Conference Session

Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Construction Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andre Lucena MA, NAIT; Don Mah P.Eng., Northern Alberta Institute of Technology; Faisal Arain, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)

Tagged Divisions

Construction

the technology. The multidisciplinarynature of BIM training makes it a natural fit for a polytechnic institution where all expertisecould be brought together to train professionals with BIM expertise for industry. A polytechnic institution attracts a diverse group of life-long learners through a practical,hands-on, and outcomes-based approach to education [20]. For training professionals in the BIMdomain with the appropriate skillset that the industry needs, an institution has to be a hub of thetechnical and soft-skills that are required. As an emerging academic discipline, BIM is an area where industry needs skilledprofessionals at both provincial and national levels; and the needs are expected to grow in thefuture. The context

Conference Session

Teaching the Business Side of Construction

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suat Gunhan, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Construction

business. In this business you are hired for your technical skills, fired for your lack of people skills and promoted for your management skills”.There is no specific undergraduate course dedicated to business development at theConstruction Science Program at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The author makesall the efforts to integrate leadership, business development and other soft skill topics to corecourses.The paper covers the integration of business development topic to the Project Managementcourse. It highlights the scope of the course content. The perception of the students towardsbusiness development was tested with a pre-survey questionnaire before the instruction of thetopic. The same survey questionnaire was conducted