BIM for Design Coordination: A Virtual Design and Construction Guide for Designers, General Contractors, and MEP Subcontractors

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.

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This chapter describes the experience and lessons learned from a University of Texas at Austin course on building information modeling (BIM) designed to educate next-generation architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals to understand BIM and use an existing building information model in plan execution for a building construction project. It introduces the course organization and deployed educational modules, and presents lessons learned to date from the teaching experience. BIM is cross-listed with both graduate and undergraduate-level codes. BIM has been gaining wide acceptance and recognition, as AEC professionals face a new transition from computer-aided design to BIM. The chapter discusses the detailed course design and instructional approaches. It also discusses the statement of alignment of an example module on design coordination, lecture overview, hands-on sessions descriptions, mock design coordination description, and assignment overview. Project-based learning provides students with real-world problems and active learning experiences by encouraging self-directed learning and critical thinking throughout the course.

Leite, Fernanda. “BIM Teaching Considerations.” BIM for Design Coordination: A Virtual Design and Construction Guide for Designers, General Contractors, and MEP Subcontractors, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2020, pp. 129–143.