Reference Materials for the Exam

In 2006, the Engineering Licensure committee, ED-414, approved publication of the list of primary references used in developing the exam.

For 2007 and future exams, the list of primary references will be made public. The list does not include basic topics such as calculus, chemistry, statics, dynamics, etc.

The list includes references for each topic area.

Examinees should judge which of the texts they can effectively use. Examinees will naturally choose the more advanced references in their fields of practice and may choose only the basic references for those fields with which they are less familiar.

Users of equivalent texts have no need to obtain these particular books. For example, any good book on statistics or engineering economics would suffice.

Reference List - Updated for the 2010 and subsequent exams

* Core references

	Title, Edition	Author(s) Publisher	Date	ISBN
*Engineering Principles and Professional Practices*
	Mechanical Measurements, 6/e	Beckwith, Marangoni, and Lienhard Prentice Hall	2007	9780201847659
	Sensors and Actuators: Control System Instrumentation	De Silva CRC Press	2007	9781420044836
	Civil Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam, 11/e	Lindeburg Professional Publications, Inc.	2008	9781591261292
	Statistics
	Engineering Economic Analysis, 10/e	Newnan and Eschenbach Oxford University Press	2009	0195394631
*Facility Engineering: Plant, Animal, and Commodity Environments and Structures*
*	Environment Control for Plants and Animals	Albright ASAE	1991	0929355083
	Structures & Environment Handbook MWPS-1, 11/e (For ventilation. Out of date on structures.)	Midwest Plan Service	1983, rev. 1987	0893730572
	NDS for Wood Construction & Supplement (Design Values for Wood Construction)	American Forest & Paper Assoc.	2005
*	Design of Wood Structures-ASD/LRFD	Breyer et al. McGraw-Hill	2006	0071455396
	Minimum Design Loads for Buildings And Other Structures: SEI/ASCE 7-05 (ASCE Standard No. 7-05)	ASCE	2005	078440809
*Machine Systems: Power, Electrical/Electronic, Machines, Controls, and Sensors*
*	Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design, 8/e	Budynas and Nisbett McGraw-Hill	2007	0073312606
*	Engine and Tractor Power, 4/e	Goering and Hansen ASAE	2004	1892769425
*	Fundamentals of Electricity for Agriculture, 3/e	Gustafson and Morgan ASAE	2004	1892769395
*Natural Resource Engineering: Soil, Water, and Plant Systems*
*	Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, 6/e	Huffman et al. ASABE	2011	1892769794
*	Introduction to Environmental Engineering, 4/e	Davis and Cornwell McGraw-Hill	2006	0072424117
	Engineering Field Handbook, Ch 3 & 4	USDA NRCS	Various	NA
	National Engineering Handbook Part 651 Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook	NRCS	Various	NA
	Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse, 4/e	Tchobanoglous et al. McGraw-Hill	2002	0070418780
	Handbook of Hydraulics, 7/e	Brater et al. McGraw-Hill	1996	0070072477
*Process Engineering: Food, Feed, Fiber, and Fuel Products*
*	Principles of Process Engineering, 4/e	Henderson, Perry, and Young ASAE	1997	0929355857
	Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles (Includes Unit Operations), 4/e	Geankoplis Prentice-Hall	2003	8120326148
*All Areas*
*	ASABE Standards	ASABE	Most recent

Additional references that may be useful:

Pocket Ref, 3/e, Thomas J. Glover, Sequoia Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1885071337. (DeskRef is a larger format version of the same content.)

The following online texts are available to ASABE members free of charge.

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