Project-Based Learning

American Society of Engineering Education

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Fellow(s)
Fernanda Leite
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BIM for Design Coordination: A Virtual Design and Construction Guide for Designers, General Contractors, and MEP Subcontractors

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Fellow(s)
Fernanda Leite

PTF Fernanda Leite authored the academic text BIM for Design Coordination: A Virtual Design and Construction Guide for Designers, General Contractors, and MEP Subcontractors. Leite's book includes a chapter specifically about teaching Building Information Modeling (BIM) in college courses titled "BIM Teaching Considerations," which is directly related to the work done in her PTF Initiative.

View the chapter here, or read the summary below.

Journal of Architectural Engineering

Integrating an Architectural Engineering Undergraduate Program with Building Information Modeling (Journal of Architectural Engineering)

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Fellow(s)
Fernanda Leite

PTF Fernanda Leite co-authored this article in the Journal of Architectural Engineering. The article examines the integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) into an undergraduate Architectural Engineering course, which was a core component of Leite's PTF Initiative.

Read the complete paper here, or find the abstract below.

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Fernanda Leite

Alumni
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design
Project-Based Learning

Fernanda Leite is a Professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds the John A. Focht Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Civil Engineering. She is the past Chair of a University-wide Bridging Barriers research initiative called Planet Texas 2050. Her built environment research program sits at the interface of engineering and computing. She teaches courses on Building Information Modeling, Project Management and Economics, Construction Safety, and Sustainable Systems Engineering.

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Jade DeKinder

Alumni
Marketing Administration
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McCombs School of Business
Initiative Focus
Experiential Learning
Project-Based Learning
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Matthew Balhoff

Alumni
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design
Project-Based Learning

Matthew is a professor in the Hildebrand Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (PGE) Department. Matt’s work as a PTF includes a curriculum-wide design project that is presented to the students in their first petroleum engineering class, taught in the spring of their first year. In every PGE class they are assigned at least one homework assignment or project taken directly from the design project. The objective of this initiative is to use unique methods and tools to develop an integrated and synergistic program.

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