In almost all the civil engineering programs in the United States, a student would be required to take at least one structural design course. Steel and reinforced concrete design are the two primary courses that are offered by essentially every civil engineering program. Students who take a structural design course have already taken courses in statics, mechanics of materials, and structural analysis. Moreover, the steel design course is usually taken by a student during the third or fourth year of his/her 4-year program of study, and could be the student’s first introduction to a formal design course
