A course on the advanced analysis and design of structural elements for students looking towards a career in Structural Engineering. The course covers: design of compression members, effective lengths of columns, design of plate girders (local buckling in shear, combined shear and bending, intermediate transverse stiffeners, web crippling – buckling and yield limit state) design by buckling analysis, design of portal frames, behaviour and design of beam-columns, connection design, plastic design (beams, simple frames), introduction to composite steel-concrete structures, elastic and rigid plastic analysis of composite beams, composite columns, composite connections, introduction to structural fire engineering.