TY - GEN
T1 - A curriculum approach to deploying BIM in architectural engineering
AU - Solnosky, Ryan L.
AU - Parfitt, M. Kevin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ASCE.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In recent years, rapidly advancing new technologies and project delivery methods, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), have had a significant impact on the building industry. As a result, practitioners and academia have realized that educating future engineers on these topics is a necessity. To adopt these, proper course and curriculum structures need to be developed and tested. The focus of many efforts to date have been on the first topic, courses. BIM in particular has proven to provide positive opportunities to advance education of buildings at the course level but when expanded upon to an entire curriculum; its effects have seen limited study and less commonly adopted throughout departmental programs. This paper will describe the efforts that the Department of Architectural Engineering (AE) at Penn State University has taken to implement different levels of BIM via collaboration, integration and technology in different courses throughout the program. The discussion will first focus on the overall structure of the program and how they interrelate to one another. Then the efforts within each of the four disciplines: Construction, Lighting/Electrical, Mechanical, and Structural Engineering will be examined more closely.
AB - In recent years, rapidly advancing new technologies and project delivery methods, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), have had a significant impact on the building industry. As a result, practitioners and academia have realized that educating future engineers on these topics is a necessity. To adopt these, proper course and curriculum structures need to be developed and tested. The focus of many efforts to date have been on the first topic, courses. BIM in particular has proven to provide positive opportunities to advance education of buildings at the course level but when expanded upon to an entire curriculum; its effects have seen limited study and less commonly adopted throughout departmental programs. This paper will describe the efforts that the Department of Architectural Engineering (AE) at Penn State University has taken to implement different levels of BIM via collaboration, integration and technology in different courses throughout the program. The discussion will first focus on the overall structure of the program and how they interrelate to one another. Then the efforts within each of the four disciplines: Construction, Lighting/Electrical, Mechanical, and Structural Engineering will be examined more closely.
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784479070.057
DO - 10.1061/9780784479070.057
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84926431660
T3 - AEI 2015: Birth and Life of the Integrated Building - Proceedings of the AEI Conference 2015
SP - 651
EP - 662
BT - AEI 2015
A2 - Raebel, Christopher H.
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
T2 - Architectural Engineering National Conference 2015: Birth and Life of the Integrated Building, AEI 2015
Y2 - 24 March 2015 through 27 March 2015
ER -