Teaching building information modeling as an integral part of freshman year civil engineering education

Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-38

  Sacks, R ^a   Barak, R ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Building information modeling (BIM); Engineering education; Three dimensional models

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE , ENGINEERING , AND CONSTRUCTIONS; BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING; BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM); CIVIL ENGINEERING CURRICULA; CIVIL ENGINEERS; COMPUTER-AIDED DRAWINGS; DESIGN COURSE; DESIGN INTENT; ENGINEERING ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING GRAPHICS; ENGINEERING INFORMATION; INTEGRAL PART; TECHNION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; UNIVERSITY EDUCATION;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CIVIL ENGINEERING; COLLEGE BUILDINGS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; MODELS; PERSONNEL; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STUDENTS; TEACHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 73949102330     PISSN: 10523928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000003     Document Type: Article

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