Engineering Fundamentals - Loads, Forces & Materials - STEM at Work
Class experience
US Grade 8 - 11
This class will introduce engineering core principals and vocabulary that every engineer must understand in the development of skills for the built environment (bridges, buildings, roads, etc.). Forces and loadings will be applied to simple beams as typically prepared by engineers and architects. Students will see how these diagrams are developed using typical loads and forces that describe how most of the built environment is put together. Load types will also be discussed. How they are...
This class is taught in English.
Students will be introduced to the main forces of compression, tension, shear and torsion. Also, how loads are applied to common situations and how these are all transposed to common engineering diagrams. Weights and testing of materials will be discussed along with brief demonstrations of how some materials are tested in labs. Engineering the built environment may seem a highly technical subject. However, this introduction will demonstrate the simple tools engineers use everyday throughout the course of their profession.
As an architect with a degree in structural engineering, my primary college curriculum included years of courses in engineering as well as material sciences and individual courses in structural concrete, structural steel, structural wood and timber construction, statics and dynamics in addition to physics. I incorporate structural engineering practices regularly in my work as a multi-licensed architect.
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1 file available upon enrollmentA one-page pdf file will be provided for download or print-out. It is a useful tool to follow the class and take notes.
Please download or print out a copy of the single-page handout. It will help students keep track and provide a place for additional notes. Pen, pencil and paper are recommended to have available.
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Group Class
$20
per classMeets once
90 min
Completed by 78 learners
Live video meetings
Ages 13-18
1-6 learners per class
Financial Assistance
Outschool International
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