(78c) Testing for Competency - the Professional Engineering Examination
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2013
2013 Spring Meeting & 9th Global Congress on Process Safety
Liaison Functions
All About Professional Licensure... Motivations for Attaining the PE, the Processes Involved, Today's Critical Issues, and How Different State Laws Could Affect You
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 2:40pm to 3:10pm
The Principals and Practice of Engineering Examination (PE Exam) is one of the requirements for professional licensure. It is a nationwide exam used to ensure that licensed PE’s are “minimally competent”. Anne Bertelsmann, Ph.D., PE, (chair of the NCEES volunteer committee that prepares the Chemical PE Exam) will discuss the purpose of the PE Exam and the steps taken to ensure its validity. The presentation will start with an overview of the available discipline exams and a closer look at the content of the Chemical PE Exam and then move on to exam scoring. It will be shown how statistical analysis of the responses can indicate the ability of a question to measure competency. If you are concerned about “trick questions” on the exam or have ever wondered why it takes weeks to get a result for a computer scored exam, this talk will provide some answers.
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| AIChE Explorer Members | $225.00 |
| Non-Members | $225.00 |