes.  The course is provided at no cost to you as a member of SAME.  New SAME members are required to join using the two-year membership to be eligible for the course.

Q: Why is SAME sponsoring this program? A : The primary reason is that the Greater Kansas City Post has made a commitment to furthering youth education in the local community.  This program will help foster developing professional engineers and build our engineering community.  We also have been fortunate to gain membership with this program. 

Q: SAME is providing me a great value, what can I do to give back to the organization?  Attend at least one SAME event and/or Contact Tom Poer, Post President to discuss SAME committee involvement.  The post has small and large tasks that need energetic volunteers.

MORE PE LINKS

●NCEES - National Council for Examination of Engineers and Surveyors
●Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects
●Kansas State Board of Technical Professions
●PPI - Professional Publications, Inc.
●Past test results

 

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