Over the years, my department has asked me to give a review session for my students before they take the FE exam. In this time of COVID, I’ve committed all my other lectures to video, and this one is now no exception:
The slide presentation that goes with this is here.
I mention a few of things in the intro I’d like to elaborate on:
- About ten years ago, it was brought to my attention that my students weren’t doing well on the FE Exam geotechnical section. My response to that was simple: “I’ll fix that problem.” I did that by aligning what I taught in class with what was in the FE “cheat sheet” (I’m sure NCEES loves that designation.) I don’t subscribe to the idea that we should only be “teaching to the test” but the FE exam’s geotechnical requirements are pretty basic, so that wasn’t much of a conflict. What has been tricky is that they’ve shifted around what they require over the years. But my students’ performance on the test has improved.
- Since COVID I’ve put my lectures online. If you need to investigate some topics in detail, I’ve got them either at my Soil Mechanics or Foundations pages.
- Once you’ve digested what’s presented in the video, you can and should solve sample problems. I just don’t recommend that you start your preparation doing that.
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