Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Ali Abolmaali

and, thus, each member will be able to enter their part of the VE relatedwork electronically, which will be available for other team members to view. Thus, it willfacilitate active and collaborative education/research interactions.The development of steel design codes and specifications, that are mostly used in teaching thesubject matter, have lead to a step-by-step procedures been presented in the classroom thatcultivates an attitude of “simply following the rules.” In many cases, students rarely get a chanceto see the bigger picture and see how the structural components fit together. In teachingundergraduate Steel Design course, parametric case studies can be presented addressing “whatif” types of questions. For example, what happens if the