DTC Has the Best Prices AND the Best Courses

Buying a PE Exam Review is a major purchase, and that’s why we always keep our prices as low as possible and why we introduced our Pay Up Front, Test Drive and Pay-As-You-Go payment options. But don’t let our lower prices fool you. DTC has the best PE Exam review courses out there. And with […]

Can Bricks without Clay Save the Day?

A group of scientists in Australia, who by the way don’t mind being called brickheads, have developed a brick that replaces the clay with ash from trash incinerators and waste glass that cannot be recycled. Of course, this allows for the efficient disposal of ash and glass waste products without using landfills, but there are […]

FEATURED TESTIMONIAL – “Absolutely what I needed to keep me on track.”

“I live a very busy life with my wife, five children, and a full-time plus part-time job. Two years ago I started trying to prepare for the PE and was overwhelmed after reviewing the MERM. Then I bought your course, and your “Let’s get started…” voice became part of my early morning routine. Your course […]

Tiny Minions Can Make Air into Stone

When you think of tiny minions, you probably think about movies or ants, but how about bacteria? Carbon dioxide (CO2) is of course one of biggest challenges to the climate today. Humans create millions of tons per year and natural processes far more. Plants and natural processes sequester almost all of it into more plants […]

Will Coffee Someday Power Your Car?

Hydrogen is probably the gold standard in “green” fuels, however producing it and storing it safely is a major challenge. Researchers at MIT came up with an interesting process that at least does not require storing the hydrogen. First, they realized that hydrogen could be produced by adding aluminum pellets to seawater. However, the pellets, […]

PE EXAM TIP – Have Only One Way to Work a Problem

There is a wealth of information out there on how to solve PE Exam problems. For any given class of problems, you can find many solution approaches. You may have even thought of additional, and quite valid, approaches on your own. However, seeking out a number of approaches has a troublesome downside. All you need […]

With DTC, Practice Makes Perfect

Poor time management during the exam. That is the most common reason our participants say kept them from passing the exam. With the clock ticking, especially on the CBT format exam, it’s easy to get thrown off your exam-day plan, waste time on difficult problems, realize the clock is running out, and panic. But it […]

A Concrete Foundation to Store Electricity

One of the biggest challenges with solar and wind is that they are intermittent sources of energy, requiring storage to make viable for a grid. Likewise, nuclear has trouble cycling down at night and responding to varying loads during the day. Imagine a building being able to store energy for use later. Franz-Josef Ulm at […]

The Race Is On

The title of a recent ASME SmartBrief article “Why the hare (rabbit) always beats the robot” really caught my attention. We normally think of robots as being much faster at doing things than living creatures, but it turns out this is not the case. Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at the […]