Wood and masonry on the Web: a civil engineering design course goes virtual

Abstract

Summary form only given. This presentation documents the on-going effort to develop and deliver a Web-based, practiced-orientated, civil engineering design course. The course, titled 437-Wood and Masonry Design, focuses on the structural design and construction of low-rise buildings and uses a system-based approach to motivate learning and to emphasize component integration. This course is being offered for the first time, (Fall, 1998), via the Web to residential Northern Aizona University (NAU) students. These students use the deep Web site as a course center that includes directions (e.g., homework, project, and reading assignments), daily lecture notes, pictures, links to on-line reference materials, and communications. In addition, the residential students physically attend class-a highly interactive recitation-type session-with the resulting activities posted to the Web. Future offerings of EGR 437 will include distance students taking the class, more or less, on the same schedule as the residential students.