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If you miss a weekly exam due to a university excused absence, contact me immediately, or as soon thereafter as you can, by email at lowery@tamu.edu.  Otherwise I will assume that you do not plan on taking a make-up.  To the university excused absence list you are permitted to add absences required for job interviews, university service such as Fish Camp, etc.  For interviews I would want to see your letter from the company stating the date that they would like to interview you, or at least come look me in the eye and state the reason. If your reason is reasonable, I will probably still let you take a make-up, say for oversleeping or being in jail for drunk and disorderly, but those would be special requests.  It can never hurt to ask.  I can only say no, but am pretty flexible on that.

NOTE: UNLESS YOU TRULY HAVE UNIVERSITY QUALITY EXCUSES, THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF EXAMS THAT YOU CAN RETAKE WILL BE FIVE.  I AM SADLY NOT WILLLING TO SIT THERE FOR DAYS MAKING OUT AND GRADING SPECIAL EXAMS JUST BECAUSE YOU CANNOT MAKE AN 8:00 AM CLASS.

You must then email me with all of the following information as soon as possible after the exam was administered:

The subject line really MUST read exactly as follows:

Makeup exam for CVENXXX, Y, and your name.

where XXX = the course number (221, 305, 444, 446, 686, …), Y = which quiz (Weekly 1, Weekly 16, Rogue 9, etc.), and your name.

Inside the email, state:

Your name
What class you missed (CVEN 221 makeup, or 305, 322, 345, 444, 446, or whatever)
Date the exam was given
What number exam you missed  (Weekly 01, Weekly 02, Rogue 09, Rogue 12, …)
Your email address
Why you will miss, or missed the exam.

It MUST be identical to that.  CVEN XXX makeup.  The reason for this is that I get hundreds of spam messages a day and I just won’t see your email otherwise.  If you don’t get a response from me saying  you can or cannot take the make-up in a few days, email me again.

I will then respond to these emails with permission, or not, to take the make-up later in the semester.  Failure to take the makeup will result in a zero for the exam.

The makeup exam will be given whenever we can mostly all get together, perhaps on a weekend or some evening.  Note that it is 100% your responsibility to inform me that you need a make-up exam.  Many people miss the exam because they are dropping out of school or out of this class, and I simply cannot track you all down at bad email addresses and inaccurate telephone numbers to find out why you missed an exam and whether or not you intend to take the make-up.  It is your responsibility to contact me as listed above.  I will reply to you with a return email.  Hang onto it and bring it to the make-up exam to get in.

There will hopefully be only one make-up date given, but if you truly cannot meet with the rest of us, I will see if I can set another time/date.

Later in the semester I will send something similar to:  “As stated on the syllabus a make-up exam date has been scheduled for everyone who notified me that they need to take one.  If you neglected to let me know that you needed to take a make-up, and why, you are still welcome to show up at this time, and plead your case.  No guarantees.  We will meet at (date, room and time.)  Please bring a copy of each of the emails I sent you stating that a make-up was OK.”

Note that once you miss an exam there is simply no way for me to tailor individual exams similar to the one you missed.  Thus far I have over 20 of you who have what I consider a reasonable excuse for a make-up.  Thus we will wait until later in the semester to set a time and place for everyone to take it.  Be prepared for anything we have covered in the class, since making one out just like the one you missed would neither be possible, nor fair to the other students, since you have by then had an extra two months to figure out how to work it.

 If you missed more than one, we will just keep on giving them out, twenty minutes to work the first replacement, then move on the the next one until you get all of them made up.  Note again, the maximum of 5 make-ups.  I understand that when your bus got hit by the train, it took you a while to pull 12 trapped survivors out of the flaming wreckage, but whereas missing the quiz on that day was reasonable, going to the award ceremony where you were awarded the National Holy Cross of Heroism and Valor could have been put off to a non-quiz day.

No longer works since we aren’t in Zach Building!

No longer works since we aren’t in Zach Building!

CVEN 305/301 (10402)

Mechanics of Materials

Lectures and Notes – 2021b (Summer 2021)

MWF 8:00am – 9:10am

6/01/2021 to 08/11/2021

The Lectures are MP4 on Zoom.  A password is given since they sent me one with the file, but I’m not sure they are needed.

Please also note that the links below will be blank until we have had the class and generate the materials.

Class	Material covered if we can stick to the schedule. Time on video/Covered. Class start times are for last semester and will be updated when known.
Class 1 Wednesday 6/2/21	Class 01 starts 12:36 minutes into the video. How to use the syllabus, Statics, axial normal (tension ans compressive) and shear stresses Class notes 01 but SEE VIDEO below for use https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/X5UjgvwJBeywVpeNT0VS7wzSTMhe8HuYO8ByX5VwpKLXPxW5gPcLCIvirtIlvcjp.LAt8PIl1xIuNsIcy Access Password:     PBmn=T6.
Class 2 Friday 6/04/21	Class 02 starts 1 hour 5 minutes into the video. More normal and shear stresses, bolt bearing stresses. Sigma = stress in an existing structure, Sigma Allowed = the stress permitted by the governing code written by experts on that material. Equations are used for analysis (what is the stress in an existing structure with a code load on it), to determine the allowed load in an existing structure, or to determine the required size for a planned structure (design)., Class notes 02 but SEE VIDEO below for use https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/2Vj-eEJ8vwsM9wyOvnne1J0_l1jABqEUM5QGpCSi5Qg8jlG6Ft_YCxHNHK1mP6sF.sHbtgniao0PRK7Cj Access Password: RVZ6*!*^
Class 3 Monday 6/7/21	Class 03 starts 14 minutes into the video. Class 03 axial stress in rod at angle, Factor of safety yield stress strain Class notes 03 but SEE VIDEO below for use https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/O6Hg1rA3w0mHjYll-mW_XWblgdSsnRyXCZmyrK0BMLb35Hpwsg5H2IRvQVLK26ke.YWFBkcc7ghKZBsh- Access Password:      ^R6Mb2s*
Class 4 Wednesday 6/9/21	Class 04 starts 53 mins into the video Stress strain deformation stress concentratios fatigue, Stresses in pinned bars, tensile, compressive, bearing stresses in bolted connections, stress concentrtions around holes in bars and plates and torsional shafts and rctangular bars. Class notes 04 but SEE VIDEO below for use https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/t6jOspZa-hSjgsMFycAzaGoZ6NjiyQ66C5pzfgcnTawiUbAC6voe1t29AYI4JfpD.GfLXc2Yng4q2Ko4_ Access Password:      p?mDW^0M
EXTRA Thursday 6/10/21	Zoom solution to Problem 2 on Weekly Quiz #2 (quiz 3) https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/5FOiZDEpb8vJT5YmzX-cChwZdsY-RZPf_X3KNPBSpd7iizejNTrufs8-vAfI59Wu.66E105TdFyUXBFU2 Access Password:      E*a@EWw9
Class 5 Friday 6/11/21	Class 05 Starts 18 minutes into the video.  ENDS at 46 minutes.  The rest is blank, students taking exam.  I tried to cut out just the classso it may start at zero. 6/11/21 – Statically INDETERMINATE structures Class notes 05 but SEE VIDEO below for use https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/0a_rNDHiHB0jTEqWslyyLSg4Z0qPWcJMhOfshVmyeoPR1Eu1OJRGUBTmFYiBEpvp.R3_eUo0P1TlfC10s Access Password:      7n7AB0n^ Weekly quiz #1 at end of class.
Class 6 Monday 6/14/21	LECTURE 6 starts at 10 mins into the video, Statically indeterminate structures, Stress concentration factors, Poission’s ratio, quit at torsion 6/14/2021      Class notes 06 but SEE VIDEO below for use https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/hXuy7VbPybNJ_3tZz8mre63LJE6v8M6EvnJN4PAB0qUuju5xWqhWi-5H1JDHVL_5.NdvLvaBQT3G8Q3ZI Access Password:      7MkL=6bP
Class 7 Wednesday 6/16/21	Lecture 7 starts at 50 mins into the video.  Torsional stresses and deformations. Class notes 07 but SEE VIDEO below for use https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/RpcAIEDd7tf07FJmxs-JOXnVbVkS0gsA-wyeWPEn0sute5f9hTn_mJsjMUtZoqSj.kjr3_pHyhoXbB_c7 Access Password: 5p^pJgM$
Class 8 Friday 6/18/21	Lecture 8 No class was held on Juneteenth.
Class 9 Monday 6/21/21	Lecture 9 Torsion moments inside circular or hollow shafts, description of tables for E, G, WF, etc. Class notes 09 https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/Z2EamBnGRW5dPAAmIcztbew4Ny-roBZ-2I5pbAh73JsMMi2naaN9ZnCemP4n334_.focwZgSss-V9dA1D Access Password:      ?P5SCwP0 Lecture 9a – last half of Lecture 9  but SEE VIDEO below for use https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/dRYKceoNQOYSIoJlc2cTbfjZd1P1TmME0NbyGZAf661tk4TtXclkF-1eALtQsT7I.LcO3UT_tfHheYGV2 Access Password:     THJ#0iu3
Class 10 Wednesday 6/23/21	Lecture 10 – Lecture starts 29 minutes into the video –  Statically indeterminate torsion shafts. Class notes 10 https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/hR7HwnWyxlQ1gd0JciNimjpJh0mQTZi7U0anWztRjj6LG5G4eoHMpH2NRVMX0DcU.2WgWuHd51NvxERtL Access Password:      ND.30v%f OLD!!! Short review, 305 equation sheet review, how stresses are distributed in structures due to axial loads, shearing loads, torsional loads, BENDING LOADS, solve for torque in statically indeterminate torsionally loaded bar then determine required size of bar.  Start on bending moments, stresses.
Class 11 Friday 6/25/21	Lecture 11 – Lecture starts 43 minutes into the video –  Statically indeterminate torsion shafts. Quiz 04 starts at 30 minutes into lecture – Problem on axial movement in middle of bar. Class Notes 11 https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/4Z1L4uBvrSTAqmIt8bB7Fx9YFvnJ9fj82wisDs-tz9vgB4DN01zJiBZ9hgT-44FH.9GEWTQMwGtFOypoN Access Password:       S7hvF^rY
Class 12 Monday 6/28/21	Lecture 12 – Lecture starts 60 minutes into the video –  Bending stresses, general equations developed so far in class, comparisons between statically determinate and statically indeteminate structures. Class notes 12 https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/wbx-v5neeLnKIoOE1xycR-TyHvncqf0jEaCHLdb4WJphtdtoTZ1uy9sN7_fhRT36.dy-I3C-JDFhd6wcy Access Password:       .7aa+h?r
Class 13 Wednesday 6/30/21	Lecture 13 – Lecture starts 55 minutes into the video – https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/ZmU0f-qpR7MVyhoFLUTo1ZA3EAw-DaSA39Rs2zRWqFM4diYFhucuY145P79k3SEQ.PDKnjf6P-nvB00SA Access Password:        $9g$8Fl6 Class notes 13
Class 14 Friday 7/2/21	Lecture 14 – Lecture starts 55 minutes into the video – Brief review of 305 equations, use of many kinds of stredd concentration factors, introduction to bending of composite beams. https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/g-wsg7Qg6lQK5lsNwtDK77mTNF4r4GR0givVJWvd7whj4UH8JkTGuaQE6n3Met_T.5b48KL5yvjMXCFGo Access Password:      5Ck1kGH= Class notes 14
July 4th Monday 7/5/21	Sorry.  These didnt work for some reason.  Thanks Suddenlink. Help session on homework 6.1 https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/vIY2d-ZigAs8b3cbjn40CYBHFE1GprB0iD5JFXx9FqAZ43XZrX4nbfnmViGoP_7J._PtQErRmTv6QHKFA Access Password: G&9Qk?yY   And after dropped line trying to recover at https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/1VMrJDNUBtfUONmGdqFbDEl_3yauGs_blyr6A8PhGjbwcHgZHN113VKYibrfrCxE.mfwYxKxiEyhTpWAK Access Password: 3O5Pnr.Q   And after dropped line trying to recover at https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/5bCVF-7uduh3Br0Sd4p3j38HqDDqhQTGUOrY4oO0JbIpnAiMu0KyogYQOxlRgwoz.397R9JWdhVTHOUXD Access Password: v6@JBXLN   And after dropped line trying to recover at https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/RRvm6ywWe2l6bTjw_476-LolBYWt_NIYfnpdVcAZg8GQf7SBUP4CLqKtpkQOwTs5.vJPCpjBXl-wdJv9o Access Password: 6JNO.4bR
Class 15 Wednesday 7/7/21	Lecture 15 – Lecture starts 55 minutes into the video – Composite beam bending (two materials), Stress distributions due to variations in standard loadings such as axial loading off of the centroidal axis of a bar. https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/FWlkwVZnLJdQrslRBMtjwBvKPuMMUZn-4cFEBQ1v_tWU5hgyA2bFPmvHszk0U-3b.EjmYQfnWHI3x4hd9 Access Password:      #O9izFp@ Class notes 15
Class 16 Friday 7/9/21	Lecture 16 – Starts immediately.  Shear stresses in beams due to applied moments. https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/ItzbiuRdO3AJYnz95-QOsRJmbiAc3FHfsZUENQEmjpGI7yX0Uwahjf-0fTt_DUQ6.sUGxjRFabKIevkN_ Access Password:      *5gV$pd+ Class notes 16
Class 17 Monday 7/12/21	Lecture 17 – Starts immediately. Beam deflection derivaton, getting moments at points in beams, so can write equations for Mx, M as a function of x. https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/Dnayg76syxe6iYtAu2BwPe_faLbnnZSR2GBv3EffrJHYdfnZspj-_uPPBYxxjC0F.fUWkdgU0UL_cLCNS Access Password:         EU=Qx1Bf Class notes 17
Class 18 Wednesday 7/14/21	Lecture 18 – Starts immediately.  Introduction to stress at a point, stresses at various angles at a point and how the equations were obtained (by statics). Solution for stresses in a beam loaded by an axial load and bending moments about both the x-x (strong) and the y-y (weak) neutral axii. https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/sozfQxNPhmeB8aObFicg0Mr8lfhJ9RhLBTbUBrBNQVAejMuf0Ra2yE1-bnbiuOJD.uTeZcn9e9YSSXJa1 Access Password:       Z1?3*p=j Class notes 18
Class 19 Friday 7/16/21	Lecture 19 – Stress at a point 2 (1/2 hour before quiz) https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/4HNlvHqyiaYk8y9Dy5epEIZ2L5AOHX5h2HLrt9uD5kguMVuY4LKGaUKf14_N4Xir.XW-tg3qoRQZN0p4v Access Password:      ^i%chG7Q Class notes 19
Class 20 Monday 7/19/21	Lecture 20 – 07-19-21b Mon Stress transformations, stress at a point, Mohr’s circle, finding principal stresses using Mohr’s Circle, rather than equations.. https://tamu.zoom.us/rec/share/kfrAPkPzoy741-yWbnkZIW6NGWCkok0Qn6vq9BBVwm8yoczwQrnh9XAEaT3vDt_q.tZEQTkf8zIyBtL7O Access Password:      zT!9GC6f Class notes 20
Class 21 Wednesday 7/21/21	OLD!!! Class starts 20 minutes into the video. Quick review of finding principal shear and normal (tension and compressive) stresses at a point where sigmax, sigmay and tayxy are known from P/A, Mc/I, VQ/It, etc.
Class 22 Friday 7/23/21	OLD!!! Class starts 44 minutes into the video Three examples of using Mohr’s circle to find principal stresses Discussion about the solution to today’s weekly quiz starts at 2hrs, 5minutes
.Class 23 Monday 7/26/21	OLD!!! Class starts 28 minutes into the video Class covers brief review of the equations sheet, out of plane shear stresses by equations and Mohr’s circle, stresses in thinwalled cylindricaland spherical pressure vessels, introduction to beam deflections.
Class 24 Wednesday 7/28/21	OLD!!! Class starts 22:30 minutes into the video Beam deflections by direct integration.
Class 25 Friday 7/30/21	OLD!!! Class starts 25 minutes into the video. Weekly quiz 08 discussion starts 2:14:00 into the video. More beam deflections by direct integration for simply loaded beams with continuous equations from end to end of beam. Next, more complex loadings requiring more than one range of equations.
Class 26 Monday 8/2/21	OLD!!! Class starts 21 minutes into the video. Singularity Functions.
Class 27 Wednesday 8/4/21	OLD!!! Class starts 20 minutes into the vido, however something went wrong and the video is missing until 34 minuteds into the video, so start there. Singularity Functions
Class 28 Friday 8/6/21	OLD!!! Class starts  minutes into the video. Columns I NOT ON FINAL EXAM Friday Weekly exam 09 discussed at end of video
Class 29 Monday 8/9/21	OLD!!! Class starts  minutes into the video. Columns II NOT ON FINAL EXAM
FINAL EXAM Tuesday 8/10/21 8-19am	OLD!!! Final Exam  CHECK THIS YOURSELF !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Once in your account, to get to your homework problems, you click on whatever your class is.  You will then see something like shown here.  Note these slides were made last semester so yours may look different.

I’m not sure exactly what you see but this should be close enough.  The sheet above is from CVEN 305 so the dates, class number, and example problems will obviously be different. It should open under the “Assignment” list, marked in the red box around the top.  If not, change it to “Assignment list” in the drop-down box.  The first green ellipse is where you select the week’s problems you want to work on.  Later green ellipses tell you the deadline when they are due for full credit.  This may be relaxed during the semester.  Finally, circled in green is the status of the homework set.  “In progress” means you are still working on that set and have some un-submitted problems in that set.  “See report” means that set has been “Submitted”, and the “Not Started” means just that.  YOU MUST SUBMIT EACH SET OR NONE OF THEM WILL BE GRADED, so you need to work and get correct as many as possible and NOT SUBMIT THEM YET, until close to the deadline, then SUBMIT THEM.  SADLY, YOU CANNOT SUBMIT EACH PROBLEM AS YOU GET IT CORRECT.  ONCE YOU SUBMIT ANYTHING, EVERYTHING IS SUMITTED and it grades them and that gtade is recorded.

The Attempts Remaining will always say Unlimited, which is true, but your grade for that assignment set will be downloaded and recorded on the deadline date/time listed for that set.  It will let you keep trying past that time and tell you your new/current score, but the one downloaded on the deadline will be your grade.

Be sure to “Submit” all of your work before the listed deadline.  You won’t get credit for anything not submitted when your grades are downloaded at the listed deadline.

To work on a week’s problem set, click (for example) on WEEK 3:

Note that in this case, I must have already submitted problems 1 through 4, since it opened up at Problem 5.  For CVEN 305 it shows:

So I would work out the solution and enter my answer, 666 micrometers in the box:

 I would then click on “Check my work” to see if the answer is correct and get:

So much for guessing and praying.  As noted on the Assistance menu above/right, you can View Hint to help you out.  You can check your work and get hints an unlimited number of times without penalty.

Once you get the problem correct, at the FAR right of the page you see

The first icon is “Go to the eBook”, to see text reference materials regarding this problem.

The next icon is the “Save the responses on this page”, after which you can go to the next problem, or

“Save and Exit”, to save your work done on this page, go home, and come back later.  This is also how you change weeks.

Click “Submit” to submit your work for FINAL grading.  Then that’s it.  You can go back and work on them some more to make sure you know how to work them and it will show you your new improved score, but it won’t report that new score to me, since it was already downloaded to me, and recorded.

Above the icons, there are detailed “Instructions”, and “Help”.

Miscellaneous questions and answers regarding Homework, and the Connect website

One of our students had a problem logging on.  We contacted McGraw Hill and during that exchange we received the following reply:

Good morning,

Please direct the student to our Customer Experience Group (CXG) as they will create a case number.

Customer Experience Group (CXG) Hours of Operation:
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(All times Central)

By Phone:
You can reach us toll-free at 800-331-5094 (US Only)

If there are still issues, please provide the case number for me to escalate.

Sincerely,

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amy.massingale@mheducation.com

This was sent by Amy Massingale [amy.massingale@mheducation.com].  She is the prime contact for this textbook.

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From the course coordinator:

Ultimately, there are three ways the students can register for the course.  I typically explain these during the first class:

1)      Purchase a textbook with Connect access

2)      Purchase a Connect account only with access to the Ebook (and rent/borrow/buy a new or used book)

3)      Purchase an Ebook with Connect access

Each student went through this same process in CVEN 221, so they should have it down.  One caution to be aware of is that some students may still have access to their connect account from CVEN 221, however, these “hold-over” accounts typically expire around October/November and cannot be restarted.  This also becomes a grading nightmare.  Please be sure to mention to those students who think they still have active accounts with Connect that they verify it is good for the entire fall semester.

As you can see, the course is laid out to run on a very tight schedule and the homework corresponds to specific video lectures.  Every week there is a group of homework problems assigned that correspond to the week’s video lectures.  Currently, I have the weekly homework assignments for each section due on Friday.

From: Joe
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 9:25 PM
To: Lee Lowery <lowery@tamu.edu>
Subject: Submitting CVEN 305 Homework past the due dates

Hello Professor,

I just had a simple question.  If we submit the homework past the due date, do we get any credit for it?

Thank you,

Joe

Joe:

Absolutely.  The main credit you get is the confidence that you can work such a problem.  Secondly you have practiced with a problem that may well show up on a weekly quiz or on the final exam (or a similar problem).  But no, it doesn’t change your homework grade.

L^3

Please note that this course changes from year to year. Sometimes, material is completely removed from the course and something else takes its place. Thus, don’t get upset if you never heard of something you see on one of these old quizzes. It’s possible that we just no longer cover it, or that we will cover it on a different exam.

Of highest importance to your continued use of this material: DO NOT bring any of these problems by my office or email them to me and ask me to solve them for you, or they will immediately be removed from distribution. You can take them to the T.A. or the tutor or to your friends, but I simply don’t have time for each of you to individually bring each of  these problems by my office to solve for you. There is simply not enough time during the semester to have each of you (220 students) come by with one problem (about 15 listed in each class per semester) for 7 classes per semester for years 2000 through 2019 and ask me to work them for you at 20 minutes/problem.

I am happy to let you see my old exams, such as they are, to determine what types of problems I gave in the past, and you are welcome to get together and work them out.  But the first person who asks me anything about any one of these exams will cause this resource to immediately disappear, and their name will be posted here:

On __7/28/2019________________, Ms. ___Joe_________________ emailed me the 2015 Final exam and asked something about it.  For this reason the old exams have been removed and are henceforth considered contraband. Their possession is now considered illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Grading Example – read this for an example of how your papers are graded

Note that many of these are quite old, and were converted from Microsoft Word files to .html, and will not properly show on anything but Internet Explorer.  Sorry, but that’s a feature Microsoft put in to keep Firefox and Chrome at bay.

Old problems for which I have no idea when they were given

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Quizzes that are more recent

Solution© to Quiz A Spring 2002	Solution© to Quiz B Spring 2002	Solution© to Final Exam Spring 2002	Solution© to Quiz A Fall 2008	Solution© to Quiz B Fall 2008	Solution© to Final Exam Fall 2008	Solution© to Quiz A Fall 2009	Solution© to Quiz B Fall 2009	Solution© to Final Exam Fall 2009
Solution© to Quiz A Spring 2010	Solution© to Quiz B Spring 2010	Solution© to Final Exam Spring 2010	Solution© to Quiz A Summer 2010	Solution© to Quiz B Summer 2010	Solution© to Final Exam Summer 2010	Solution© to Quiz A Summer 2011	Solution© to Quiz B Summer 2011	Solution© to Final Exam Summer 2011
Solution© to Quiz A Summer 2012 Videos of Solutions: MP4 Problem 1 Problem 2 Problem 3 Problem 4 Problem 5 Problem 6	Solution© to Quiz B Summer 2012Videos of Solutions: MP4 Problem 1 Problem 2 Problem 3 Problem 4 Problem 5 Problem 6	Solution© to Final Exam Summer 2012	Solution© to Quiz A Summer 2013	Solution© to Quiz B Summer 2013Videos of Solutions: Real Player MP4	Solution© to Quiz F Summer 2013Videos of Solutions: MP4 Problem 1 Problem 2 Problem 3 Problem 4 Problem 5	Solution© to Quiz A Spring 2014	Solution© to Quiz B Spring 2014	Solution© to Final Exam Spring 2014
Solution© to Quiz A Summer 2014b	Solution© to Quiz B Summer 2014b	Solution© to Final Exam Summer 2014b	Solution© to Quiz A Spring 2015a	Solution© to Quiz B Spring 2015a	Solution© to Final Exam Spring 2015a	Solutions© to Summer 2020b See eCampus Exam 01 Exam 02 Exam 03 Exam 04 Exam 05 Exam 06 Exam 07 Exam 08 Exam 09 Exam 10

Sorry, but there is just no other word for it.  It sucks.  It has ever since it was first used here and has gotten nothing but worse in its dozen or so incantations over the years.  Mark my word that they will someday trash it to the benefit of all.  However, since I can no longer legally post your grades on my door, nor email them to you, nor get them to you securely in any other fashion I will use it for getting a copy of your weekly exam grades to you.  I would never trust it for doing any grade averaging or calculations, or with my only copy of anything important.  Then if you see an error you can email that to me once and I will correct it ON MY SPREADSHEET.

I have all of your grades on my computer in multiple Excel files and daily backups from which your grades are computed.

So, bottom line, every now and then I may, might, will possibly upload a corrected copy of your grades to eCampus but probably not until the end of the semester.  It takes hours.  Again, the grades on eCampus are not used for ANYTHING, and most certainly not for grading.  They are only to tell you what I had on my EXCEL grade sheet at some time before you came and talked me into giving you another point on quiz 8.

If you find an error on the eCampus listing, bring it to my attention and I will correct my Excel copy.  I will email you when it is done, but have no intention, nor need, to change the eCampus listing several times a day on multiple days for multiple students when they talk me into giving them back a point or two on a quiz.

I will at the end of the semester, repost my final grades spreadsheet to eCampus, if it’s still around, along with any changes made so you can check that they are correct.

One of our students had a problem logging on, or with use of the site.  We contacted McGraw Hill and received the following reply:

Good morning,

Please direct the student to our Customer Experience Group (CXG) as they will create a case number.

Customer Experience Group (CXG) Hours of Operation:
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In this class we will utilize, and you are fully responsible for all materials which you have taken and passed from earlier required classes along with the new materials listed in the current syllabus.  Thus, in this class you are fully responsible for, and should expect to be examined over, and WILL be asked to prove competence in your prior classes.  For example, please make sure that you can solve for reactions on beams and frames before taking CVEN 305, and can draw shear and moment diagrams before trying to take an exam in CVEN 345.

1) CVEN 221 Statics – When taking this class you are responsible from day 1 for all materials covered in Physics 219 or whatever required physics class you were required to pass before being permitted to register for 221.  This includes but is not limited to reactions on simple static structures, moments caused about points in simple structures, etc.  During the semester you will obviously be increasingly responsible for the materials being covered as listed in the current 221 syllabus.

2) CVEN 305 Strength of Materials – When taking this class you are responsible from day 1 for all materials covered in CVEN 221 and all preceding classes you were required to pass before being permitted to register for 305, such as reactions on static structures, moments caused at points in simple structures, etc., plus obviously the new materials being covered in the current 305 syllabus such as axial stresses in two-force members, column buckling loads, stress transformation, thin-walled pressure vessels, etc.

3) CVEN 345 Structural Analysis – CVEN 305 and all preceding classes you were required to pass before being permitted to register for 345, such as reactions on static structures, moments caused at points in simple structures, deflections by direct integration, stresses in axially loaded members, forces in trusses by method of joints and method of sections, combined stresses in beams, transformation of shear stresses, columns, etc., plus obviously the new materials being covered to today in the current 345 class.  Thus if you are asked to solve for the deflection of a beam in 345 before we have covered deflections by the unit load method in 345, you are still completely and totally responsible for getting that answer using your 305 class knowledge. Direct integration, Singularity functions, tables, etc.   No excuses will be accepted if you cannot do this.  It simply means that you are not prepared to be taking 345 and must get your act together and correct these deficiencies if you hope to pass it.

4) CVEN 444/446 – You get the idea.  Just because you somehow talked the professor of your earlier class into thinking you should pass it means nothing now.  If you cannot find the reactions on a uniformly loaded simply supported beam and the corresponding internal shear and moment diagrams, you cannot use the excuse that it has been months since you covered that material and should not be penalized for not being able to work the Steel/Concrete design problem on the exams.

 

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