Cardelino, N., & Bowers, C. (2023, March), Existing physical structures help civil engineering students understand structural design  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45010

\bibitem{asee_peer_45010}
  Cardelino, N., \& Bowers, C. (2023, March), \emph{Existing physical structures help civil engineering students understand structural design}
  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia.
  10.18260/1-2--45010

Natalia Cardelino and Caroline Bowers.  "Existing physical structures help civil engineering students understand structural design".  ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://strategy.asee.org/45010 Internet.  14 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_45010}
  Natalia Cardelino and Caroline Bowers.
  "Existing physical structures help civil engineering students understand structural design".
  \emph{ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://strategy.asee.org/45010 Internet.  14 May, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Civil Engineering students in Structural Design often struggle making the connection between what they are learning in class and its application to the real world. They can have difficulty understanding design elements in structures as a whole. The majority of examples that students are exposed to in class are not representative of the real world by being limited to an isolated beam, column, frame, or truss. While these types of examples can be beneficial when introducing new concepts, students are lacking experience understanding, analyzing, and designing structures as a whole. To improve the understanding of design elements, a real structure was selected to be used to write steel design problems. A connector bridge between two engineering buildings on Mercer University’s campus was selected due to its familiarity and accessibility to students. The content of these problems included tension and compression design, flexure design, shear design, combined forces design, composite member design, and connection design. Students will be surveyed to determine the effectiveness of using existing structures to create example problems. 
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