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Expedition Workshed

Expedition Workshed is a collection of high-impact online tools to support the teaching of civil and structural engineering.

Visit the Workshed site

Since early 2010 Think Up has been working with Expedition and its other sister companies in the Useful Simple Trust to develop and implement exciting new content for the site. The Workshed site is being used by universities across the UK and now in the Americas. As well as supporting undergraduate teaching we are also developing Workshed resources to support teachers in schools.

Visit the Workshed blog to follow the latest news on new content and who is using Workshed

Think Up is responsible for the operation and development of the site content. Follow the links below to read more about the development of Workshed content.
Push-Me-Pull-Me – interactive online structural models
Material testing videos – high definition professionally produced videos exploring material failure
Projects – inspirational videos about people, projects and ideas
Drawing Board – how engineers use sketching to communicate
Catastrophe - the addictive structureal engineering game



Background
We have been closely involved with the education of engineers since the late 1990’s through teaching, participation in Industrial Liaison Boards and 5 years membership of the Joint Board of Moderators, the organisation responsible for accrediting civil engineering courses in the UK. During that time we have seen significant drivers for change in the teaching of civil and structural engineering at HE-level: increased student numbers; increased importance of research; and the different character and makeup of the student population, both in terms of their academic formation and attitudes to learning.
These drivers have presented very significant challenges to the institutions responsible for engineering education, for example: lower student standards of maths and physics; less experience of building by hand; teaching space and resources having not grown to match student numbers; engineering academics with less experience of practice.

We developed Expedition Workshed as a suite of teaching tools designed to respond to these challenges. Read more about the on-going development of each of these tools by choosing from the list below: