This course introduces students to basic fundamentals of civil engineering, group dynamics, oral presentation skills, engineering report writing techniques, and uses of the computer. Basics of structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering, surveying, materials, and construction engineering and management are presented in this course through a collaborative group teaching approach.
Background is provided to gain competence in operating systems, editors, and spreadsheets.
Student groups complete weekly computer laboratory projects and develop oral presentations and written reports. No previous computer use skills are required or assumed. This course is recommended for freshman or sophomore students. This fundamental civil engineering course provides an introduction to the analysis of structures in static equilibrium. The focus of this course is a classical analysis of concurrent and non-concurrent equilibrium.