A Structural Engineering Niche Most Don't Know About With Dr. Joshua Schultz

When you think of “Structural Engineering,” you likely picture big concrete or steel structures. Right? 🤔 Exactly — and that’s the problem! 👇

There’s a whole corner of that industry outside of these two materials that most Structural Engineers have never been taught or exposed to before. 😯

Today, we talk to Dr. Joshua Schultz, PhD, P.E. He’s a Structural Engineering professor and consultant whose path started off in architecture, took him to work on the Burj Khalifa, and then led him into a specialty most Structural Engineers overlook.

In this episode, he dives into what this unique niche is, why it’s so unique, and how it brings up a lot of factors of the design work in the real world that school doesn’t teach (from a professor himself!).

If you’re a Structural Engineer — or thinking about becoming one — this episode opens your eyes to career paths you didn’t even know were on the table. There’s more out there than buildings and bridges…if you’re willing to look. 😉

So, go check out this episode to take your first step into this Structural Engineering niche most people never talk about.

🧠 TUNE IN TO LEARN:

• While He Keeps Doing Consulting Work Even as a Full-Time Professor

• The Little-Known Structural Engineering Niche His Career Took Him To

• The Reason Why Using Mass Timber for Structural Design is Still a Challenge

• The Biggest Challenge for Structural Engineers to Use Mass Timber Today

• Has the Interest in a Civil Engineering Degree Been Decreasing?

• Why the New Generation is Going for Civil Engineering vs. Why the Last Generation Did

• Non-Technical Aspects That Drive Any Project But are Not Emphasized in School

• Why Lightweight Structures are so Unique

• His Favorite Lightweight Project in His Career so Far

• His Book on Lightweight Structures for Structural Engineers (And Why He Wrote It)

• His Experience Designing the Tallest Stair in the World's Tallest Building!

• His 2 Biggest Pieces of Advice for Future Structural Engineers That Nothing Can Beat

🔗 RESOURCES MENTIONED:

Structural Design of Lightweight Architecture, by Joshua Schultz

Gonzaga University

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Brooklyn Academy of Music

“How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?”

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