ELECTRICAL STRUCTURAL-ENGINEERING FINITE-ELEMENT MODELING EDUCATION

The present paper is meant to focus the attention on a new avenue in finite element engineering education. Although there are now many research papers in the literature that describe the educational process of finite element modelling for a specific engineering discipline, mainly structural engineering, no multi-disciplinary finite element modelling education paper has appeared to date. In fact, the educational process by which engineers are trained has not adjusted to the changes in engineering practice that have occurred as a result of the increased use of multi-disciplinary finite element engineering analysis. This summarizes the need for the present paper. In order to introduce the basic concepts of the electrical-structural finite element modelling education, this paper concentrates on the equivalent relationships between basic structural and electrical engineering education utilizing finite element analysis. Consequently, basic electrical and structural engineering principles and finite element analysis are integrated in one educational procedure. The present paper suggests the inclusion of the proposed educational procedure into the modelling component of engineering education.