Structural Engineering is inherently a discipline seeking a scientific and objective explanation with which everyone can agree, unlike the most other branches in Atchitecture. In particular, Structural Mechanics is also a discipline dealing with the prediction of distribution, magnitude and direction of forces generated within a building structure by various artificial as well as natural causes due to a given function. The corresponding work process relevant to the discipline is called "Structural Analysis", that is performed for

design and evaluation of the behavioral performance of building structures. Therefore, the students will realize through the present coursework how wonderful and valuable it is to predict the characteristics and the flow of unseeable and intangible forces, and the resultant effects. A significant step in the modern "Structural Analysis" was made at the 16th century by Leonardo da Vinch and Galileo Galilei who investigated the behavioral characteristics of beams, cables and columns. Since then, the discipline has been further developed with various methods and theories suggested by various scientists and researchers based on the experimental studies, with the demands in the newly formed market through the Industrial Revolution, and with the emergence of new materials. Largely, the methods of structural analysis can be classified into so-called "Classical Methods" and "Computerized Methods". The "Classical Methods" of analysis help engineers understand the basic background and the mechanism of structural performances, while the "Computerized Methods" enable engineers to figure out the stress distribution and deformation of building structures quickly with simple input data regardless of their size and complexity, although there may exist a matter of reliability. However, it should be careful that the students may lose their sensitivity to the structural behavior which engineers are supposed to possess, if

they are too much dependent upon the "Computerized Methods" due to their convenience. The present coursework introduces both methods to the students to help them comprehend the basics of structural analysis and at the same time, possess a tool to promptly obtain the results. The scope of the present coursework extends beyond that of Structural Mechanics 1 to the statically indeterminate structures in which the load paths and boundary condiions are far more complicated than statically determinate structures. However, it is not an extremely hard object to accomplish, as long as the students stay within the "First Principle". Upon the completion of the coursework, the students are expected to relate the structural behavior of trusses, beams and frames to their physical conditions.