In this episode, we review our Top 10 Structural Engineering Episodes since this podcast started and talk about some of the great lessons we learned from those podcast episodes. Here Are Our Top 10 Structural Engineering Episodes: #10. TSEC 35: The State of Structural Engineering in Higher Education Drew Dudley, P.E., SE, Vice President at Dudley Dunham Engineering, and a lecturer at Texas A&M University, talked about the state of structural engineering and higher education. In this episode, we learned that universities have become more research-dominated, which is especially important for the growth and development of the industry. But, at the same time, there is a need for people who understand the materials and technology that we have at our disposal now. Click for Audio // Click for Video #9. TSEC 32: Structural Redundancy in Steel Bridges: What You Need to Know Jason B. Lloyd, Ph.D., P.E., a Bridge Steel Specialist at NSBA, talked about redundancy in steel bridges, steel, and failure of critical members. We learned that there are certain aspects of engineering that cannot be scaled. One of them was fatigue and fracture. Bridges must be inspected every two years, and the loading requirements must be revisited and assessed according to population growth. Click for Audio // Click for Video #8. TSEC 29: Fire Engineering Explained With Prof. Dr. Olivier Vassart Prof. Dr. Olivier Vassart, Chief Executive Officer of Steligence at ArcelorMittal, talked about fire engineering and why structures need to be constructed in line with fire safety codes and regulations. We learned that if all the different parts of construction are built to be optimum, then you rarely have an optimum structure, so you need to make a sacrifice somewhere to optimize the entire structure. Engineers are specializing in structural fire engineering and performance-based design of fire engineering and where it is needed. Click for Audio // Click for Video #7. TSEC 03: Here’s Why Base Isolation Is Rarely Used in the United States — It Doesn’t Sell Units We talked with Ronald O. Hamburger, SE, who is a Senior Principal at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, and Evan Reis, SE, and co-founder of the U.S. Resiliency Council. We talked about base isolation, and what stood out for me here was the reasons behind the significant difference between the number of buildings in the U.S. and other countries that utilize base isolation. He mentioned that it is due to economic reasons as opposed to technical reasons, and that while it is not much more expensive to build a base-isolated building in the U.S. than it is in other countries, there are some incremental construction costs associated with base isolation, which is the primary reason that it's not being used for many structures in the U.S. Click for Audio #6. TSEC 02: The State of the Structural Engineering Industry from the ASCE SEI Structures Congress Part 1 We talked with David Cocke, Stehanie Slocum, and Dr. Elaina Sutley at the ASCE SEI Structures Congress in Orlando. What stood out from this episode is when they were talking about commodities and how too often, when we complain that we are a commodity, it is because we are looking at it from a perspective of “what’s in it for me” as opposed to “how can I best serve my client.” Click for Audio #5. TSEC 39: The Difference Between Construction Engineering and Structural Engineering Andrew (Drew) Twarek, a project manager at Ruby & Associates, Inc. Structural Engineers, talked about construction engineering, what it is, and how it differs from "regular" structural engineering. He talked about why contractors need a construction engineer. He said that it was to ensure the safety of the workers and structure in the design phase when they have construction issues that they need to solve or run into problems that need repairing. Click for Audio  #4.