ENCE455

Design of Steel Structures

Prerequisite: ENCE353; and permission of ENGR-Civil & Environmental Engineering department. Behavior and design of members subjected to fatigue, and combined bending and compression; plate girders, composite beams, open-web joists and connections. Methods of allowable stress design, and load and resistance factor design. Elements of plastic analysis and design. Framing systems and loads for industrial buildings and bridges.

Spring 2026

Peter Chang

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Spring 2025

Peter Chang

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Past Semesters

Peter Chang

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Peter Chang

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Peter Chang

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Abhilekh Prasai

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Brian Phillips

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 2.99 between 341 students*

A-: 7.04%

A: 17.89%

A+: 4.99%

B-: 10.26%

B: 26.39%

B+: 8.21%

C-: 3.52%

C: 12.9%

C+: 3.23%

D-: 0.88%

F: 0.88%

W: 1.17%

other: 2.64%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.