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College Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CONST 270 - Understanding Structural Design


Credits 2
Learn how to recognize, interpret and understand the structural concerns of a building project. This includes review of structural design criteria for simple concrete, steel and wood construction. Engineering concepts are reviewed including dead and live loads, trusses; and learning about forces, stress, shear and moments in simple systems. Students learn to trace loads through a simple structure.
Prerequisite(s): COMPASS Pre- Algebra score of 60 or completion of MATH 075  or AMATH 175  with a 2.0 or higher.