Prestressed Concrete Design is an advanced course offered as the elective in the civil engineering program for junior and senior. Several students are interested in taking this class because prestressed concrete is widely used in construction nowadays. Prestressed concrete design is quite complicated and difficult for students to understand. Only lecture cannot facilitate their learning. Learning by seeing and solving the real world problems is a way to stimulate their learning. Students work in groups to perform a real-world design using Excel spreadsheet just like professional engineers do their jobs. Impacts Students are interested to further study in advanced prestressed concrete course (They ask me to offer an advanced course). Seeing and learning from real-world scenarios make them more curios.
Effective Teaching, Learning Real-World, Concrete
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