VIRTUAL: Applying Education

Abstract

Architecture is a profession that inherits many inter-disciplinary study areas and it is directly related to several other professions. Curriculum of architectural education includes a variety of courses to cover the fundamentals of all these inter-disciplinary areas. Structural design is one of these areas which connects civil engineering and architecture disciplines. Both architecture and civil engineering programs includes structural design courses and the graduates of these programs are expected to work together in the field. However, the content of the structural design courses in these two programs are different. The aim of this study is investigating and comparing the undergraduate structural design courses in the curriculums of architecture and civil engineering programs of different universities. The courses are examined in terms of their course objectives and ECTS credits. Collected data is scrutinized to compare structural design courses of architecture programs and civil engineering programs. The differences may show the gap between the background knowledge of architecture and civil engineering graduates who are expected to work together in the field.