FE-Electrical-and-Computer
The FE exam is a computer-based test (CBT). It is closed book with an electronic reference.
Examinees have 6 hours to complete the exam, which contains 110 questions. The 6-hour time also
includes a tutorial and an optional scheduled break.
The FE exam uses both the International System of Units (SI) and the US Customary System
(USCS).
Mathematics (11-17 questions)
Probability and Statistics (4-6 questions)
Measures of central tendencies and dispersions (e.g., mean, mode, standard deviation)
Probability distributions (e.g., discrete, continuous, normal, binomial)
Expected value (weighted average) in decision making
Estimation for a single mean (e.g., point, confidence intervals, conditional probability)
Ethics and Professional Practice (3-5 questions)
Codes of ethics (professional and technical societies)
NCEES Model Law and Model Rules
Intellectual property (e.g., copyright, trade secrets, patents)
Engineering Economics (3-5 questions)
Time value of money (e.g., present value, future value, annuities)
Analysis (e.g., cost-benefit, trade-off, breakeven)
Properties of Electrical Materials (4-6 questions)
Chemical (e.g., corrosion, ions, diffusion)
Electrical (e.g., conductivity, resistivity, permittivity, magnetic permeability)
Mechanical (e.g., piezoelectric, strength)
Thermal (e.g., conductivity, expansion)
Engineering Sciences (6-9 questions)
Work, energy, power, heat
Charge, energy, current, voltage, power
Forces (e.g., between charges, on conductors)
Work done in moving a charge in an electric field (relationship between voltage and work)
Circuit Analysis (DC and AC Steady State) (10-15 questions)
Series/parallel equivalent circuits
Thevenin and Norton theorems
Waveform analysis (e.g., RMS, average, frequency, phase, wavelength)
Linear Systems (5-8 questions)
Frequency/transient response
Signal Processing (5-8 questions)
Convolution (continuous and discrete)
Sampling (e.g., aliasing, Nyquist theorem)
Electronics (7-11 questions)
Solid-state fundamentals (e.g., tunneling, diffusion/drift current, energy bands, doping bands, p-n theory)
Discrete devices (diodes, transistors, BJT, CMOS) and models and their performance
Amplifiers (e.g., single-stage/common emitter, differential)
Operational amplifiers (ideal, non-ideal)
Instrumentation (e.g., measurements, data acquisition, transducers)
Single phase and three phase
Transmission and distribution
Electromagnetics (8-12 questions)
Electrostatics/magnetostatics (e.g., measurement of spatial relationships, vector analysis)
Transmission lines (high frequency)
Electromagnetic compatibility
Control Systems (6-9 questions)
Block diagrams (feed-forward, feedback)
Closed-loop and open-loop response
Controller performance (gain, PID), steady-state errors
Communications (5-8 questions)
Basic modulation/demodulation concepts (e.g., AM, FM, PCM)
Fourier transforms/Fourier series
Multiplexing (e.g., time division, frequency division)
Computer Networks (3-5 questions)
Network topologies/frameworks/models
Digital Systems (7-11 questions)
Logic minimization (e.g., SOP, POS, Karnaugh maps)
Programmable logic devices and gate arrays
Data path/controller design
Timing (diagrams, asynchronous inputs, races, hazards)
Computer Systems (4-6 questions)
Architecture (e.g., pipelining, cache memory)
Memory technology and systems
Software Development (4-6 questions)
Software design methods (structured, object-oriented)
Software implementation (e.g., procedural, scripting languages)
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent
