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May 29, 2011 at 10:03 PM #701102May 30, 2011 at 1:11 PM #699979
briansd1
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MIT’s offering is woefully inadequate – most courses lack answer sets, there is no feedback mechanism, chat, user comments.
The name OPEN is in their title, but appears to be in name only, i.e., you have to be MIT material if you hope to get anything out of the class.It came out with great fanfare 10 years ago, but needs someone like Khan to run the place. Yeah, merge Khan Academy into MIT open course and then I could learn from MIT Architecture class – Basic Structural Design. Note there are no notes, lectures, problems, etc. How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Talk about detrimental reliance.[/quote]Me too, I want a degree in building construction in my spare time.
May 30, 2011 at 1:11 PM #700074Guest[quote=equalizer]
MIT’s offering is woefully inadequate – most courses lack answer sets, there is no feedback mechanism, chat, user comments.
The name OPEN is in their title, but appears to be in name only, i.e., you have to be MIT material if you hope to get anything out of the class.It came out with great fanfare 10 years ago, but needs someone like Khan to run the place. Yeah, merge Khan Academy into MIT open course and then I could learn from MIT Architecture class – Basic Structural Design. Note there are no notes, lectures, problems, etc. How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Talk about detrimental reliance.[/quote]Me too, I want a degree in building construction in my spare time.
May 30, 2011 at 1:11 PM #700662Guest[quote=equalizer]
MIT’s offering is woefully inadequate – most courses lack answer sets, there is no feedback mechanism, chat, user comments.
The name OPEN is in their title, but appears to be in name only, i.e., you have to be MIT material if you hope to get anything out of the class.It came out with great fanfare 10 years ago, but needs someone like Khan to run the place. Yeah, merge Khan Academy into MIT open course and then I could learn from MIT Architecture class – Basic Structural Design. Note there are no notes, lectures, problems, etc. How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Talk about detrimental reliance.[/quote]Me too, I want a degree in building construction in my spare time.
May 30, 2011 at 1:11 PM #700810Guest[quote=equalizer]
MIT’s offering is woefully inadequate – most courses lack answer sets, there is no feedback mechanism, chat, user comments.
The name OPEN is in their title, but appears to be in name only, i.e., you have to be MIT material if you hope to get anything out of the class.It came out with great fanfare 10 years ago, but needs someone like Khan to run the place. Yeah, merge Khan Academy into MIT open course and then I could learn from MIT Architecture class – Basic Structural Design. Note there are no notes, lectures, problems, etc. How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Talk about detrimental reliance.[/quote]Me too, I want a degree in building construction in my spare time.
May 30, 2011 at 1:11 PM #701168Guest[quote=equalizer]
MIT’s offering is woefully inadequate – most courses lack answer sets, there is no feedback mechanism, chat, user comments.
The name OPEN is in their title, but appears to be in name only, i.e., you have to be MIT material if you hope to get anything out of the class.It came out with great fanfare 10 years ago, but needs someone like Khan to run the place. Yeah, merge Khan Academy into MIT open course and then I could learn from MIT Architecture class – Basic Structural Design. Note there are no notes, lectures, problems, etc. How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Talk about detrimental reliance.[/quote]Me too, I want a degree in building construction in my spare time.
May 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM #699999bsrsharma
ParticipantHow the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!
FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)
May 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM #700094ParticipantHow the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!
FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)
May 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM #700682ParticipantHow the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!
FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)
May 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM #700830ParticipantHow the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!
FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)
May 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM #701188ParticipantHow the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!
FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)
May 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM #700018eavesdropper
Participant[quote=bsrsharma]How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!
FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)[/quote]
I don’t need Khan Academy OR MIT!! I can just come here to Piggs for all my academic needs (Note to self: Check “Building With Big, Fat Greek Columns” off prerequisite list)
May 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM #700114Participant[quote=bsrsharma]How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!
FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)[/quote]
I don’t need Khan Academy OR MIT!! I can just come here to Piggs for all my academic needs (Note to self: Check “Building With Big, Fat Greek Columns” off prerequisite list)
May 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM #700702Participant[quote=bsrsharma]How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!
FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)[/quote]
I don’t need Khan Academy OR MIT!! I can just come here to Piggs for all my academic needs (Note to self: Check “Building With Big, Fat Greek Columns” off prerequisite list)
May 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM #700850Participant[quote=bsrsharma]How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Well, you should have asked how to design the Golden Gate Bridge , an engineering marvel of its times. Greeks knew very little of what we call today structural engineering and still built those columns; so it is not that difficult to design them!
FYI, Big Fat Greek columns are too fat to buckle and hence fail only by crushing (technically, shear or compression failure). An easy formula to design them would be select a cross sectional area larger than the materials shear or compression strength (times any factor of safety you prefer/ building code requires)[/quote]
I don’t need Khan Academy OR MIT!! I can just come here to Piggs for all my academic needs (Note to self: Check “Building With Big, Fat Greek Columns” off prerequisite list)
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