Students’ Final Projects: An Opportunity to Link Research and Teaching

Pereira, Dolores; Neves, Luís

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“…The FPD course aims to specialize the student in an engineering field. Different studies propose guiding FPD in a field of engineering specialization with good results [47][48][49][50][51]. Some authors propose the implementation of FPD with collaborating students [48,52,53], but not in the way in which it is proposed in this work within a BIM environment.…”

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Academic Proposal for Heritage Intervention in a BIM Environment for a 19th Century Flour Factory

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The implementation of building information modeling (BIM) has become a reality worldwide, not only because of the advantages it offers, but also because of the obligatory nature of its use in construction and civil engineering projects in various countries around the world. An intervention project on an industrial heritage property requires a methodology that considers the condition of the building over time and its value for new use. The advantages of working with a precise 3D model that integrates engineering data in a collaborative work environment makes BIM and heritage BIM (HBIM) very useful tools in a project whose objective is the recovery of an industrial heritage real estate property. This work is part of the academic implementation of BIM in university technical education centers and aims to establish a methodology for shared and collaborative group work in a BIM environment through a Spanish industrial heritage case study of a flour factory dating to 1865. A rigorous historical study and the elaboration of a central BIM model loaded with real content on the industrial complex have allowed the immersion of the students into the BIM methodology, as well as the generation of a value proposition for the exploitation of the factory.

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“…In the new, adapted system, which started in Salamanca in 2010, a minimum of 12-ECTS credits project is now compulsory for all Spanish university degrees. In non-adapted degrees, engineering geology studies had a duration of five years, but this has been reduced to four years with the new Bologna system [ 11 ].…”

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“…Engineering geology is the application of geological principles to civil and mining engineering (amongst others). Architecture and engineering studies in Spain were the only degrees that demanded a final year project to complete the degree course [ 10 , 11 ]. However, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) introduced some changes in student curricula for the Bologna-adapted system, and one of these changes is related to the completion of a final project for all university degrees [ 11 ].…”

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“…Architecture and engineering studies in Spain were the only degrees that demanded a final year project to complete the degree course [ 10 , 11 ]. However, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) introduced some changes in student curricula for the Bologna-adapted system, and one of these changes is related to the completion of a final project for all university degrees [ 11 ]. This final project can be defined as an assignment to be completed by students during the last academic year of their degree courses ( i.e.…”

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“…This final project can be defined as an assignment to be completed by students during the last academic year of their degree courses ( i.e. , in the fourth year of the Bologna-adapted system), and its purpose is to assess students’ general competencies in the subjects of the degree course [ 11 ]. The final project must carry between 6 and 30 ECTS credits (ECTS refers to the European Credit Transfer System, the standard system for comparing the academic achievement and performance of students in higher education across the European Union).…”

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Students’ Final Projects: An Opportunity to Link Research and Teaching

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Academic Proposal for Heritage Intervention in a BIM Environment for a 19th Century Flour Factory

Academic Proposal for Heritage Intervention in a BIM Environment for a 19th Century Flour Factory

Improving Female Participation in Professional Engineering Geology to Bring New Perspectives to Ethics in the Geosciences

Braiding history, inquiry, and model-based learning: A collection of open-source historical case studies for teaching both geology content and the nature of science

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