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	Discover and learn more about steel through education: The mission of the Steel Structures Education Foundation (SSEF) is to provide support and incentive to further the inclusion of steel teaching and research in Architectural and Engineering Schools in Canada.
	Information Technology in the Modern Design Office - an article by Y. Zhou and S.F. Stiemer for AECEF, The Association of European Civil Engineering Faculties
	Multimedia in Engineering and Engineering Education - an article with some thoughts on the design environment for AECEF, The Association of European Civil Engineering Faculties
	Virtual Education: Better or Worse? - an article by M. Chow and S.F. Stiemer for AECEF, The Association of European Civil Engineering Faculties
	No-Nonsense Approach to Teaching in the IT Age - a brief presentation of the current way of teaching steel structures design in the undergraduate environment - as presented at the SSEF Educators Meeting 2004
	The story starts where the textbooks end - observations of a COOP student on a bridge construction site

listing of courses

CIVL 231 Solid Mechanics II
Deflection of beams, combined axial load and bending moment, inelastic bending, plastic analysis of structures, beam-columns, buckling (stability), principal axes and principal moments of inertia, biaxial stress and strain, Mohr's circle.
Credits: 3 ; Pre-reqs: CIVL 230

Text: Mechanics of Materials, 6th edition, by Riley, Sturges, Morris; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-471-70511-X

CIVL 331 Steel and Timber Design
Introduction to limit states design of steel and timber structures: material properties, design of tension and compression members, beams, columns, and connections.
Credits: 4; Prerequisite:All of CIVL 228, CIVL 231.

Text: Handbook of Steel Construction, 9th edition, by CISC, online from www.cisc-icca.ca

Codes used:
CSA/CAN3-S16 (Handbook of Steel Construction, 9th edition, by CISC, online from www.cisc-icca.ca)

Term	Day	Start Time	End Time	Building	Room
2	Mon Wed Fri	10:00	11:00	DMP	310

CIVL 432 Advanced Structural Steel Design
Frame connections with high-strength bolts and welds, highway bridge loadings, composite beams of steel and concrete, welded steel plate girders.
Credits: 3; Prerequisite: CIVL 331, CIVL 332

Text: Handbook of Steel Construction, 8th edition, by CISC, ISBN 1-55324-808-2, online from www.cisc-icca.ca

Codes used:
CSA/CAN3-S16 (Handbook of Steel Construction, 8th edition, by CISC, ISBN 1-55324-808-2, from www.cisc-icca.ca)

CIVL 510 Behaviour of Steel Structures
Elastic response; elastic limit; capacity design; non-elastic stability problems of members and frames; plastic design and analysis; connection design for ultimate loads.
Credits: 3

Text: Handbook of Steel Construction, 8th edition, by CISC, ISBN 1-55324-808-2, from www.cisc-icca.ca

Codes used:
CSA/CAN3-S16 (Handbook of Steel Construction, 8th edition, by CISC, ISBN 1-55324-808-2, from www.cisc-icca.ca)
AISC LRFD (free download of specifications)

CIVL 511 Advanced Topics in Steel Structures
Seismic design of steel buildings; composite design; welding of steel; corrosion protection; application of CAD in steel design.

Codes used:
CSA/CAN3-S16 (Handbook of Steel Construction, 8th edition, by CISC, ISBN 1-55324-808-2, from www.cisc-icca.ca)
AISC LRFD (free download of specifications)

Code no longer used:

Code of Hammurabi ( 1795-1750 B.C.), King of Babylonia, Mesopotamia (Irak)

228: If a builder build a house for some one and complete it, he shall give him a fee of two shekels in money for each sar of surface.

229: If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

230: If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death.

231: If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house.

232: If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect the house from his own means.

233: If a builder build a house for some one, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.

and here the full original:

memorizing facts
understanding principles

how engineering life develops:

source: Eastern Filosofer

You do not really understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother.
by Bert Onestone

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The (engineering) design process is one of working with others to solve complex open-ended and often ill-structured problems and synthesize a specification of the function, form, behavior, performance, manufacture, operation, maintenance, and disposal of a technological artifact (an element, system, or process), such that the artifact's use promotes a preferred situation addressing identifiable objectives and constraints in a given technological, environmental, health and safety, economic, corporate, societal, political, and cultural context.