Exploring an Interdisciplinary BIM-Based Joint Capstone Course in Highway Engineering

Zhang, Jingxiao; Zhao, Chuandang; Li, Hui; Huijser, Henk; Skitmore, Martin

doi:10.1061/(asce)ei.2643-9115.0000017

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“…It is interesting to note that the use of BIM facilitates the generation of technical documentation and helps to better integrate visualizations and data into architectural, engineering, and construction projects [86,87]. These results were also found in studies of the implementation of BIM in project subjects of the industrial engineering degree [22,50], civil engineering with the implementation of BIM learning in an integrated project design [89], a project-based online course [90], collaborative multidisciplinary learning [43] and the implementation of BIM in a course in highway engineering [92].…”

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A Comparative Study of the Use of Building Information Modeling in Teaching Engineering Projects

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A Comparative Study of the Use of Building Information Modeling in Teaching Engineering Projects

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“…The majority of participants agreed (57%, n = 25), followed by strongly agree (31%, n = 25), neutral (8%, n = 6), and disagree (5%, n = 4). Interdisciplinary projects and teams have been found to be useful in capstones courses in other majors (Cooper et al., 2015; Fries et al., 2017; Solnosky et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020) and for graduate students in natural resources (Jiji et al., 2015). However, traditional curricula in natural resource‐related majors tend to be primarily focused on scientific content for that particular field, and often lack material from other disciplines that are involved in natural resources planning and processes (Berkson & Harrison, 2002).…”

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Skill development using interdisciplinary problem solving in a natural resources capstone course

Anderson

Hargiss

Norland

2022

Natural Sciences Education

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Postsecondary curriculum is designed to prepare students for their careers following graduation, which traditionally revolves around technical aspects of their respected career field. Capstone courses were introduced to help ease students’ transition from the university into their careers. However, little research containing empirical evidence exists on the effectiveness of capstone courses in natural resources. This study evaluated 6 yr of course graduates from an interdisciplinary problem‐solving capstone course in natural resources, seeking to understand the skills gained and what portions of the course were most useful in transitioning students to their future careers. Results show the course was able to enhance students’ writing, communication, job preparation, and teamwork skills. Students valued knowledge gained on soft skills, such as communication and teamwork, over technical skills specific to their major. Overall, the students valued the interdisciplinary problem solving nature of the course, as most natural resource issues are interdisciplinary. Areas that could be improved in this capstone model were focused on improving individual student's verbal communication and presentation skills. Information from this study is useful to colleges and universities considering and using capstone courses to determine skills that can be taught and to determine if using real world problems in an interdisciplinary setting in their courses would be beneficial.

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“…Schools can hire BIM modelers from companies as part-time teachers. A case study presents tests the course, evaluates the students' performance, and identifies improvements in software training, time schedule, technology connection, interoperability issues, as well as how BIM effects on teamwork [12]. There are several research describing objectives, methods and outcomes with regard to generating new knowledge in BIM oriented higher education in architectural design and studies.…”

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Exploration of Revit Software Aided Architectural Design Education Based on Computer BIM Technology

Qiang¹,

Badarch²

2022

AJCST

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The development of BIM technology is an amazing trend for the construction industry. The production capacity upgrade with a new technology has inevitably become one of the most important topics of the construction industry. Therefore, the further promotion and application of new computer technologies such as BIM technology have affected the Chinese construction industry to an unavoidable critical juncture. In this paper, we show the Revit softwarebased experiments, their results based on the college education level. At such a moment, the architectural design major of higher vocational colleges has undergone tremendous changes. The school's teaching goals are not consistent with the new development of the architectural design industry. In the paper, we present the current studies of the BIM based architectural education. We compared the types of applications such as CAD, SketchUp, Revit we use in education field. In this paper, we show that BIM experiment is the advanced technology, and everyone can work together to contribute to efficient transformation of the construction industry with computer BIM technology. We get BIM skill certificate as a result of the Revit software-based experiments and projects in the teaching. The paper presents the results of experiments, tests, performance, and BIM effects on trainings. In applying BIM in an education, a visualization tool is used to enrich the body of knowledge of BIM education.

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Exploring an Interdisciplinary BIM-Based Joint Capstone Course in Highway Engineering

Cited by 21 publications

References 21 publications

A Comparative Study of the Use of Building Information Modeling in Teaching Engineering Projects

A Comparative Study of the Use of Building Information Modeling in Teaching Engineering Projects

Skill development using interdisciplinary problem solving in a natural resources capstone course

Exploration of Revit Software Aided Architectural Design Education Based on Computer BIM Technology

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