Teaching-learning through software

a study in the discipline Concrete Structure

Abstract

The vast majority of Civil engineering students have some difficulties when it comes to resources aimed at didactic comprehension aiming at learning the design of concrete structures. In view of the proposed yearning for the development and improvement of the teaching axis in the Northern region, this article seeks to apply software aimed at developing learning by students in the Civil Engineering course, who study the disciplines of Concrete structures, in determining themselves with due to the security and precision required for the reliability of the data, the specifications of a concrete beam subjected to simple bending, more precisely as to the area of ??steel necessary to meet the requesting efforts, whose values, in general, are obtained through manual calculations appropriate to obtain it. The results of the operations carried out manually are obtained, however, there is a natural uncertainty in the process in addition to requiring more time to close the calculation, which for the occasion, a dynamic and practical verification instrument would be of great support. For the assessment of this learning disability, an experiment was developed in two phases, first using research to diagnose the fact and, therefore, software aimed at improving this phase of the course. Finally, it was submitted to the students interviewed in the research, whose result presented the positive reflex of the tool support and thus determining the exercise productivity correctly.