Main presenter			Co-presenter(s)
Name :	Prof Dominique Bauer		Name:
E-mail:	dominique.bauer@etsmtl.ca		E-mail:
Institution or Company:	École de technologie supérieure		Name:
Department:	Génie de la construction		E-mail:
City:	Montréal		Name:
State/Province:	Québec		E-mail:
Country:	Canada		Name:
Type of presentation:	Lecture :  25 minutes.		E-mail:
Conference strand and number:	Derive & TI-CAS ,    Number: D40		Schedule:   Room:	Thursday, 11h30   1752
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Title of presentation:	Using the TI voyage 200 in Structural Analysis
Abstract:
The speaker will propose a few examples of problem solving in structural analysis that illustrate the use of the TI voyage 200, a symbolic and graphic calculator. The examples deal with the classical methods of analysis for both statically determinate and indeterminate structures, within the scope of a first course on structural analysis at the undergraduate level. The use of the TI voyage 200 greatly reduces the mathematical difficulties in problem solving, and thus allows the students to spend more time in developing a good understanding of the behaviour of structures. The TI voyage 200 is a complex tool and the examples illustrate how to use the calculator in such a way that the students will want to take advantage of its computational power throughout their career as engineers. The examples are taken from the textbook used in structural analysis at the École de technologie supérieure (Samikian,1994) and are an attempt to update its contents by including the use of a symbolic calculator.