Abstract
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.
Highlights
Building information modeling (BIM) is defined in terms of a 3D intelligent virtual model, collaborative process, or software application [1,2]
Different professionals from the technical project fields are involved in the building life-cycle, which makes building information modeling (BIM) highly complex and requires the involvement of multiple disciplines that can interact in a natural way in a BIM environment [4]
If we compare the values obtained for academic courses in which BIM has been used, this improvement is greater for all the degrees in which the rates of students using BIM increased
Summary
Building information modeling (BIM) is defined in terms of a 3D intelligent virtual model, collaborative process, or software application [1,2]. The National Building Information Model Standard (NBIMS) defines BIM as “a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. As such, it serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility, forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle from inception onward”, which is similar to the scope of industrial engineering [3]. VDC allows the user to distinguish between two environments, one based on a virtual design and optimization and the other on physical materialization. These environments interact to achieve the project objectives. VDC allows users to find parallels between current product-process concepts and implementation in industrial engineering
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