PE Study Exam: Mechanical Engineering: Machine Design and Materials

We are two professional engineers who took and passed the first revision of the updated 2017 PE exam for Mechanical Engineering-Machine Design and Materials, and we wanted to provide a resource to help fellow engineers study more efficiently for the test. This practice exam contains 80 problems we created that we believe are an excellent representation of the test. Looking back, we can see that working problems similar to the exam was the most beneficial thing we did to prepare because they got us familiar with the structure of the PE exam and showed us which topics we needed to study more; unfortunately, most of the materials we used to study had practice problems that were either too complicated, in strange formats, or led us to study unnecessary concepts. In other words, this is the study material that we wish we had while studying for the exam.