First Class License:

A First-Class Engineer is intended for a supervisory role as a individual shift supervisor in the power plant or generating facility. Having overall responsibility as a supervisor for the entire plant including employees and equipment.

The fees for the First-Class Engineer application is $25.00 with an annual renewal fee of $25.00.  For those engineers that wish to apply for a reciprocal license the fee is $25.00, which is based on holding a license from recognized State, Municipal, Federal and Third-Party licensing entities.

The qualification to sit for examination are the individual must have 18-months in a High pressure plant having steam turbines or 1-year in a High pressure plant having steam turbines and 6 months holding a 2nd Class Stationary Steam Engineer certificate.

Here is an outline of the breadth and depth of the topics, which can be downloaded in detail at First-Class Engineer, and will be covered on the examination.  Below is the a general outline of covered topics on the examination:

Questions with a very-high degree of difficulty related to:

• Boilers: Types, applications, design, operation, combustion systems, controls, safety devices.
• Boiler Auxiliaries: Pumps, feedwater heating equipment, water treatment.
• Steam Turbines: Design, applications, controls, operation, safety devices.
• Steam Turbine Auxiliaries: Condensers, cooling towers and cooling systems.
• Environmental Control: Emissions, pollution controls, pollution control devices and systems.
• Boiler Mathematics: MAWP, heating surface, horsepower, safety valve calculations, fuel calculations.
• Pump Mathematics: Horsepower, head, displacement.
• Steam Turbine Mathematics: Horsepower, overspeed trip calculations, condenser calculations.
• Federal Regulations: EPA, OSHA, NLRB.
• Code Requirements and application: ASME, NBIC, NFPA.

Reference material materials to study from, for the examination, are:

• Stationary Engineering, Fourth Edition, by Steingress, Frost and Walker.
• High Pressure Boilers, 4th Edition, by Steingress, Frost and Walker.
• Low Pressure Boilers, 3rd Edition, by Steingress and Walker.
• EPA, OSHA, NLRB, ASME, NBIC and NFPA Codes

Application form download (PDF) NASOE Application