Steel Educators' Tip Sheet

August 2012

Encourage your students to participate in AISC's Student Photo Contest; winners to be announced on SteelDay.

AISC is hosting a Student Photo Contest. Students enter by submitting a photo or photos that best celebrate the visual experience of steel. The deadline for submissions is Saturday, September 22 and winners will be announced on SteelDay, Friday, September 28. Visit www.aisc.org/studentphotocontest for more information. Please encourage your students to participate.

Click here to find out how to participate in one of the many free SteelDay 2012 events.

New teaching aids have been posted, and others have been updated.

AISC Teaching Aids: Updates to "Core Teaching Aids for Structural Steel Design Courses" has been posted, and materials from Ronald Ziemian's presentation at the 2012 Educator Session "Stability: Using Computer Software as a Virtual Lab for Learning Structural Stability" are now available. Visit www.aisc.org/teachingaids to download these and other AISC Teaching Aids.

Be sure to submit your reservation online so that your students can take advantage of the Student Discount Program.

Have you reserved AISC Manuals for your students? Visit www.aisc.org/studentdiscountprogram and submit your reservation for Manuals for the Fall semester. Contact Maria Mnookin (mnookin@aisc.org) with any questions.

Proposals for 2012 are now being accepted; submissions are due September 15, 2012.

Proposals are now being accepted for the 2012 Milek Fellowship, which is a four-year, $30,000-per-year award for promising university faculty members to conduct structural steel research. Submissions will be accepted until Saturday, September 15. For more information, visit www.aisc.org/facultyfellowship.

Register now to receive a complimentary license for SIMON

SIMON is software for preliminary design of steel plate and tub girders. SIMON is part of NSBA’s Steel Bridge Software Suite which also contains SPLICE, Steel Bridge Collaboration Standards, and the Steel Bridge Design Handbook. SIMON has a new, intuitive graphical user interface, code checking to the AASHTO 5th edition LRFD, easy material quantity takeoffs, and Means and Methods based cost estimation.

Register and receive your complimentary license for SIMON by visiting www.steelbridges.org/softwareregistration. For questions regarding LRFD SIMON, please send your inquiries to nsbasimon@steelbridges.org.

The SteelWise feature in Modern Steel Construction provides practical knowledge on a number of topics, ranging from stability analysis, to how choice of corrosion protection affects connection design, to practical considerations for expansion joints in buildings.

The May 2012 SteelWise installment clears up some common points of confusion with R=3 directly-welded flange moment connections, and provides some practical detailing recommendations for their web connections. The July 2012 SteelWise feature is a guide for choosing the best welding option for skewed single-plate shear tabs.