Provides students with an opportunity to learn how engineers use math, science, and technology to design real structures. Composed of five separate but closely integrated learning activities. Includes many of the mathematical and scientific concepts that engineers use to analyze and design real structures.
Table of Contents
Preface: For the Teacher v
Learning Activity #1: Build a Model of a Truss Bridge 1-1
Learning Activity #2: Test the Strength of Structural members 2-1
Learning Activity #3: Analyze and Evaluate a Truss 3-1
Learning Activity #4: Design a Truss Bridge with a Computer 4-1
Learning Activity #5: Design and build a Model Truss Bridge 5-1
Appendix A: A Gallery of Truss Bridges A-1
Appendix B: A Gallery of Structural Analysis Results B-1
Appendix C: building the Testing Machine C-1
Appendix D: Glossary D-1
Engineering students, teachers and professors with an interest in problem-based engineering and how to design and build bridges, as well as anyone in the general public with an interest in bridge construction and engineering math and science will enjoy this book.
Product Details
- Ressler, Stephen J.
- File Folder Bridges
- Bridges
- Problem Based Introduction to Engineering
- Engineering
