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APK: a network to improve the interest in steel construction
Author(s) -
Muzeau JeanPierre,
Silva Loïc Da
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ce/papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2509-7075
DOI - 10.1002/cepa.1562
Subject(s) - curriculum , engineering ethics , engineering , focus (optics) , dissemination , engineering management , political science , public relations , pedagogy , sociology , telecommunications , physics , optics
APK was launched in 1991. It is now 30 years old and it continues to produce and to disseminate pedagogical resources and to bring academics and professionals together. Every 4 years, seminars are proposed to examine how to adapt the different curricula to be as close as possible to professional requirements. Alternately, a workshop is organized to focus on a specific problem related to the advantages of steel in construction. Three times a year, a consistent journal which contains useful tools to improve lectures is circulated. This paper describes how it has been possible for APK to maintain its activities and to remain as attractive as it was at the beginning. It emphasizes its main results, on the one hand for the academic world and, on the other hand, for the steel construction professionals. It clarifies the French system of education. It is a reminder of the European programs which have been disseminated. It describes some specific tools provided to the academics. It highlights proposals to attract students and make them interested in steel construction. It suggests different ways of promoting education to steel and provides some ideas to remain attractive in the future.