TMS Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Professional Engineer (PE) Licensing Exam Review Course

August 1–4, 2018 • Kimpton Hotel Monaco Pittsburgh • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Course Curriculum

Course Outline

The TMS Metallurgical and Materials Engineering PE Licensing Exam Review Course will address a variety of approaches and methodologies, including design, analysis, application, and operations. This course will review the following topical areas:

Review of basics crystal structures, chemistry and phase diagrams
Physical Metallurgy
- The Fe-C Diagram as a model phase diagram
- Crystal structures in steel
- Diffusion (including Fick’s first law, gradients, coefficients, atom type, and effect of T)
- Phase transformations- diffusion- and sheer-controlled
Physical
- Hardness, strength, alloying & heat treatment
- Heat treatments for ductility, hardening
- Surface hardening
- Low toughness and embrittlement
Mechanical/States of Stress
- Two-dimensional & three-dimensional states of stress
- Poisson’s Ratio & relationship between elastic constraints
- Stress-strain relations & plane strain
Processing
- Basic process (raw materials, mold making, melting)
- Process characteristics (disposable and permanent molds)
- Product characteristics (shrinkage, distortion, porosity, allowances)
- Cold work (recovery, recrystallization, grain growth, property changes, in process control)
Chemical analysis techniques, metallography
Performance
- Arrhenius behavior and predicting transformation times
- Creep and high temperature flow
- Ductile to brittle transition
- Using standards and specifications
Mechanical Behavior of Composites & Heterogeneous Material and High-Temperature Degradation
- Various composite forms of materials
- Elastic modules in fiber-reinforced composites
- Composite strengthening
- High-temperature oxidation, corrosion mechanisms (including metal dusting)
- Creep-fracture and stress rupture
- Radiation-induced degradation

Prediction
- Fitness for service
- Life prediction and modeling
- Life extension
- Application of techniques to assess remaining life for local thinning, brittle fracture, plastic collapse, and time-dependent damage
Testing and Analysis
- Failure analysis (including overstress, fatigue, corrosion, embrittlement, deformation, and polymers/composites)
- Wear mechanisms
- Interpreting testing data
Corrosion Mechanisms & Environmental Compatibility
- General, galvanic, pitting, intergranular, erosion, and microbiologically induced corrosion
- Selective leaching
- Environment assisted cracking
- Hydrogen damage
- Electrochemistry
- Environmental testing methods
- Environmentally assisted cracking
Plastics & Statistics
- Polymers and strengthening mechanisms for polymers & reinforced polymers
- Plastics and polymer processing, standards, and specifications
- Statistical quality control methods
- Industrial safety practice
Joining Processes/Coatings
- Welding, soldering, brazing, bonding processes
- Coatings (corrosion & wear resist, cosmetic)
- Application Method (diffusion, dipping, spray, flow, chemical conversion)

This course will not provide specific exam questions, but rather is a review of exam specifications and knowledge areas and will provide practice and group work on sample problems. The program will help potential exam-takers identify which areas are strengths and which areas to focus their studying, saving time in the months leading up to the exam. In 2017, 70% of first-time takers and 36% of repeat takers passed the PE Metallurgical and Materials exam. Learn more about exam pass rates from NCEES.

About the Exam

The Metallurgical and Materials Engineering version of the Principals and Practice of Engineering (PE) Licensing Exam is the second part of the licensing examination’s requirement toward becoming a registered professional engineer. The first part is the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) written examination. The PE Licensing Exam is administered by state licensure boards, which are provided the test instrument by the National Council on Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). The NCEES is responsible for scoring the examinations. The exam itself is developed by volunteer members of the TMS Professional Registration Committee.