PPI PE Civil Reference Manual, 16th Edition, A Comprehensive Civil Engineering Review Book

just started reading it seeking my PE and I think it will do the work and prepare me for the PE exam.

Ayuda mucho con los conceptos sin tener que entrar a todos los codigos.

Has everything you need for the Breadth portion of the Civil PE Exam. In my opinion, it is more expensive than it needs to be but it gets the job done. Has an index to look things up. If you make use of that and tabs you place in the book to mark locations of interest, you should have no problem passing the breadth portion. The condition of my book was brand new and so far has showed no signs of falling apart.

I received this book today, opened the package and was immediately a little disappointed with the quality. I thought this was supposed to be a new book. The cover and spine are scratched, a couple corners are bent, and there are stains on a couple of the first few pages (I haven’t looked at all the pages yet). Either way, I will be keeping this because the price was decent and my PE exam is coming up. Otherwise, this is the book I wanted.

This is a must have reference for the PE exam.Though it's not a very good study book/guide.

I used this religiously while studying. There is a lot of extra information in this, but as long as you know how to find different information within it, you'll be fine. There is no way to go through and understand everything in this. The key is being able to know where to go to get it. Easiest way to do that is to tab the book. Would for sure recommend to anyone taking the exam!

I started to study for the PE out of this book, but when I found out the PE is now CBT (computer-based) and CLOSED BOOK, this became much, much less valuable. The wide range of topics makes it an excellent reference book for an office setting, but it isn't the helpful exam prep and reference that it used to be. There is way, way more information than on the exam and many more topics than the NCEES guidelines. I would wait for a new addition that caters to the CBT if your intent is to use this to study.

Pretty comprehensive and a must have for the PE exam. The index is well-organized compared to many other engineering manuals which is a huge plus.The appendix page numbers in the index are usually off (higher than actual page number by 3-5 pages). There must have been some references removed between versions.