CIVE 414Structural Concrete Design

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• Ohh Maria Anna Polak just another mid 4a structural prof. Idk why the department decided to punish the civil students trying to get a structural speciliazation by giving us 2 mid profs for steel and concrete design lollll. Anyway the content is really time consuming and has more complex topics than steel design like rebar cutoff without ACI shortcut and 2 way slabs. But the assements are fair and her notes are really rreally good, although she cant teach. Dont waste time going to class, go through notes yourself and attend tuturorials and u will be blessed

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• Very standard structural course. Midterm and final were fair. Lab was interesting!

  Sep 2025 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

• Pretty easy course, and about 75% is review from Cive 310, not a big leap forward.

  Apr 2025 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

• Grade Received: 65%
  This course comprised of 3 assignments, a lab with a report, and a midterm and final. I only attended one lecture for this course. The professor, M. Pollack, was decent. From the lecture I attended she just went over the course notes she already posted. The course notes were pretty good, and they posted the tutorials which I think a lot of the assignments were based off of. The assignments were long sometimes, but not too difficult. I would suggest starting them as early as you can however, and good thing is that there are only 3 of them, The midterm was easy, the average was 84.2% from what I know. But the final was bad for me, but to be fair I think it was fair, I…

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• Concrete design is another must-take if you want to pursue structural engineering in the future. You cover all facets of beam design, slab design, and column design. In my opinion this is the most difficult of the 3 design courses cus there are an insane amount of checks that need to be made for everything. I took this online so it wasn't bad having everything open book, but if you want to do well I HIGHLY suggest marking up your concrete handbook or making cheat sheets that outline procedures and checks for each design case. Assignments and tests were not difficult and were marked pretty generously.

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