Fundamentals of Preparation Institute
Train on the exam
you'll actually sit.
Every exam hands you something on the day: an open handbook, an adaptive screen, a format that behaves in one specific way. Most preparation pretends it doesn't. Ours is built around it.
Which exam are you preparing for?
For future P.E.s
Engineering licensure
The exam gives you the NCEES® Reference Handbook. Every chapter opens with the pages you will need.
For students and parents
College admissions
The exam is adaptive and on screen. You practise module by module, timed and scored the same way.
Every book carries a name.
Not "endorsed by professionals". Endorsed by a specific person, who read it and signed it.
James M. Wright
P.E.
US · Texas License No. 87249
FE Mechanical
Mike A. Herzog
P.E.
US · Nebraska License No. E-13990
FE Electrical and Computer
Nelson F. Anderson
P.E.
FE Civil
Melissa Mirabello
M.A.
SAT
Two mechanisms, in every book we publish.
They are not claims about our books. They are how the pages are laid out, and you can check both by opening one.
The map precedes the journey
Every chapter opens with what the exam will hand you: the exact Handbook pages, or the exact screen you'll face. Worked examples pull from that same source, never from memory. By exam day the document isn't new — you've been navigating it for months.
Every wrong answer is named
Not just why the right one is right. Each wrong choice carries the specific mistake that makes it tempting, written out. Our books call them Trap Alerts, and there is an index of them in the back, so you can study your own errors by type.
And one thing we refuse to do
We publish the real number of questions. No padding, no duplicates dressed up as new material, no count that looks bigger on a cover than it is on the page.