FE discipline
FE Electrical and Computer
Almost everything an electrical or computer candidate needs sits in one sixty-page section, which is both convenient and a trap: the distance between a circuits question and a networking question inside that section is enormous.
The trap
Control systems are not in the electrical section. They are in instrumentation, measurement and control, forty pages earlier. This catches people every year.
Sections you will be working in
Ordered by how central they are to this exam. Page ranges come from the handbook version this build is calibrated to.
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
Circuits, machines, signals, electronics, digital logic, and networking
- Mathematics
Algebra through differential equations and numerical methods
- Instrumentation, Measurement, and Control
Sensors, sampling, uncertainty, and control systems
- Engineering Probability and Statistics
Distributions, hypothesis testing, and statistical quality control
- Engineering Economics
Time value of money, depreciation, and benefit-cost analysis
Knowledge areas on this exam
The knowledge-area names and question counts published by NCEES in the FE exam specifications for this discipline. 17 areas in total.
| # | Knowledge area | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mathematics | 11-17 |
| 2 | Probability and Statistics | 4-6 |
| 3 | Ethics and Professional Practice | 4-6 |
| 4 | Engineering Economics | 5-8 |
| 5 | Properties of Electrical Materials | 4-6 |
| 6 | Circuit Analysis (DC and AC Steady State) | 11-17 |
| 7 | Linear Systems | 5-8 |
| 8 | Signal Processing | 5-8 |
| 9 | Electronics | 7-11 |
| 10 | Power Systems | 8-12 |
| 11 | Electromagnetics | 4-6 |
| 12 | Control Systems | 6-9 |
| 13 | Communications | 5-8 |
| 14 | Computer Networks | 4-6 |
| 15 | Digital Systems | 8-12 |
| 16 | Computer Systems | 5-8 |
| 17 | Software Engineering | 4-6 |
Drill this discipline
331 of the drill items are tagged for FE Electrical and Computer.
Open the drillPage numbers here are read from handbook version 10.5 (seventh printing, April 2025), which runs to 502 pages. NCEES revises the handbook and page numbers move with it, which is why the drill asks which section a topic lives in rather than which page. Check the version of your own copy, downloaded free from NCEES.