CIVE 413Structural Steel Design

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• Was forced to buy textbook and lecture notes, however, the resell value on these are quite high. Lei is a knowledge prof and he knows steel well. Although the course didn't give me a good first impression, the content learned is still valuable.

  Apr 2025 · didn’t like it · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

• Taking CIVE 413 with Andrea Atkins was an absolute nightmare(Death is preferable). She is easily the worst instructor I have ever encountered since middle school, and her teaching style is completely ineffective. She is overly dramatic,(i rather not say what i think on this). Her grading schme is completely unfair and brutally harsh like I stole her car, punishing students for no logical reason.It is incredibly frustrating that the Civil Engineering department lets such a terrible instructor from the architecture deparytment teach a civil engineering 4th-year course. This class was an exhausting, miserable experience from start to finish. Its so funny how from 1st year to 3rd year we get…

  Aug 2026 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

• Grade Received: 75%
  The class comprised of 6 assignments, 1 midterm, and 1 final. The professor gave us fill-in the blank course notes that we had to buy which was decent I think. However, the lectures weren't the most helpful in my opinion, but the tutorials were which they happened to post. You need to have the handbook of steel construction, which is a bit expensive, so if possible I would recommend trying to borrow it from somewhere (which I know is probably not possible for most people). I did pretty okay in this course, thankfully the assignments were based of the tutorials, like each assignment had its own tutorial (there were 6 tutorials). What was nice was the fact that it was…

  Aug 2024 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

• Not sure I really enjoyed the way this course was taught.. the notes were often confusing and lacked important information while focusing on derivations that weren't useful. Assignments were very long and tedious and the exams were okay, but good luck on the multiple choice or T/F. Still though, obviously very useful course if you want to pursue structural engineering. Lei Xu LOVES steel, but can't say I'd want him again.

  Nov 2023 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

• Idk why ppl hate on this course, at least when I took it with Lei Xu, it was excellent. Steel design has you get into all the good stuff from the S16 code regarding compression, shear and bending of beams. It also gets into tension of plates, bolt/weld design and a little composite design stuff. Overall this is a must-take course if you're interested in structural engineering. My only complaints are that sometimes the derivations of things take up way more time than need be, but with that said, you're never tested on it anyway so its more of supplemental details than anything else.

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