Abstract
The latest IT technology integration movements, such as building information modeling (BIM), have engendered changes in the technology and participatory organizations in the construction industry, which have resulted in process innovations and productivity gains. BIM lays the foundation for using a variety of new information that is not applicable to traditional construction methods. Construction companies are applying such information to various analyses, simulations, and learning and education projects to stimulate innovation. In Korea, however, since BIM was introduced in 2008, it has been used in various ways across diverse fields, but its contribution remains minimal. This is due to the inadequate competence level of BIM managers, who emerge from a system incapable of adequately educating BIM managers. In other words, the curriculum has not been able to impart the BIM skills necessary to accommodate the requirements of the industry. Only the most basic BIM modeling course is offered, and even such a course is dependent on external instructors. This creates a gap with the existing construction engineering educational curriculum. This study proposes a BIM-based construction engineering educational curriculum that has not been attempted before to overcome these limitations and generate a BIM workforce to cater to the industry.
Highlights
In the construction industry, a number of organizations collaborate and carry out projects, right from the initial structure to the final product
Unlike previous research studies that have added subjects related to Building information modeling (BIM) to an existing construction engineering educational program, this study aims to develop the entire curriculum of a department from scratch, including goals and objectives of the education, learning topics, composition of learning subjects, and transformation of evaluation methods
Unlike the process model, which relies on an experiential approach, the Tyler model is a representative example of the product model that is widely used in the development of science and technology curricula [40]
Summary
A number of organizations collaborate and carry out projects, right from the initial structure to the final product. In order to properly address these problems, a completely novel educational curriculum should be designed and developed This curriculum should integrate IT modelling software such as BIM with conventional construction-related subjects, and the students should be selected in accordance with the new change. It would be ideal if companies could participate in the new curriculum so that the students could be transformed into a project-based, learning-type (PBL) workforce who would be able to perform the practical jobs required in the industry upon graduation [7,10,39]. The developed construction IT curriculum is instituted in a Korean university and the detailed analysis results are presented in this paper
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