What you’ll find inside
Civil Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam, 14th Edition by Michael R. Lindeburg, PE is a broad civil engineering study reference. The supplied Professional Publications (PPI) title page identifies this as the fourteenth edition. Check that edition against your study plan and the current exam specification before relying on an older reference.
Broad civil engineering coverage
The contents organize material into topic areas that include background and support, water resources, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, transportation, construction, and systems, management and professional practice. Supporting sections include engineering mathematics and drawing, unit conversions, reference tables and appendices. This layout is designed to let readers revisit fundamentals across multiple civil disciplines and use the manual as a structured study companion.
A reference manual can help organize review, but it cannot guarantee exam readiness or replace practice with the applicable current standards. Codes, exam specifications and testing procedures may change after a book’s publication. PPI’s current PE Civil guidance explains that the exam is computer based and candidates receive a digital reference handbook during the test; this supplied fourteenth-edition manual should therefore be treated as a study resource, not as an item permitted in the exam room. Verify current requirements with NCEES and your licensing board.
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ISBN and edition details
ISBN for this edition (reference): 9781591264583
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Jared Marugg –
Absolutely necessary for the PE morning exam session, and a great desk reference thereafter. The ebook contains significantly more information than you’ll need for the exam, so work through the NCEES specifications of exam topics instead of working through this ebook cover-to-cover. I took the structural depth section and never opened this ebook in the afternoon. I’d recommend William’s Structural Engineering Reference Manual (SERM) for the afternoon session.
Runnerchica –
This manual served as my primary resource for the April 2016 PE Exam, which I passed on the first try. I highly recommend using this manual as your main source, along with highlighter markers, post-it notes/tabs, and a binder in which to place photocopies of key tables. The test will indeed require additional sources (hydraulic design, hydrology, water and wastewater, soils, and concrete design for me), but the manual is still pretty comprehensive. As I worked through the manual, I tabbed important pages and highlighted key equations. The test through its fair share of curve balls, but I was prepared. I was even able to answer several questions by using the index. My advice is to buy this ebook (I am keeping mine as a reference forever), work out a loose study schedule based on the number of weeks you have, work as many problems as you can, write out outlines of concepts that you have studied, and take practice exams if you have access. I also recommend YouTube. Civil Engineering Academy was a great supplement to my studying. Good luck to everyone!
Sully –
This ebook was such a big help. It was one of the most important ebooks and the one I used the most during the test. I also saw other people at the test had purchased the same ebook or had an older copy. I really like this ebook. It is very helpful and a good ebook just to have on your shelf to reference when you need it.
Bb –
I gave it three stars because I took the Construction Depth exam, and this reference has very little construction information. I highly recommend buying a separate construction study guide. However, this reference was quite useful to me during the morning exam for the non-construction problems. HUGE reference, and it has way more information than you would need for any PE exam. I do not recommend using this as a study guide (except for the example problems), just a pure reference like the design standards. Once you narrow down the sections specific to your exam, the material is very useful. Some of the problems were representative of the exam, and others were so complex, they could never be solved in the average 6 minutes per problem (at least not by me). It is good to work those more complex problems for your depth area, so you have a better understanding of the topic. For the exam though, you might have to do two or three steps of those really complex problems.
Dan B –
This ebook is a MUST HAVE for the Civil Professional Engineer Exams. It is a handy reference that I suspect I will continue to use for many years to come; however, its main use is in preparation for and passing of the PE Exam. While passing is possible without this reference, it woudl be difficult. Addionally, the publisher provides a very useful website with additonal resources like a printable index so you can reference it separate from the ebook (very helpful during the exam). I highly recommend this ebook for the exam and as a general reference for other engineers like myself.
Guy Lavoie –
the best for the canadian university of ingineering civil