classroom ("aula 8")

 

classroom 8

It was here that back in February 2003, I took my written examination in Structural Analysis and Design. At the end (just before the 5-hour deadline), a certain Franco Bontempi, Professor, teared all 22 pages of my hand-written calculations because I had undersized a column… I had to take the exam again three months later. Let’s say that nowadays, the ratio I tear pages he handles to me is ever increasing…
It was here that in the A.Y.'s 2005-2006 and 2006-2007, while I was a Teaching Assistant for two structural design courses, I gave lessons and overviewed projects once a week for four semesters...

Today I gave a lecture on structural robustness, focusing on steel structures (in particular, applications on the collapsed I35 Mississippi River Bridge) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge to students of Steel Structures, a course held by Franco Bontempi for students of the Master Degree in Structural Engineering.
http://www.slideshare.net/Kongkoumas/robustness-20-11-2014 

Collapse of the I35 Mississippi River Bridge (source: CNBC)

I hope I get the chance to give a couple more lectures for this and other courses until the end of the semester.