NCEES PE Civil Exam Specifications and Design Standards
NCEES
Official page for the PE Civil exam. Lists specification PDFs for all five specialties — construction, geotechnical, structural, transportation, water resources and environmental — the design standards supplied onscreen during testing, and current pass-rate tables.
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FE Civil Review
Topic-by-topic review manual mapped to the NCEES FE Civil specification, cross-referencing each equation, figure and table back to its location in the FE Reference Handbook. Includes over 300 worked practice problems with step-by-step solutions.
FE Review Civil, Greg Michaelson 2020 Playlist
Recorded FE Civil review lectures from a Marshall University civil engineering professor, worked against the NCEES specification: mathematics, statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, structural analysis, geotechnical engineering, fluid mechanics, surveying and engineering economics.
EngineerBoards — Professional Engineer & PE Exam Forum
Long-running forum for FE and PE candidates, with discipline-specific subforums for civil construction, geotechnical, structural, transportation and water resources. Contains detailed post-exam study plans, material reviews and pass reports across roughly 890,000 messages. Where the study-strategy signal actually lives: which practice exams track the real thing, how many hours per week, which books went stale after the 2024 CBT transition.
NCEES FE Exam — Official Exam Page and Specifications
Official FE exam page covering format — 110 questions over five hours twenty minutes at Pearson VUE test centers — the discipline-specific specification PDFs, registration requirements listed per state licensing board, and results timelines.
NCEES Exam Reference Handbooks (FE & PE)
NCEES publishes the FE and PE reference handbooks that appear onscreen during the exams. This page links the free PDF downloads through a MyNCEES account, covering every discipline, plus printing and version notes.