Structural Analysis

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About our author

For over 20 years, Dr. James Hanson has blended his two greatest passions: engineering and teaching. His undergraduate and graduate degrees come from Cornell University where his engineering and teaching skills started developing. He further developed those skills as a structural engineer for a large chemical company and as an engineer officer in the US Army. As a result, he is a licensed professional engineer in New York and Indiana.

Now he is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology which means he gets to focus on developing pedagogies and testing their effectiveness. His specialty is speeding up the novice-to-expert transition in the area of evaluating the reasonableness of analysis and design results.

Jim’s passion for blending engineering and teaching have led to awards from the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Concrete Institute. Perhaps the most telling awards, however, are the ones he received based on nominations from his current and former students: the Rose-Hulman Honorary Alumni Award and the Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award.

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For courses in structural analysis

Teach students to develop their intuition and the habit of evaluating their results

Structural Analysis: Skills for Practice encourages engineering students to develop their intuition and the habit of evaluating the reasonableness of structural analysis results. The author presents examples and homework problems that incorporate a consistent thought process structure—guess, calculate, and evaluate their results—helping students develop the metacognitive skill of thinking about their own thought process. The text presents content not seen in other structural analysis books that students need to know to pass their licensure exam and frames ideas in the context of how they will apply it on the job. Drawing upon the evaluation skills gathered from a six year project with experienced structural engineers, Hanson’s Structural Analysis helps students learn skills to transition from novice to expert faster and become more competent in their careers.

Also available with Mastering Engineering

Mastering™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and often improves results for each student.  Tutorial exercises and author-created tutorial videos walk students through how to solve a problem, consistent with the author’s voice and approach from the book.

If you would like to purchase both the Student Value Edition (Loose-Leaf version) of the text and Mastering Engineering, search for:

013487823X / 9780134878232 Structural Analysis: Skills for Practice, Student Value Edition (Loose-Leaf Version) Plus Mastering Engineering with Pearson eText — Access Card Package, 1/e

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• 0134878124 / 9780134878126 Mastering Engineering with Pearson eText — Access Card — for Structural Analysis: Skills for Practice
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Additional features of this title

• Homework problems for nearly half the chapters require students to calculate results using structural analysis software and to verify their results from solving problems by hand.
• Unique chapters cover structural analysis skills and content used by practicing engineers that don’t appear in other structural analysis textbooks:
  • Chapter 2: Predicting Results, Chapter 7: Introduction to Computer Aided Analysis, Chapter 10: Approximate Lateral Displacements, Chapter 11: Diaphragms
• Motivation or the why of the concept being presented opens each chapter. Most of the chapter sections are organized with the following format: Brief introduction, How-To, Section Highlights and Example Problems.
• Real photos and highly detailed realistic illustrations help students visualize the fundamental concepts presented in the text and apply them in interesting and realistic ways.

Hallmark features of this title

• Homework problems are structured to achieve three goals: 1) develop intuition, 2) practice the concept, and 3) accurately evaluate results.
• Evaluation of Results encourages students to develop the habit of seeing if their results are reasonable and being able to explain their results.
• Example problems include the following checkpoint questions that remind students to stop and reflect on their thought process: Observed Expected Features, Satisfied Fundamental Principles and Approximations, Predicted Outcomes.
• Every example and homework problem is built around real-world scenarios with most keyed to a real photo to promote visualization and connect with practical applications.

For courses in structural analysis

Teach students to develop their intuition and the habit of evaluating their results

Structural Analysis: Skills for Practice encourages engineering students to develop their intuition and the habit of evaluating the reasonableness of structural analysis results. The author presents examples and homework problems that incorporate a consistent thought process structure–guess, calculate, and evaluate their results–helping students develop the metacognitive skill of thinking about their own thought process. The text presents content not seen in other structural analysis books that students need to know to pass their licensure exam, and frames ideas in the context of how they will apply it on the job. Drawing upon the evaluation skills gathered from a six year project with experienced structural engineers, Hanson’s Structural Analysis helps students learn skills to transition from novice to expert faster and become more competent in their careers.

Also available with Mastering Engineering

Mastering™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and often improves results for each student.  Tutorial exercises and author-created tutorial videos walk students through how to solve a problem, consistent with the author’s voice and approach from the book. Learn more about Mastering Engineering.