Conference Session

Structural Education Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith E. Hedges, Drury University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

places an emphasis on the schemata of the learners. The mental framework of thearchitectural education experience supersedes the prerequisite knowledge. The architecturestudents learn and retrieve information differently while possessing the same prerequisiteknowledge as the engineering students because of the disparities in their mental frameworks.Structures education is commonly a linear progression from mathematics, physics, rigid bodystatics, mechanics of deformable bodies, structural materials design and analysis, to lateral forcesand overall building behavior.[7] The gradual accrual of prerequisite knowledge is suited for theengineering schemata rather than the architecture schemata. A need exists to develop new way ofthinking about this