PE (Electrical) Power License Seminars – NCEES
Spring 2010 – Tuesdays 6:30 to 9:30 pm PST
30 hours – 10 weekday nights
January 26, 2010 to March 30, 2010
Worldwide Broadcast – 24/7 Archives
Guaranteed pass or free archives to archives for One year
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.
