Engineering Exam Prep

By Ran Chen, EA, CFP®

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Engineering Exam Prep is a free, daily podcast by OpenExamPrep covering the most in-demand engineering licensure exams — including FE Fundamentals of Engineering, FE Surveying, and the full PE catalog (Civil, Civil Geotechnical, Civil Construction, Civil Transportation, Civil Water Resources & Environmental, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Architectural, Agricultural & Biological, Control Systems, and more). Each 5-minute episode breaks down one exam topic with worked-style examples, NCEES Reference Handbook callouts, common exam traps, unit-conversion gotchas, and memory tricks to help you pass on your first attempt. No fluff, no filler — just the concepts you need to know, explained the way the exam tests them. This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation for everyone — from EITs studying for the FE to working engineers preparing for the PE. For free practice questions, AI-powered explanations, flashcards, and full study guides, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ Subscribe and listen daily — your PE license is closer than you think.

Episode Date
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 89, Hydraulic Pneumatic and Electromechanical Components
Oct 28, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 88, GD and T Limits Fits and Engineering Drawings
Oct 27, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 87, Springs Fasteners and Power Screws
Oct 26, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 86, Bearings Gears and Power Transmission
Oct 25, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 85, Shafts Pressure Vessels and Piping Design
Oct 24, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 84, Failure Theories and Design Safety Factors
Oct 23, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 83, Dynamic Response Stability and Feedback
Oct 22, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 82, Control Systems Block Diagrams and Transfer Functions
Oct 21, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 81, Measurement Uncertainty and Error Propagation
Oct 20, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 80, Sensors Transducers and Measurement Systems
Oct 19, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 79, Heat Exchangers LMTD and Effectiveness NTU
Oct 18, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 78, Thermal Radiation and View Factors
Oct 17, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 77, Convection Dimensionless Numbers and Correlations
Oct 16, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 76, Transient Conduction and Lumped Capacitance
Oct 15, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 75, Steady State Conduction and Thermal Resistance
Oct 14, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 74, Combustion Air Fuel and Energy Balances
Oct 13, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 73, Psychrometrics and HVAC Processes
Oct 12, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 72, Refrigeration and Heat Pump Cycles
Oct 11, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 71, Rankine Brayton and Otto Power Cycles
Oct 10, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 70, Second Law Entropy and Isentropic Efficiency
Oct 09, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 69, First Law for Steady Flow Devices
Oct 08, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 68, First Law for Closed Systems
Oct 07, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 67, Ideal Gases and Nonreacting Mixtures
Oct 06, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 66, Thermodynamic Properties and Property Tables
Oct 05, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 65, Dimensional Analysis Similitude and Affinity Laws
Oct 04, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 64, Pumps Fans Compressors and Performance Curves
Oct 03, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 63, Compressible Flow Mach Number and Nozzles
Oct 02, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 62, External Flow Drag Lift and Boundary Layers
Oct 01, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 61, Momentum Equation Jets and Fluid Forces
Sep 30, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 60, Pipe Networks Series Parallel and Minor Losses
Sep 29, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 59, Laminar Turbulent and Internal Pipe Flow
Sep 28, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 58, Energy Equation Head Loss and Pump Power
Sep 27, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 57, Continuity Bernoulli and Flow Measurement
Sep 26, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 56, Manometers Buoyancy and Fluid Statics
Sep 25, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 55, Fluid Properties Pressure and Hydrostatics
Sep 24, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 54, Material Selection Quality and Reliability
Sep 23, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 53, Corrosion Fatigue Fracture and Creep
Sep 22, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 52, Manufacturing Processes and Joining Methods
Sep 21, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 51, Phase Diagrams and Heat Treatment
Sep 20, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 50, Polymers Ceramics and Composite Materials
Sep 19, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 49, Ferrous and Nonferrous Engineering Metals
Sep 18, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 48, Material Properties and Stress Strain Curves
Sep 17, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 47, Column Buckling and Stability
Sep 16, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 46, Thermal Stress and Statically Indeterminate Members
Sep 15, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 45, Combined Loading and Pressure Vessel Stress
Sep 14, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 44, Stress Transformation and Mohr's Circle
Sep 13, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 43, Beam Deflection and Elastic Curves
Sep 12, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 42, Flexural Stress and Transverse Shear
Sep 11, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 41, Torsion of Shafts and Angle of Twist
Sep 10, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 40, Axial Stress Strain and Deformation
Sep 09, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 39, Shear and Moment Diagrams
Sep 08, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 38, Forced Vibration Resonance and Isolation
Sep 07, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 37, Free Vibration Natural Frequency and Damping
Sep 06, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 36, Mechanisms Gears and Relative Motion
Sep 05, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 35, Rigid Body Kinetics Force Acceleration
Sep 04, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 34, Rigid Body Kinematics Translation and Rotation
Sep 03, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 33, Linear Impulse Momentum and Impact
Sep 02, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 32, Work Energy Power and Efficiency
Sep 01, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 31, Particle Kinetics and Newton's Second Law
Aug 31, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 30, Particle Kinematics in Rectangular and Polar Coordinates
Aug 30, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 29, Static Friction Wedges Belts and Impending Motion
Aug 29, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 28, Centroids and Area Moments of Inertia
Aug 28, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 27, Frames Machines and Multi-Body Equilibrium
Aug 27, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 26, Trusses Method of Joints and Sections
Aug 26, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 25, Rigid Body Equilibrium and Support Reactions
Aug 25, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 24, Free Body Diagrams and Force Resultants
Aug 24, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 23, Motors Generators and Electromechanical Power
Aug 23, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 22, AC Circuits Impedance and Power
Aug 22, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 21, DC Circuits Kirchhoff Laws and Equivalent Resistance
Aug 21, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 20, Voltage Current Power and Electrical Fundamentals
Aug 20, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 19, Rate of Return Benefit Cost and Break Even
Aug 19, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 18, Present Worth Annual Worth and Future Worth
Aug 18, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 17, Cash Flows Interest and Economic Equivalence
Aug 17, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 16, Conflicts of Interest and Intellectual Property
Aug 16, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 15, Engineering Ethics and Public Safety
Aug 15, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 14, Statistics Regression and Confidence Intervals
Aug 14, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 13, Probability Distributions and Expected Value
Aug 13, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 12, Algorithms Logic and Engineering Computation
Aug 12, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 11, Numerical Methods Error and Approximation
Aug 11, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 10, Linear Algebra Matrices and Simultaneous Equations
Aug 10, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 09, Differential Equations and Laplace Transforms
Aug 09, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 08, Derivatives Integrals and Engineering Applications
Aug 08, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 07, Analytic Geometry Vectors and Coordinate Systems
Aug 07, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 06, Pacing Scoring and Retake Strategy
Aug 06, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 05, Approved Calculators Units and Equation Checks
Aug 05, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 04, FE Reference Handbook Search Strategy
Aug 04, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 03, CBT Rules Breaks and Exam-Day Workflow
Aug 03, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 02, Eligibility Registration and the EIT Path
Aug 02, 2026
FE Mechanical Exam Prep 01, Exam Format and NCEES Specifications
Aug 01, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 86, Traverse Computations — Bearings, Latitudes/Departures, Shoelace
Jul 22, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 85, Differential Leveling — HI Method and Closure
Jul 21, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 84, Construction Safety — OSHA Focus Four and Trenching
Jul 20, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 83, Earned Value — PV, EV, AC, CPI, SPI
Jul 19, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 82, Project Scheduling — CPM, Forward and Backward Pass
Jul 18, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 81, Air Quality — NAAQS Pollutants and Plume Dispersion
Jul 17, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 80, BOD, COD, DO Sag, Streeter-Phelps
Jul 16, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 79, Wastewater Treatment — Activated Sludge F/M Ratio
Jul 15, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 78, Drinking Water Treatment — Train of Processes
Jul 14, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 77, Signal Timing and Pavement Design
Jul 13, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 76, Highway Capacity — LOS, PHF, PCEs
Jul 12, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 75, Traffic Flow — Speed-Density-Flow and Greenshields
Jul 11, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 74, Earthwork — Mass Diagrams and Shrinkage
Jul 10, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 73, Vertical Curves — Crest vs Sag, K-Value
Jul 09, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 72, Horizontal Curves — Degree of Curve, Stationing
Jul 08, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 71, Geometric Design — Sight Distance, Superelevation
Jul 07, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 70, Lateral Earth Pressure, Bearing Capacity, Slope Stability
Jul 06, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 69, Shear Strength — Mohr-Coulomb and Triaxial
Jul 05, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 68, Consolidation — Cc, Cv, Time Rate
Jul 04, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 67, Effective Stress Principle
Jul 03, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 66, Permeability and Darcy's Law
Jul 02, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 65, Soil Compaction — Proctor Test, Optimum Moisture
Jul 01, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 64, Phase Diagrams — Void Ratio, Saturation, Unit Weights
Jun 30, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 63, Soil Classification — USCS and Atterberg Limits
Jun 29, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 62, Slabs and Development Length
Jun 28, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 61, Reinforced Concrete Columns — Tied vs Spiral, Interaction
Jun 27, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 60, Reinforced Concrete Beams — Whitney Stress Block
Jun 26, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 59, Steel Connections — Bolts (Bearing vs Slip-Critical) and Welds
Jun 25, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 58, Steel Column Design — Slenderness and Buckling
Jun 24, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 57, Steel Beam Design — Plastic Modulus and LTB
Jun 23, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 56, Loads — Dead, Live, Wind, Snow, Seismic per ASCE 7
Jun 22, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 55, ASD vs LRFD — Load Combinations and Factors
Jun 21, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 54, Stormwater Detention Sizing and Culvert Hydraulics
Jun 20, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 53, Unit Hydrograph and Storm Hydrograph
Jun 19, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 52, Hydrologic Cycle and the Rational Method Q = CiA
Jun 18, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 51, Open Channel Flow — Manning's Equation
Jun 17, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 50, Pump Curves, System Curves, NPSH and Cavitation
Jun 16, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 49, Pipe Flow — Major Losses (Darcy, Hazen-Williams) vs Minor Losses
Jun 15, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 48, Reynolds Number and the Moody Diagram
Jun 14, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 47, Continuity, Bernoulli, and Momentum
Jun 13, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 46, Buoyancy and Stability — Metacentric Height
Jun 12, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 45, Hydrostatic Pressure on Submerged Surfaces
Jun 11, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 44, Fluid Properties — Density, Viscosity, Surface Tension
Jun 10, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 43, Steel — ASTM Grades, Modulus, Heat Treatment
Jun 09, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 42, Concrete — Compressive Strength f'c and Mix Design
Jun 08, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 41, Stress-Strain Curves — Yield, Ultimate, Ductile vs Brittle
Jun 07, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 40, Mohr's Circle and Combined Loading
Jun 06, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 39, Shear and Moment Diagrams — Sign Convention Trap
Jun 05, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 38, Beam Bending — Flexure Formula and Section Modulus
Jun 04, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 37, Torsion of Circular Shafts — Stress, Twist, Power
Jun 03, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 36, Thermal Stress and Strain
Jun 02, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 35, Axial Stress and Strain, Hooke's Law, Poisson's Ratio
Jun 01, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 34, Mass Moment of Inertia and Rotational Kinetic Energy
May 31, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 33, Vibration — Natural Frequency, SDOF, Damping
May 30, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 32, Rigid Body Rotation — Angular Motion and Instantaneous Center
May 29, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 31, Rectilinear and Curvilinear Motion
May 28, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 30, Centroids, Moments of Inertia, and Friction
May 27, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 29, Frames and Machines — Multi-Force Members
May 26, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 28, Trusses — Method of Joints vs Method of Sections
May 25, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 27, Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies and Statical Determinacy
May 24, 2026
FE Civil Exam Prep 26, Resultants of Force Systems — 2D and 3D
May 23, 2026
FE Exam Prep 25, Impulse-Momentum and Coefficient of Restitution
May 22, 2026
FE Exam Prep 24, Work-Energy Theorem and Conservation of Energy
May 21, 2026
FE Exam Prep 23, Kinematics — Constant Acceleration and Projectile Motion
May 20, 2026
FE Exam Prep 22, Newton's Laws and Free Body Diagram Discipline
May 19, 2026
FE Exam Prep 21, Significant Figures and Sanity Checks
May 18, 2026
FE Exam Prep 20, SI vs US Customary — lbm vs lbf and the gc Factor
May 17, 2026
FE Exam Prep 19, Descriptive Statistics — Mean, Median, Variance, Confidence Intervals
May 16, 2026
FE Exam Prep 18, Probability Distributions — Binomial, Normal, Poisson
May 15, 2026
FE Exam Prep 17, Vectors in 3-Space — Magnitude, Unit Vectors, Direction Cosines
May 14, 2026
FE Exam Prep 16, Matrix Operations — Determinants, Inverse, Eigenvalues
May 13, 2026
FE Exam Prep 15, Differential Equations — First and Second Order, Laplace
May 12, 2026
FE Exam Prep 14, Integral Calculus — Substitution, Parts, Common Forms
May 11, 2026
FE Exam Prep 13, Differential Calculus — Critical Points, L'Hopital, Partials
May 10, 2026
FE Exam Prep 12, Analytic Geometry — Conics, Distance, Vectors
May 09, 2026
FE Exam Prep 11, Depreciation — Straight-Line, MACRS, Book Value
May 08, 2026
FE Exam Prep 10, NPV, IRR, Benefit-Cost Ratio — When Each Wins
May 07, 2026
FE Exam Prep 9, Time Value of Money — P/F, F/P, P/A, A/P, A/F, F/A Notation
May 06, 2026
FE Exam Prep 8, EIT Path to PE — State Variations
May 05, 2026
FE Exam Prep 7, Conflicts of Interest, Gifts, and Disclosure
May 04, 2026
FE Exam Prep 6, NCEES Model Rules — Hold Paramount Public Safety
May 03, 2026
FE Exam Prep 5, Scoring, Cut Score, and Retake Strategy
May 02, 2026
FE Exam Prep 4, Navigating the Reference Handbook v10.0.1
May 01, 2026
FE Exam Prep 3, NCEES-Approved Calculators — HP 35s, TI-36X Pro, Casio fx-115/991
Apr 30, 2026
FE Exam Prep 2, CBT Mechanics — Pearson VUE Check-in, On-Screen Calculator, Breaks
Apr 29, 2026
FE Exam Prep 1, What the FE Exam Is and Who Should Take It
Apr 25, 2026