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INTRODUCTION

To help you prepare for the PE Exam, ASCE and SmartPros, Ltd. (formerly KeepSmart.com, Inc.) have created this multimedia electronic learning course in cooperation with the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section (BSCES), featuring seven of top civil engineering instructors.

This is not a teaching course, it's a review course, a refresher. And this is reflected in its design. First of all, it's up to you to choose the topics you want to review for the exam. These topics are divided into modules, each presenting a series of problems-in exactly the format you will encounter them on the actual PE Exam. The course materials are updated regularly to ensure that they conform to the current PE Exam format and content.

You'll start with a demonstration exam problem. You can call on as much or as little help as you need to solve this problem, including getting the instructor (in full-motion video) to walk you through the problem step by step. Then you'll progress to a practice problem with minimal help available. Finally, you'll take a posttest, where you'll be on your own. Of course, the beauty of this type of electronic learning is that should you fail the posttest, you can simply go back and review the module again, then re-take the posttest.

California Special
If you are ordering the complete PE Exam Review Course for the California Exam, you will also receive, AT NO CHARGE, "Seismic Design of Building Structures: A Professional's Introduction to Earthquake Forces and Design Details, 8th ed."

Licensing Information

Your right to access and use this product is personal to you and is not transferable by you to any other person or entity. CD Keys and Online access codes are valid for one year only. You are only entitled to access and use this product and/or the online program for lawful purposes and pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Agreement. Your access and use may be interrupted from time to time for any of several reasons, including, but not limited to, the malfunction of SmartPros Ltd. equipment, periodic updating, maintenance or repair activities that SmartPros may undertake from time to time, or other actions that SmartPros, in its sole discretion, may elect to take. SmartPros reserves the right to suspend or discontinue the availability of the online program for access and use at any time in its sole discretion and without prior notice to you.

This is a mammoth undertaking: seven complete topics in one package, averaging approximately seven hours of instruction each, for a total of approximately 50 hours of learning based on over 2,500 pages of scripts and storyboards.

The SmartPros, Ltd. team of a dozen instructional designers worked over a period of eight months with the seven BSCES instructors who present the live classroom version of the course. Their goal: to convert the classroom course into an interactive multimedia experience that simulates taking the real-life PE Exam.

In addition to demonstration and practice problems, there are extensive video instructor walkthroughs of each requirement of a PE Exam situation, accompanied by on-screen displays of the corresponding formulas and equations.

The course also includes electronic versions of all the "visual aids" and reference materials that an engineer might take into the examination. These include complete sets of equations, formulas, graphs, tables, diagrams, and where applicable, video clips of sample tests. The course also incorporates an audio pronunciation glossary of Greek letters and an onscreen scientific calculator, as well as animated models and illustrations of key concepts and processes, such as Consolidation.

COURSE DELIVERY AND SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

The PE Exam Review Course is available as follows:

• as a standalone set of six CD-ROMs for PC platforms, or
• if you have access to a high-speed Internet/Intranet connection, you may take the entire course online.

Multimedia PC Equipped with:

• 133 MHz Speed Processor
• 800 x 600 Display Resolution
• 16 bit (thousands) Color Graphics
• 32 MB RAM
• Intel or Equivalent Pentium CPU running Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 or above O/S, or Macintosh PowerPC, G3 CPU running MAC O/S 7.0 or higher.

COURSE TOPICS AND INSTRUCTORS

• Sanitary and Environmental Engineering: Ron Sharpin
• Geotechnical Engineering: Bob Palermo
• Surveying: Bob Ashburn
• Hydrology and Hydraulics: Gary Mercer
• Structures: Bashar Altabba
• Transportation: Rick Bryant
• Economics: Sue Freeman

Animated 3-D Digital Terrain Model from the Surveying topic.
Courtesy INTERGRAPH CORPORATION.

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