The Structural Engineer's Professional Training Manual offers a solid foundation in the real-world business and problem-solving skills needed in the engineering workplace.
Filled with illustrations and practical “punch-list” summaries, this career-building guide provides an introduction to the practice and business of structural and civil engineering, including lots of detailed advice on developing competence and communicating ideas. Comprehensive and easy-to-understand, The Structural Engineer's Professional Training Manual features:
- Recommendations for successfully training engineers who are new to the field
- Methods for bringing together ideas from a variety of sources to find workable solutions to difficult problems
- Information on the real-world behaviors of building materials
- Guidance on licensing, liability, regulations, and employment
- Techniques for responsibly estimating design time and cost
- Tips on communicating design ideas effectively
- Strategies for working successfully as part of a team
The design of steel structures has developed over the past hundred years from a simple approach involving a few basic parameters of raw steel and elementary calculations to a more sophisticated treatment demanding a deep know-how of structural behaviour and physical metallurgy. The 
strives to present in a logical manner the theoretical background needed for developing and explaining design requirements. Beginning with the description of a solid background on steel including many references to ongoing research, the development of specific formulas used in the AISC specific is followed by a enormous number of design examples explaining in detail the procedure of selecting minimum weight members to satisfy given requirements for designing a structure. 