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(OP)
Can you provide me with a good structural engineering school?  I am a Mechanical by degree, but am looking to go and get a Structural degree also.  My primary background since graduation has been about 8 years in the tank and pressure vessel industry and I have designed alot of structural leg systems, platforms, and cat walks.  This is a field I am wanting to look into more and look at becoming a degreed S.E.

Thanks.

RE: Structural Engineering Colleges

Do you have a preference for a geographical area to study in,with concerns such as;  do you want to stay near where you live now, near a big city, work at the same time you go to school, etc?

RE: Structural Engineering Colleges

Yes we need to have more information including what type of structures are you looking to design? Bridges, buildings, marine structures etc.

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(OP)
I guess I knew that and must have fell asleep at the keyboard.

Optimally I would like to keep working and do as much as I can by distance.  I realize this may not be possible.  The wife and kids might go ballistic if I went back to school full time.  If not possible and a move is needed, then I would like to be able to work while I attend classes.

I am currently in northeast Kansas.  The local university here offers two classes for structural engineering and that is it.  Other areas are very strong, but structural is not.

I would like to get into bridges and structures.  Primarily with an emphasis on steel, then concrete.

Thanks for the quick reply.

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If your in NE Kansas, then it seems like Kansas State and Univ. of Kansas are strong possibilities.  One of those Universities has been promoting LRFD for quite sometime.  On the other side of the fence there is the Univ. of Nebraska at Lincoln.  UN is particularly strong in bridges right now with the advent of NaBRO, National Bridge Research Organization.

Iowa State in Ames is a good university for structural engineering, partucularly bridges.

A little farther in the Midwest there is University of Illinois at Champange.

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(OP)
Qshake:

Thanks for the colleges.  KSU doesn't have a structural program.  I went to the KU website and they do have a structural program.  Will have to swallow some pride to go there since I bleed purple (KSU).

Thanks again for the input.  I plan on looking at NU and ISU also.

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ksuengrng
KSU does have an "Architectural Engineering" program that teaches structural engineering...but this is entirely focused on structural for buildings and not bridges.

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