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FE Other Disciplines (NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering) Exam Cram Sheet (2026)
The highest-yield points on the FE Other Disciplines (NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering)exam, grouped by the exam's real content areas. Print it, review the ones you keep missing, then drill them with free practice questions.
110questions
360 mintime limit
14content areas
Fluid Mechanics
12% of the exam- Fluid properties and specific weight
- Fluid statics: pressure with depth
- Buoyancy and submerged forces
- Continuity and volumetric flow
- The Bernoulli energy equation
- Flow regime, friction, and open channels
Statics
9% of the exam- Force vectors and components
- Resultants of concurrent forces
- Moments and couples
- Equilibrium and free-body diagrams
- Trusses, frames, and supports
- Friction and area properties
Dynamics
9% of the exam- Kinematics of constant acceleration
- Projectile motion
- Kinetics: Newton's second law
- Work and energy
- Impulse and momentum
- Rotation and normal (centripetal) acceleration
Strength of Materials
9% of the exam- Stress, strain, and Hooke's law
- Axial deformation
- Beams: shear, moment, and bending stress
- Torsion of circular shafts
- Factor of safety and failure criteria
- Column buckling and combined loading
Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
9% of the exam- The first law and energy balances
- Ideal-gas behavior
- The second law, entropy, and processes
- Cycles: engines, refrigerators, and heat pumps
- Conduction, convection, and radiation
- Phase change and latent heat
Mathematics
8% of the exam- Differential calculus
- Integral calculus
- Linear algebra and matrices
- Analytic geometry and trigonometry
- Vectors and complex numbers
- Differential equations and numerical methods
Probability and Statistics
6% of the exam- Probability fundamentals
- Combining events: AND and OR
- Descriptive statistics
- Discrete distributions
- The normal distribution
- Estimation and hypothesis testing
Safety, Health, and Environment
6% of the exam- Industrial hygiene and exposure limits
- Radiation and half-life
- Confined spaces and atmospheric hazards
- Fire safety
- Hazard communication and the GHS
- Energy control and noise
Engineering Economics
6% of the exam- Simple versus compound interest
- Single-payment time value of money
- Uniform series (annuities)
- Nominal and effective interest rates
- Comparing alternatives
- Depreciation and after-tax analysis
Materials
6% of the exam- Mechanical properties and the stress–strain curve
- Thermal behavior and thermal stress
- Crystal structures and packing
- Phase diagrams and the lever rule
- Phase transformations and the iron–carbon system
- Failure, corrosion, and selection
Basic Electrical Engineering
6% of the exam- Ohm's law and electrical power
- Series and parallel resistances
- Kirchhoff's laws and dividers
- Capacitors and inductors
- AC circuits and impedance
- Three-phase power
Chemistry
5% of the exam- Moles, molar mass, and stoichiometry
- Acids, bases, and pH
- Oxidation states and redox
- Solutions and concentration
- The ideal-gas law and gas behavior
- Equilibrium, kinetics, and the periodic table
Engineering Ethics and Societal Impacts
5% of the exam- The fundamental canons
- Competence and the professional seal
- Faithful agency and conflicts of interest
- Public safety and the duty to disclose
- Truthful public statements and confidentiality
- Licensure, law, and societal impact
Instrumentation and Controls
4% of the exam- Temperature sensors
- Other sensors and measurement principles
- Signal conditioning and data acquisition
- Sampling and the Nyquist theorem
- Feedback control and controller modes
- System response and logic control
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