Audience:  Secondary School

The Bridge Designer will provide you with a realistic introduction to engineering through an authentic, hands-on design experience. This software provides you with the tools to model, test, and optimize a steel highway bridge, based on realistic specifications, constraints, and performance criteria.

When you start up the Bridge Designer, you are presented with the project requirement–to design a steel truss bridge to carry a two-lane highway across a deep river valley.

Students can download the free software at: https://bridgedesigner.org/download/

The software gives you the flexibility to create designs using just about any shape or configuration you want. Creating the design is fast and easy, so you can experiment with many different alternative configurations as you work toward an optimum solution.

For a comprehensive tutorial guiding through the creation and optimization of a bridge design can be found at: https://bridgedesigner.org/tutorial/

You can run a competition in class and vote who has the best bridge!

This event does not require any booking.