Wider vocational initiative for structural steelwork

The transformation of ESDEP, a conventionally produced set of teaching material for structural steelwork design to engineering students, into a multi-media system accessible by a much wider range of users is presented. The project has developed a means of translating the existing material efficiently into a computer-based system. This has involved the development of an authoring tool to facilitate capturing and amending existing text and illustrations. The text is imported directly in electronic format, and a range of word-processing features has been incorporated to enable necessary changes to the content, although the basic philosophy was to take fullest advantage of what was already available.