Every topic on the exam, explained in depth: intuition, key equations, worked examples, and the traps to avoid. Organized by the NCEES FE Environmental exam specification and cross-referenced to the FE Reference Handbook 10.6.
… exam areas
Analytic geometry and trigonometry, algebraic equations and roots, differential and integral calculus, differential equations, and numerical methods including error propagation.
Measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions, confidence intervals for a single mean, regression and curve fitting, and hypothesis testing.
Codes of ethics, public health, safety, and welfare, professional liability and licensure, compliance with environmental statutes (CWA, CAA, RCRA, CERCLA, SDWA, NEPA, OSHA), and the engineer's role in sustainability.
Time value of money and equivalence, cost types and breakdowns, benefit-cost, break-even, and life-cycle analyses, and project selection with depreciation and unequal lives.
Population projections and water, wastewater, and solid-waste demand calculations, ideal reactor models (CSTR, batch, plug flow), and materials science including properties and corrosion.
Stoichiometry and chemical equilibrium, acid-base and oxidation-reduction reactions, pC-pH diagrams, reaction kinetics, organic chemistry, and multimedia partitioning by Henry's law and the octanol-water coefficient.
Dose-response toxicity for carcinogens and noncarcinogens, exposure routes and pathways and chronic daily intake, and occupational health including PPE and noise exposure.
Fluid statics, closed-conduit flow (Darcy-Weisbach, Hazen-Williams, Moody), open-channel flow (Manning), pumps and blowers, flow measurement with weirs and orifices, and the Bernoulli and continuity equations.
First and second laws, energy, heat, and work, efficiencies and coefficient of performance, conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer, and the behavior of ideal gases.
Runoff and the rational method, time of concentration and IDF curves, detention and retention storage sizing, channel and reservoir routing, water-quality modeling (Streeter-Phelps, eutrophication), and the water budget.
Aquifer properties and hydrogeology, Darcy's law and seepage velocity, well drawdown (Theis, Jacob, Thiem, Dupuit), and soil, sediment, and groundwater remediation.
Water and wastewater characteristics, mass balance and removal-efficiency loading rates, physical, chemical, and biological treatment processes, sludge treatment and handling, and water conservation and reuse.
Ambient and indoor air quality, mass and energy balances, emission factors and rates, atmospheric dispersion and stability classes, and gas and particulate control technologies.
Solid waste management, collection, and disposal, landfill leachate and gas, mass and energy balances, hazardous waste compatibility, site characterization, and waste treatment and disposal.
Conventional and alternative energy source concepts and the environmental impacts of energy production, including greenhouse gas emissions, carbon footprint, and thermal and water demands.