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Steel Reel: Interviews with Industry Professionals

These videos feature short interviews with professionals representing various aspects of the structural steel industry. They give insight to experiences, career paths, and interests pertaining to the design and construction of steel structures.  

Instructors may choose to use the videos within a lecture, as remote learning resources, or as part of an assignment. This document for instructors contains more information about the content of each interview and example follow-up questions.

The videos are loosely listed in order of complexity, from simplest to most complex in concepts.

  1. Collaboration, Sustainability, and Concept Design
    Jon Magnusson, SE, PE, NAE

  2. Rehabilitation & Renovation Engineering
    Andrea Shear, PE

  3. Steel Design Resources
    Christina Harber, SE, PE

  4. Connection Design
    Logan Bertling

  5. Column Base Plates
    Adam Friedman, SE, PE

  6. Framing Strategies
    Larry McDowell, SE, PE

  7. Lateral Torsional Buckling
    Craig Quadrato, PE, PhD

  8. Construction Engineering
    Adam Friedman, SE, PE

  9. Load Paths During Construction
    Adam Friedman, SE, PE

  10. Learning from the Field
    Adam Friedman, SE, PE

  11. Optimization at All Scales
    Steve Hofmeister, SE, PE

  12. Connection Design Pass-Through Forces
    Christina McCoy, SE, RA