Simplified Analysis

Today was our second lecture by Md Istiaque Hasan. He began with a short lecture on civil engineering as a whole and the different careers that this broad field can contain. He then described the academic path of becoming a structural engineer which was extremely useful to hear his description since he had been through it personally. Then began the real part of the lecture where we learned about simplified analysis. The concepts where interesting because it put such a huge array of variable into readily available charts. The ideas where simple enough and I didn't find the process difficult to follow. Also Istiaque was exceptionally clear at explaining, often reiterating ideas so we could follow with ease. It also helped that the subject he was cover in particular was Loads, in particular Wind Loads, which I had familiarized myself with earlier that morning. On the whole I thought the topics covered far more interesting than the previous lecture and thoroughly enjoyed learning the new material.