Electrical Engineering Review Manual: A Complete Review Course for the P.E. Examination for Electrical Engineers

by Raymond B. Yarbrough

Book Overview

Book by Yarbrough, Raymond B. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932276369
• ISBN13: 9780932276360
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Professional Publications Inc
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Superior Reference - Tailored to the P.E. -Worth Seeking Out

I used "Electrical Engineering Review Manual" by Yarbrough as a look up reference for the PE test. (ISBN = 0-932276-36-9). It was written specifically for the P.E. and was the only book I actually opened at the test. I would seek out this book despite being out-of-print.I have also used it as a quick reference many times in my consulting career.Some context: I never met a test I didn't like, graduated with BSEE from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1982, and found the P.E. to be sophomore-to-junior level with low-to-moderate difficulty and depth - with no significant time pressure - one hour average per problem. You can make the P.E. difficult if you only do one kind of problem. The PE is an engineering fundamentals test, which includes:Power, Digital logic, Communications, Integration, Filters, Op amp applications, Control systems/application of feedback, NEC (my 1994 test had a grounding problem)I remember doing problems as follows: 1) A freshman-level problem relating power and energy (first page of the test and shockingly rudimentary) 2) An integration problem - find the RMS value of a sine-wave 10V peak-to-peak, chopped at 65% - another freshman level problem 3) An op amp problem - find the rise time, calculate the value of feedback resistors, draw bode plot showing frequency response 4) A grounding problem using NEC (I DIDN'T HAVE MY NEC! But did the problem anyway since I'd been doing a lot of commercial design) 5) A Control Systems problem - classic transfer function with feedback problem 6) A Sallen and Key low-pass filter problem. 7) A power problem - transformer regulation with non-purely-resistive load. 8) ?A word of encouragement for prospective P.E.'s: Don't sweat that fact that you may not have prepared adequately - take it anyway. I delayed sitting for it because of this non-reason, and cost myself tens-of-thousands of dollars. Apply for it, don't tell anyone you're taking it, and go in with no pressure. Like Doritos tortilla chips "they'll make more" If you get a 69, you'll get to take the test again.I took the test with no preparation, walked out of the afternoon session (multiple choice) with one-and-one-half hours to spare, and got a 76 (laughing when I got the notice). Real-world consulting and my classes at Rose were and are far, far, more difficult. Go get `em!!