FE Exam Practice – Drawing Free Body Diagrams

For the FE exam, visualizing different inflow and outflow parameters that contribute to the change in storage of a small watershed, lake, river, stream or any other water body is the most important step we need to understand before applying a water budget analysis. The goal of this post is to help us look visualize…

What is the purpose of a water tower? How tall must a water tower be? What is the pressure supplied by the water tower to the water supply system? These are all classic (fundamental) FE type problems you should prepare for before taking your FE exam. A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a…

Just like how there are ethical guidelines used by practitioners of medicine, science, finance, real-estate and law, an engineering professional is expected to obey these “ethical codes” in their respective practices. Modern codes for the practice of engineering place paramount priority on obligations to the public. There are several codes of ethics for engineers, in…

Polluted water can create major issues for humans and the natural world. Therefore, monitoring water quality is crucial to identify potential environmental problems and to develop effective preventative strategies and appropriate water treatment techniques. As we prepare for the FE Civil or FE Environmental Exam, we must understand the main indicators of water quality and…

  When we look at a beam carrying loads transverse to its axis will experienceshearing forces, denoted by V. In the analysis of beams, it is typical to calculate the variation in shearing force across the entire length of the beam by drawing the shear force diagram. With the shearing force known, we can calculate…