As such, they have email accounts, computing lab access, library privileges, low-cost access to campus athletic facilities, and student pricing on any software they wish to purchase. Since most universities accept up to 6 transfer credits from other universities, the credits can also usually be transferred to programs in which participants may be enrolled at those other universities. Each morning corresponds to one full week of topic coverage if it were offered in a semester-long course setting. Morning sessions are accompanied by concise 3-page practical synopses of the main topics covered along with pointers to relevant supplementary references. These sessions involve hand-calculations, spreadsheet use and other software use in doing the project work.
All software is available on the department's computing lab at all hours to the course students.
Project work in many cases continues into the evenings. The experienced bridge engineers taking the course have often served as design team leaders for the design projects. Occasional field trips are explicitly designed and timed to fit into the development of the design projects.