I passed FE exam when I was a Master’s student at the University of Toledo, Ohio. In 2001, I passed the exam in the first attempt and scored 91. This is mostly because I was working as a part time tutor at the university and depending upon the need and demand of the students, I taught almost every undergraduate subject in my two years of study there. Keeping touch with the basics definitely helps a lot.

In 2003, I met a 46-year old Civil Engineer who migrated to US for better job prospects, but ended up doing construction labor work. He had worked on several mega projects at supervisory level in his home country, and someone told him, if he passes FE exam, he can get much better job based on his previous education and work experience. At that time, I was working as assistant professor at Daytona Beach Community College (Now renamed as Daytona State College). Someone recommended him to me. I guided him in the common courses as well as for Fluid, Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials, etc. He passed in the first attempt and scored 75. After seeing how much happiness this brought in his and his family’s life, I decided to collect all study material and organize in a nice folder.

I decided that if I make a website, then this would help more people.

Next several years, I studied coding and Free and Open Source Software (such as Wordpress, Joomla and eventually settled for Drupal)

While presenting scientific equations and diagrams, I realized that Latex is the de facto standard and integration with a website was not that easy.

In 2017, I helped one of my undergraduate students to pass this exam in Mechanical discipline.

........ To be continued..in Part-II