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York campus to offer review course for engineering exam

Penn State York is offering a new course for fall, Fundamentals of Engineering Review (EMET 402), designed to prepare current students, graduates, and professionals in the engineering field to take the Fundamentals for Engineering Exam (FE).  Marshall Coyle, associate professor of engineering, right, is one of the instructors for the course which begins Aug. 24. Credit: Barbara Dennis / Penn StateCreative Commons

Penn State York is offering a new technical engineering course for fall, Fundamentals of Engineering Review (EMET 402). Current students with seventh semester standing or higher, engineering graduates, and others in this engineering field are eligible to take the course. This two-credit course, offered from 5 to 5:50 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, is a review of material designed to help participants prepare for the Fundamentals for Engineering Exam (FE). The course begins Aug. 24.

Fundamentals of Engineering will be taught by three members of the engineering faculty at the campus, Marshall Coyle, associate professor of engineering; Charles Gaston, assistant professor of engineering; and Michael Marcus, associate professor of engineering. This team-taught course is intended to provide students with an overview of topics covered on the morning portion of the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam. Passage of the exam, administered twice per year by the National Council for Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES), is the first step toward Professional Engineering (P.E.) licensure. Since students have already taken courses that cover all of the subject areas, this course merely serves as a review of these topics in order to help the student prepare for the exam.   The exam is designed for recent graduates and students who are close to finishing an undergraduate engineering degree.

Students are urged to take the exam soon after completion of this course. The cost for the exam is $225. Those who wish to take the FE exam must be graduates of a college whose baccalaureate engineering program is accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) at the time of graduation. Penn State York’s electro-mechanical engineering technology (EMET) is fully accredited.

For more information on this course, contact Michael Marcus at mxm81@psu.edu or call 717-771-4089. Current students may register for the course online. To register as a nondegree-seeking student, call the Penn State York Registrar’s office at 717-771-4050. For more information on the FE exam, visit http://ncees.org/exams/fe-exam/. 

Last Updated August 6, 2015