Enough Review of Starting work in practice as junior

1. Approaching the Structural
Engineering Profession

2. • PROBLEMS TO ENCOUNTER IN STRUCTURAL
ENGINEERING
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• As a novice engineer, it is important to establish a
foundation for oneself. While it is important to listen to a
supervisor’s advice, it is best to set a pace that can be
easily administered. Adhering to one’s own pace is
important.
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• In the same event, a supervising engineer ought to
acknowledge for the novice engineer, a guideline for
developing, and certain steps that are performed to
advance quickly. As a manager, it is valuable to set up
preliminary meetings to get to know each other, and
establish a basis for learning, disseminating any barriers
that may have been created through the negotiation
process. Furthermore, accounting for a person’s
knowledge base allows maximum work progression.
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• On the same note, it is valuable to review a list of a
principal engineer’s accomplishments, programs created,
tools used, work effort input. With a general knowledge
of the principal’s achievements, it becomes easier to
know where the answers lie.
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• Honesty, here, becomes the most vital instrument.

3. • Foundation Information Enters
• How does the geotechnical engineer supply the
information?
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• Information supply is one of the major problems I found
varying between geotechnical engineers. Often, we
would get to a point where we required the geotechnical
information, and the information would not be as we
expected, and a whole slew of problems would develop.
It is truly important to first evaluate how the geotechnical
information is given, and then proceed from there.
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• Codes to Apply
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• With codes ever changing, it is important to detail the
new information entering through the Code work. Often
times, a new code has been established, but its use has
not been authorized by all involved, and other times, a
review of old codes, may establish the development of a
structure to be rehabilitated. Therefore it is important to
be able to apply codes at different levels within a
program.

4. • Bridges
• Pre-Stressed Concrete
• BDS
• For a given strand arrangement, determines loads in
beams, required steel, required jacking force
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• X-Section
• Determines plastic section
properties of a reinforced section
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• W-Frame
• Push-Over Analyses with
soil springs
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• Buildings
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• Structural Design starts from an overall account of
the building, and then
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• Structures in General
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• Cost Analysis