Find out how Google street view engineers use computational thinking to solve problems. [3:44]

A fascinating time-lapse video showing the four-month process of constructing a modular Smart Home. [1:21]

A video investigating truss analysis. Learn how the method of joints can be used to analyze the strength of a truss. [5:32]

Did you know that your first step in the design of a structure is to find its internal forces? This video will show how you can use the method of sections to determine these forces as you complete your structural analysis. [4:05]

Learn how to do a strength analysis on beams in this video. Video defines beam, bending moment, and shear force. Site also includes an article that discusses topics found in the video. [6:02]

"What if you were on a high floor of a skyscraper and the building started swaying?" This video looks at the designs of structures. Explore statics and dynamics, static equilibrium, forces, and torques, and how free body diagrams can...

Explore the many divisions of civil engineering, including structural and construction engineering, city planning, transportation, and sanitation on this video. [8:45]

Students think like civil engineers in this model lesson as they observe how forces affect structures and implement engineering solutions to balance forces and prevent structural failure. [9:58]

Students think like geotechnical engineers as they take core samples of a model building site and decide how deeply the pier foundations for a model skyscraper should be anchored into the soil. [17:22]

Students celebrate by watching the traffic flow smoothly at their intersection and reflect on the role computers play in helping to solve complex problems. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [1:53]

Students utilize a computer simulation to help solve their problem of traffic light congestion. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [3:55]

Students process and analyze data on traffic light congestion. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [3:31]

Students go to an intersection to collect data on traffic light congestion. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [1:31]

Students meet Dave Musicant, a computer science professor and explain that they want to try to reduce the amount of time they spend waiting at red lights at the intersection by their school. [3 min, 1 sec]

Students visit their city's traffic management center, tour the traffic signal control room and meet with Nick Van Gunst, a traffic engineer who shows them that the city's traffic light system is controlled by computers. They learn that...

This first segment in the 7-part lesson series introduces four high school students, as experience traffic delay problems. They decide to respond to an invitation to work with the city on improving the timing of a traffic signal near...

Inside the world's longest self-anchored suspension bridge being built in quake-prone San Francisco Bay.