Gregory Michaelson

This channel belongs to Gregory Michaelson, a civil engineering professor at Marshall University in the United States. He records his own classes and posts them online, so students anywhere can follow along.

The videos are complete lectures, usually around 45 minutes each, filmed as he teaches. Courses include structural analysis, timber design and bridge engineering. He works through loads, reactions, shear and moment diagrams and beam deflections on the board, step by step. New lectures appear regularly during term time. His clear board work makes it easy to pause, copy the method and try a problem yourself.

Some highlights include:

A lecture on finding support reactions and handling point loads and spread out loads on a structure.

The opening lecture of a timber design course, explaining why wood is used as a structural material.

A lecture comparing two design methods and the different types of load engineers must allow for.

The channel has over 79,000 subscribers.

Few people get to sit in on a university engineering lecture before they apply. This channel lets you do exactly that. It shows the maths and mechanics at the heart of civil and structural engineering, the field behind buildings, bridges and other infrastructure. Some terms and codes are American, but the principles are the same as on a UK degree. Watching a lecture or two is an honest way to check that this kind of study appeals.