Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gouranga Banik, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

life learning (3.43). Technical and design understanding is important but not important asother soft skills. But for the experience contractors, ability to design a system, component orprocess (3.21) and analyze and interpret data (3.56) are important like other soft skills such ascommunication skill (4.02), ability to work in multidisciplinary team (3.68) and importance oflife-long learning (3.52).What is the role of information technology, both as a computing and communications tool and asa method of educational delivery? A demonstrated understanding that construction is affected byinformation technology was the most highly ranked outcome in the “knowledge of contemporaryissues” criterion. Unquestionably, informationtechnology impacts how