NCEES-PE-Civil-WRE Exam Information and Guideline
NCEES PE Civil Engineering: Water Resources and Environmental
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- Quantity take-off methods
- Cost estimating
- Project schedules
- Activity identification and sequencing
- Economic and sustainability analysis
- present worth
- lifecycle costs
- comparison of alternatives
- Lateral earth pressure
- Soil consolidation and compaction
- Bearing capacity
- Settlement
- Slope stability
- Soil classification and boring log interpretation
- Soil properties
- strength
- permeability
- compressibility
- phase relationships
- Concrete
- nonreinforced
- reinforced
- Piping materials
- Material test methods and specification conformance
- Mass balance
- Hydraulic loading
- Solids loading
- sediment loading
- sludge
- Hydraulic flow measurement
- Energy and/or continuity equation
- Bernoulli
- grade line analyses
- momentum equation
- Pressure conduit
- single pipe
- force mains
- Hazen-Williams
- Darcy-Weisbach
- major and minor losses
- Pump application and analysis
- wet wells
- lift stations
- cavitation
- Pipe network analysis
- series
- parallel
- loop networks
- Open-channel flow
- Hydraulic grade lines and energy dissipation
- plunge pool
- drop structure
- culvert outlet
- Stormwater collection and drainage
- culvert
- stormwater inlets
- gutter flow
- street flow
- storm sewer pipes
- Sub- and supercritical flow
- Storm characteristics
- storm frequency
- rainfall measurement
- distribution
- Runoff analysis
- rational
- SCS/NRCS methods
- Hydrograph development and applications, including synthetic hydrographs
- Rainfall intensity, duration, frequency, and probability of exceedance
- Time of concentration
- Rainfall and stream gauging stations
- Depletions
- evaporation
- detention
- percolation
- diversions
- Stormwater management and treatment
- detention and retention ponds
- infiltration
- swales
- constructed wetlands
- Aquifers
- Groundwater flow
- Well and drawdown analysis
- Stream degradation and oxygen dynamics
- Total maximum daily load (TMDL)
- nutrient contamination
- DO
- load allocation
- Biological and chemical contaminants