Please prepare a paper that addresses any aspect of prestressed concrete structures. The paper must be 8-12 typed pages long (double-spaced) excluding the tables and graphs. In selecting the topic, you may wish to review the Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Journal.

In addition, each year, the PCI puts out an announcement for its Graduate Student Fellowship program. In that announcement, the industry as a whole lists a number of topics that are of interest to them. You can see a copy of the announcement by clicking here. This is a good source of topics to investigate. Some of you may wish to apply for this Fellowship which can support your research in graduate school.

Your focus on writing this paper should not be on developing anything new. I would like you to find a topic that interests you, read a few articles about it and summarize these findings. The purpose is to extend your knowledge in one aspect of P/C structures beyond what the course lectures cover.

The paper must include at least 5 references. The deadline for a 1-2 page abstract of the paper is due no later than Thursday March 6th. You must list all the references you plan to use in the abstract and make sure that at that time those references are available to you so that your writing will not be delayed. I will return your abstract back to you before the beginning of Spring Break. The final term paper is due no later than Tuesday April 29th.