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FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGINEERING
SUPPLIED-REFERENCE HANDBOOK FIFTH EDITION
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2001 by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying® .
FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGINEERING
SUPPLIED-REFERENCE HANDBOOK FIFTH EDITION
Prepared by National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying® (NCEES®) 280 Seneca Creek Road P.O. Box 1686 Clemson, SC 29633-1686 Telephone: (800) 250-3196 Fax: (864) 654-6033 www.ncees.org
2001 by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying® . All rights reserved. First edition 1996 Fifth edition 2001
FOREWORD During its August 1991 Annual Business Meeting, the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) voted to make the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination an NCEES supplied-reference examination. Then during its August 1994 Annual Business Meeting, the NCEES voted to make the FE examination a discipline-specific examination. As a result of the 1994 vote, the FE examination was developed to test the lower-division subjects of a typical bachelor engineering degree program during the morning portion of the examination, and to test the upper-division subjects of a typical bachelor engineering degree program during the afternoon. The lower-division subjects refer to the first 90 semester credit hours (five semesters at 18 credit hours per