Mechanical PE Exam Review: Machine Design and Materials: Mechanical Engineering PE Exam Prep

This textbook was incredible! It provides a very comprehensive review of all of the concepts on the PE MDM exam. It covers the perfect amount of material per topic without wasting time on too many confusing details. The author did a wonderful job condensing the material and simplifying the concepts. I took the FE when I graduated 5 years ago so I was pretty rusty when I began studying for the PE. When I opened the NCEES practice exam I knew I was going to have a lot of issues studying independently. It took me about 4-5 weeks to complete this textbook and afterwards I felt very confident when working the NCEES practice test. I still had to sign up for the Kaplan review course on PPI so I could work practice problems and take another full length practice exam. However, this textbook greatly sped up my review and I am happy to say I passed my exam thanks to Dr. Kennedy!

A great refresher book for any engineer

I have passed my PE exam lately on 11/16/22, I recommend this book for everyone is taking the MDM PE exam. However, this book is missing the section for "Power Screws" .. the Lead (L) = n x P and the Lamda, this is a crucial part that so many problems may exist in the exam. Hope the author modifies this issue later on. Good effort by the way.

If you’re taking the MDM exam start with this book

My entire study plan consisted of going through this book, plus the NCEES practice exam. I also leafed through the "6 minutes solutions" booklet for maybe 30 minutes. For the exam itself I brought the aforementioned practice exams, the MERM, the FE Handbook and this book. I used only the last two for 95% of the problems. I passed on the first try pretty comfortably. This approach will not work for everyone, but if you found the FE easy and generally are a good test-taker you can pass with just this book plus a practice exam (30~40 hours total).

This book will help you pass the PE for MDM. Dr. Kennedy goes thoroughly through problems and provides explanation and details on to why he is doing the steps. The book was a great refresher on all the main topics covered on the PE MDM exam. I read through this book in its entirety a month before my exam and used this knowledge towards the practice exam and preformed very well. I was able to pass my PE exam on the first attempt and I owe it greatly to this book. P.S. Dr Kennedy responds promptly to emails regarding questions in the book and gave me a great explanation on a topic that I was stuck on, he is someone you can rely on in your studies.

This book covers a whole range of the most likely topics that you'll see on the PE exam, in a format that is easy to understand and execute when you're panicking. I ended up using this book for about 70% of the exam questions, with a copy of Shigley's to fill in on some of the more complicated problems. When you first open this book, you're going to be unimpressed. Most of the sketches are done by hand, and the whole thing feels cheap. I had to preemptively duct tape the cover because you could tell that it was going to tear without much use. But it's a small issue because the contents are great. I passed the exam on the first try. It's only $30, so you should quit being a cheapskate and just buy the thing.

I passed the PE exam on the first attempt. The difficulties of this book is very close to the actual PE exam I took in March 2022. This book also helped me reviewed most of the concepts. Spent about six weeks and with the average of 20 hours per week, I mainly used four books for the preparation. The books are: 1. this book, 2. Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual for PE exam, Edition 13, which was purchased in 2013. 3. PE Practice Exam from NCEES. This is also very similar to the difficulties of the exam. 4. pe-mec-handbook-1-4.pdf, the handbook downloaded from NCEES, which is the only reference during the exam. (I think 1-5 will be used starting 4/1/22.)