Díaz, B., & Delgado, C., & Han, K. (2022, August), BIM: A Bridge to Promote Industry-Academic Partnership in Construction Engineering  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40995

\bibitem{asee_peer_40995}
  Díaz, B., \& Delgado, C., \& Han, K. (2022, August), \emph{BIM: A Bridge to Promote Industry-Academic Partnership in Construction Engineering}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40995

Brayan Díaz, Cesar Delgado, and Kevin Han.  "BIM: A Bridge to Promote Industry-Academic Partnership in Construction Engineering".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40995 Internet.  23 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_40995}
  Brayan Díaz, Cesar Delgado, and Kevin Han.
  "BIM: A Bridge to Promote Industry-Academic Partnership in Construction Engineering".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40995 Internet.  23 Apr, 2024

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AB  - This article reports on student perceptions of an innovative graduate construction engineering course using BIM and industry-academic collaboration with extensive construction site internships. The course, Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Construction, was designed and implemented to help students develop deep BIM learning and allow them to apply this software in real engineering companies. The students were immersed in construction companies, as interns on construction sites. Our research goals were to study the students’ learning and any impacts on the companies’ practices; in particular, how new communication skills, tools, symbols, concepts, and procedures disseminated in both directions. Open-ended survey responses from the years 2017, 2018, and 2019 were analyzed using the constant comparison method to allow themes to emerge from the data. The analysis of these data shows 1) The course evaluation survey was effective in capturing the opinion of the students about key aspects of the work-integrated learning (WIL) experience; 2) Recommendations made by some students were actually implemented by companies; 3) The students find a clear connection and opportunity to complement the learning objectives of the course with work in companies; 4) The WIL experience required students to dedicate more hours per week to the subject than for regular classes; 5) Some barriers hinder the implementation of WIL experiences. The curricular integration of work experiences appears to effectively support the development of students into highly skilled construction engineers. This paper extends the knowledge base on WIL by identifying how students develop as brokers mediating the academic and professional communities, and tracing the bidirectional flow of information, concepts, procedures, and materials between the academic and professional communities. 
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