I'm working hard to get a new Guidebook edition to Amazon by month end. It matches the 80 problems in the 2018 Companion #5 & #6, and has new subjects that I've added upon request from many who used the Guidebook last year.
I'll try to set up an exchange for old Guidebooks (as I've always done) once I have the new books in hand. My goal has always been to help engineers (via blog, Guidebook, and Companion problems) and I hope to continue the tradition as time allows.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Resources...
A quick PE exam note from yesterday: I volunteered 7 hrs at the nearby BOEM office to instruct local PE exam test-takers. Great folk; I enjoyed meeting all (one was even a prior COP coworker, which was a pleasant surprise).
Why I tell the story? It was a nice sunny day so I decided to walk. My wife offered to come and pull my books in her bike trailer, so I put them in. Let me tell you: there was no curb-jumping on that trip! The trailer creaked. It held the entire SPE Handbook Series, SPE Textbook Series, Bradley, the Hyne Dictionary and a few others plus my Guidebook. I'm pretty sure we exceeded the weight limit...you can see a picture of most these books on the cover here.
Look, I don't recommend using all these resources on the exam itself unless you already have them, they are well marked and tabbed, and you are disciplined enough to resist flipping pages when you get stuck. But it was instructive, even a bit frightening, to see the weight of it all. Good thing I had coincidentally done my deadlift workout that morning...that was just a warm-up!
Why I tell the story? It was a nice sunny day so I decided to walk. My wife offered to come and pull my books in her bike trailer, so I put them in. Let me tell you: there was no curb-jumping on that trip! The trailer creaked. It held the entire SPE Handbook Series, SPE Textbook Series, Bradley, the Hyne Dictionary and a few others plus my Guidebook. I'm pretty sure we exceeded the weight limit...you can see a picture of most these books on the cover here.
Look, I don't recommend using all these resources on the exam itself unless you already have them, they are well marked and tabbed, and you are disciplined enough to resist flipping pages when you get stuck. But it was instructive, even a bit frightening, to see the weight of it all. Good thing I had coincidentally done my deadlift workout that morning...that was just a warm-up!
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