Stunning Early Ingenuity – Chand Baori
Chand Baori is a stunning example of a stepwell in Rajasthan, India containing 3,500 steps in its 13 stories. It’s one of the oldest stepwells in Rajasthan and was built during the 8th-9th century AD. Stepwells have largely been replaced by wells and pumps today, but they served both practical and societal needs. The stepwell […]
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 […]
NASA’s Need to Stay Cool May Help you Drive to the Grocery Store
NASA has been busy the last several years with designing spacecraft and systems to go to and live on the Moon and Mars. Part of that means keeping the astronauts and equipment cool in an environment with little to no gravity or atmosphere. That makes thermally driven convective heat transfer impossible. Researchers at Purdue have […]
How To Take the PE Exam and Pass – Dr. Tom’s Strategy
Passing the PE Exam requires more than just knowing how to solve problems. You need a solid plan for organizing your review from day one and for solving problems on exam day. In his How to Prepare For & Pass the Mechanical PE Exam (Dr. Tom’s Exam Strategy – Part 2) video, Dr. Tom goes […]
Engineer to the Moon – Artemis II Astronaut Christina Hammock Koch
NASA has announced the astronaut crew for the Artemis II manned mission to the moon, and this flight will have an engineer on board! Christina Hammock Koch was named to the four-person crew as a mission specialist, along with commander Reis Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen. I have a special interest […]
Achieve Your Extraordinary. Become a PE.
You have achieved a lot in your career as an engineer, but you know that you are capable of more. Getting your P.E. license will open up a world of possibilities for you to achieve the extraordinary. And we can help you make those possibilities a reality with our 20-Week Reviews for the Mechanical PE […]
Beer from Thin Air?
OK, I know that’s every beer lover’s dream, but the folks at the San Diego International Airport and East Village Brewing Company have made it happen – sort of. The airport has lots of air conditioning units that cool the air in the buildings and jet bridges. Rather than letting it simply drip on the […]
FEATURED TESTIMONIAL – “I Passed, All Thanks to Your Course”
“I took the Mechanical TFS exam and found out I passed! This was all thanks to your course and following the Dr. Tom method. I did not graduate with a Mechanical Engineering degree so some of the topics (especially heat transfer and HVAC) were new to me, but your lessons were a great way to […]
Five Ways to Communicate Successfully
Being a successful engineer certainly involves knowing how to apply the subject matter of their discipline, along with incorporating various materials and components available into value added commercial products. However, successful engineers also need to be great communicators. A recent ASME article outlines five key elements of good communication, especially in meetings.1) Prepare in Advance […]
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 […]
