Engineering Reviews

Penn State New Kensington offers review programs for Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) and Professional Engineer (PE). These programs can be customized and brought on-site to your workplace.

Why Become a Licensed Professional Engineer?

  • Demonstrate the highest levels of dedication and professionalism in their field
  • Increase earning potential by as much as 27 percent as compared to non-licensed colleagues
  • Qualify to perform engineering consulting in all 50 states. May help maintain employment in times of restructuring, downsizing, and outsourcing.

Why Take a Review Course Through Penn State?

  • Penn State has prepared engineers for their professional examinations for more than forty years.
  • Reviews are comprehensive, covering many subjects in-depth.
  • Programs employ a collection of problems and solutions from past exams, familiarizing students with formats and procedures.

If you have a cohort of employees, any of these reviews can be conducted on-site at your company.

Announcement: The specifications for the PE Mechanical Exams have been revised. The students will now have 3 separate exams and reviews to choose from: PE Mechanical Thermal & Fluids; PE Mechanical Machine Design & Materials; PE Mechanical HVAC & Refrigeration. There is no longer a common AM breadth exam. There are now 3 separate exams.

Upcoming Courses:

PE Mechanical Machine Design & Materials

  • Location: Penn State New Kensington Campus with virtual option

  • Dates:  TBD

  • Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm

  • Course Duration: 14 Weeks/42 Hours

  • Cost: $900.00

Please call 724 334-6011 or email [email protected] for more information.

FE Civil Engineering Review EIT 5513 (51 Hours)

Pennsylvania requires that every engineer, with or without a college degree, must pass the FE examination as the first step toward licensure in the state. 

  • Dates: Wednesdays, November 9, 2022 - March 15, 2023
  • Time: 6 - 9 p.m.
  • Delivery: Live instruction via Zoom Classroom
  • Cost: $1,829 (includes textbooks)

Please call 724 334-6011 or email [email protected] for more information.

PE Civil Engineering Review CE 5511 (48 Hours)

This Professional Engineering Review course will cover the Civil Engineering PE Exam. Topics covered include: highways and surveying, hydraulics, sanitary, structures engineering economics, and soils. 

  • Dates: Tuesdays, February 28, 2023 - June 13, 2023
  • Time: 6 - 9p.m.
  • Delivery: Live instruction via Zoom Classroom. 
  • Cost: $1,799 (includes textbooks)

Please call 724 334-6011 or email [email protected] for more information.


PE Exams - Application deadlines are July 1 & December 1.

FE Exams   Offered year round at Pearson VUE test centers.  Can register anytime.  No deadlines.