About RePicture

RePicture is a virtual community that promotes education and networking among people involved in engineering and STEM. The RePicture community is diverse, comprised of high school students, college students and educators, and engineering design professionals. The mission of RePicture is to promote the important work done by engineers, empower students to envision themselves as engineers, encourage diversity in the field, and foster career opportunities. You can read more about RePicture here.

RePicture + AISC

AISC has teamed with RePicture as a partner in the RePicture STEM Resume-Builder Program. In this program, which can be done as a class assignment, students explore projects constructed with structural steel and learn about steel-related careers. Working with RePicture’s project template and helpful directions, students research, write up, and publish a project page on RePicture’s website about a structural steel project from AISC’s Modern Steel Construction magazine.  Students can submit their work to win an AISC sponsored prize, which will be reviewed by a panel at AISC. You can find examples of RePicture + AISC projects completed by Case Western Reserve University structural engineering class students in the Fall of 2020 here.

Writing assignments have an important, though seldom utilized, place in engineering curricula. Reading and then writing about an engineering project not only provides a deeper understanding of the technical topic, it also offers the writer a chance to improve communication skills. Communication of ideas is an extremely valuable tool for an engineer. Engineers must convey the essence of their design to people of many different technical backgrounds over the life cycle of a project. This assignment also helps students identify as an engineer and provides a structural engineering related activity to add to their resume.  In a survey of hiring managers, 100% rated a student resume with RePicture Program experience higher than one without it

View the lesson plan here, or find it on the Educator Forum under File Sharing.