Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2024-25

"Steel Structures" is a compulsory subject from the fifth semester of the Undergraduate Program in Civil Engineering. In order to reach a satisfactory level of achievement it is recommended that the students are already proficient with the following competences:

  • Analysis of geometric parameters of cross sections: baricentres, first and second moments of inertia.
  • Construction materials in civil engineering, more specifically, structural steel and its properties.
  • Analysis of statically determinate structures: simply supported beams, cantilevers and trusses.
  • Analysis of statically indeterminate structures: continuous beams and 2D frames.
  • Use of structural software for structural analysis, as well as programming with datasheets (e.g. Excel or similar).

The subject is organized in the following activities: seminars, group tutorials and computer aided sessions.

RELATION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs):

DIGITALIZATION:

  • Programming with Excel
  • Use of BIM professional software for steel structures design

 

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2024-25

UA Basic Transversal Competences

  • CT10 : Capacity to confront, plan and solve real problems demanded by society in the field of engineering.
  • CT11 : Capacity to learn and apply new concepts and methods in an autonomous and interdisciplinary fashion.
  • CT12 : Capacity to assimilate and adapt to the permanent evolution of technology when developing one's professional career.
  • CT14 : Capacitat d'autocrítica necessària per a l'anàlisi i millora de la qualitat d'un projecte.
  • CT8 : Capacity to plan tasks and commit oneself to satisfying goals and deadlines.
  • CT9 : Capacity for group work.

 

Specific Competences (Civil Branch)

  • CE6 : Understand the behaviour of reinforced concrete, pre-stressed concrete and metal structures, and capacity to conceive, design, build and maintain these kinds of structures.

 

Basic Transversal Competences

  • CB3 : That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make judgements that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
  • CB5 : Students should have developed the necessary learning skills to undertake later studies with a high level of autonomy.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2024-25

  • Applied knowledge of the technological properties and behaviour models of the materials and elements which are commonly used for the design and construction of steel structures.
  • Competence for understanding and application of the Spanish and European standards for the design and construction of steel structures.
  • Applied knowledge of the different structural analysis methods for steel structures according to the Spanish and European standards.
  • Competence for projecting, designing, building and conservating steel structures of moderate complexity.

 

 

General

Code: 33525
Lecturer responsible:
Ortega Álvarez, Jose Marcos
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS
    Area: ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS
    Theoretical credits: 0
    Practical credits: 0
  • Dept: CIVIL ENGINEERING
    Area: CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught