Designing and Building File-Folder Bridges: A Problem-Based Introduction to Engineering

by Stephen Ressler

Provides students with an opportunity to learn how engineers use math, science, and technology to design real structures. Composed of five separate but closely integrated learning activities. Includes many of the mathematical and scientific concepts that engineers use to analyze and design real structures.

193 pages, Paperback

First published November 28, 2003

About the author

Stephen Ressler is a Professor Emeritus from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he taught for 21 years. He holds an MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University and is a registered professional engineer in Virginia. He served in a variety of military engineering assignments in the United States, Europe, and Central Asia. He has focused his scholarly and professional work on engineering education and has won numerous national awards for engineering education and service.