Bridging to the Bicentenary: Collaboratively Educating Engineers and Architects
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Mark Mistur
(Associate Dean, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA)
Chris Letchford (Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA) Michael Stein (Schlaich Bergermann and Partner, PE, Managing Director, New York, NY, USA) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2015 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference Geneva 2015 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 317-324 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2015 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137815818357250 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has been educating civil engineers for almost 200 years and over the last fifteen a unique collaborative program has developed between the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, the School of Architecture and prominent structural engineers. Funded by the Bedford Endowment, the program pairs architecture and structural engineering students over their senior semesters in a range of courses designed to improve mutual understanding, develop awareness of design motivations and aesthetics in the engineers and structural forces and forms in the architects. Led by a leading structural engineer from practice on a three year appointment, the Bedford Professor teaches both a seminar and a studio class and leads a ten day travelling workshop at the end of each academic year that exposes engineering and architecture students to best practice examples of collaboration in the design of the built environment. |
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| Keywords: |
Structural Engineering Education Interdisciplinary Studio Collaboration
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