Studying

Today I worked on understanding shear force, shear stress, and bending moment. My professor mentioned that these would be essentials to structural engineering and I did my best to teach myself the basics. This was helpful since at the very least I was able to understand the terminology used in class. It would have been nice to have had some experience with structural analysis before this REU but I have yet to be seriously handicapped by it. Most of what we do still just concerns interpreting charts correctly.