Recommendation for youtube lectures and classes 3

[HanStrulo]

HI Everyone.

This is a general question about structural/civil engineering.

I noticed that whenever i google a problem i have in design, i come across alot of sites that don't help in anyway. But somewhere, i find a great video series on youtube or a great pdf in the pile of pdfs in google. i get really excited when i find these hidden gems.

Could you share your experience and recommendation of great youtube channels with lecture style playlists that are available for free but might not be widely konwn?

Thank you

 

[kipfoot]

I think the best source of videos would be educational webinars put out by professional organizations. They're generally free to watch; you only pay if you want a quiz and certificate. AISC, ACI, American wood council.

 

[milkshakelake]

I generally found Youtube to be useful in learning software tricks or showing construction. They usually don't get into code. If you want to learn from Youtube, the best way is to search for a specific problem you'd like to solve or learn about. Even then, you probably won't get the answer, but it's helpful to see workers or contractors posting videos of specific construction techniques.

I can't recommend a specific channel because I've watched one video at most from any Youtube engineering channel. If you want general engineering theory, I don't think Youtube can help because structural engineering is so broad that nobody can cover all of it. And videos about things like buildings or bridges are so general that I can't get knowledge out of a video in a professional practice sense. If you want to get deep into a specific subject, Youtube won't help much either. You have to search for these hidden gems based on specific problems.

 

[skeletron]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrvfiHNDS_QI-FgKQSmTITQ

Tyler Ley has a pretty good channel. Professor at Univ. of Oklahoma, good lively presentations, enthusiastic, succinct, and well put together videos. They are more geered toward recent graduates or students, but the concrete concepts are good to know.

 

[HTURKAK]

I have seen some tutorials of the softwares and lectures at youtube.. and agree with saying ,( if you are not the customer, you are the product) ..

IMO, no way these type of services is free and they have to make money..Could be only with commercial advertisement incomes ?

I remember a RUSSIAN PROVERB : The only free cheese is in the mousetrap.

 

[structuralCADspecialist]

MIT has lectures and 'open learning'... I (think) you can essential take the courses and just not get any credit for them. And these might also only be undergraduate level courses and probably doesn't meet your "not widely known" criteria. Not that a statics/strength of materials review isn't the worst thing on earth...

I've been looking at Coursera recently as well. I did a trial with one course (not engineering related) and it was TOTAL garbage so cancelled that pretty quickly. Some of the course descriptions look pretty good and priced quite reasonably.

The reason why there is such a lack of quality, practical building (or engineering) design courses is because many firms see that as being their intellectual property and really don't want to share their secrets. Not to mention that finding the free time in such a demanding profession... I'm seeing more and more creators on YouTube every time I look however.

 

[Celt83]

Here is Dirk Bondy's entire lecture series on Post-Tensioned Concrete: Link

My Personal Open Source Structural Applications:

https://github.com/buddyd16/Structural-Engineering

Open Source Structural GitHub Group:

https://github.com/open-struct-engineer

 

[GC_Hopi]

AISC has a great playlist on youtub Link

 

[CaliEng]

The Efficient Engineer has some great content on general principles with clear and concise videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXAS_Ekkq0iFJ9dSUIkcAkw

 

[HanStrulo]

Hi Everyone. just to compile what i learnt and share some few extra that i found elsewhere.

Pre-stressed concrete lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_SVVbhKY9I&list=PLXpvR5DF4MWaUYr0jYLs6XM5QcQRjVl3C.

Reinforced concrete design (Basics):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJQVSTLX0rA&list=PL_ZYN7hwTiZJKHOSC3xiXrSnv4skQk7tp

Reinforced concrete design (Basics):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCIPFYg7-lU&list=PLRq6Z9d0kCT8PCLAQiRXIoXJ14b3RcgUc

AISC continuing education:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7yJwh70xVnW-hGIUTVA2IQ/videos

Design of earth retaining structures (graduate level):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJQVSTLX0rA&list=PL_ZYN7hwTiZJKHOSC3xiXrSnv4skQk7tp

Elementary soil mechanics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_arD9SDTK74&list=PLzBZ3hmMnx1KUOu8ZQItF7J2Stdo0tjhG

Structural steel design (Basics):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXuF_3n_e0&list=PLCV9OyAY5K-VvmJjj0kB3ZY8ycAynOoP2

Mechanics of material (Basics):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovSCRKXCE9M&list=PLCBF826FE563C57B0

That is all I could find so far. anymore of these awesome playlists is appreciated. and thank you all for the awesome input. Believe it or not, the introductory courses in steel and earth retaining structures are a big help for me because i just switched industries and those playlists made learning a lot easier (combined with some textbooks from my boss of course).