A Comparative Study of the Use of Building Information Modeling in Teaching Engineering Projects

Alberto Sanchez-Lite; Cristina Gonzalez; Patricia Zulueta; Zita Sampaio

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3042662

IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

A Comparative Study of the Use of Building Information Modeling in Teaching Engineering Projects

Alberto Sanchez-Lite,
Cristina Gonzalez,
Patricia Zulueta,
Zita Sampaio

Affiliations

Alberto Sanchez-Lite: ORCiD; Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Graphic Expression in Engineering, Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Cristina Gonzalez: ORCiD; Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering, National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain
Patricia Zulueta: ORCiD; Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Graphic Expression in Engineering, Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Zita Sampaio: Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3042662
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8
pp. 220046 – 220057

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Industrial engineering has incorporated building information modeling (BIM) into its curriculum. This work is a comparative study of the teaching results of engineering projects with and without the use of BIM. This study reports the results of a BIM implementation for a basic engineering project subject in an industrial engineering school. The results were evaluated by surveying the opinions of teachers and students. The teacher evaluations were classified using the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) under certain and uncertain conditions. To uncover the possible relationship between students' overall satisfaction, the use of BIM, and criteria used for the teachers' evaluation, a factor analysis and multifactor analysis of variance (Multifactor-ANOVA) were performed. The teacher evaluation showed better results in courses with greater use of BIM. The results indicate that the use of BIM in the engineering project subject could improve the acquisition of the assessed skills and positively influence student satisfaction.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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