Resumen de Exploring the cognitive structure and quality elements: building information modeling education in civil engineering and management
Jingxiao Zhang, Haiyan Xie, Hui Li
Undergraduate education in Building Information Modeling (BIM) area for Civil Engineering and Management (CEM)majors cultivates the students’ abilities to handle the embedded context constraints, parametric modeling, and thecorresponding education guidelines recommended by the assessment associations and agencies. This study focuses on theexpected cognitive structure and the training contents of BIM education. The objective of this research is to design,implement, and adjust the subject areas of BIM courses to prepare students for the skills expected by job market. Theauthors studied the overlap of the scopes between undergraduate BIM education and the job market expectations on theskill structure of BIM abilities. The authors also reviewed the 2013 China Civil Engineering and Management Under-graduate Education Guideline (2013 CCEMUEG). Particularly, the authors developed the BIM cognitive structureconcept and the unique, BIM-embedded, education knowledge tree in CEM major. To design the training contents, theauthors adopted the Quality-Function-Development (QFD) house concept and its relationship principles, designed theknowledge units and knowledge points of 2013 CCEMUEG with the different corresponding encodings, constructed apath between BIM ability structure and CEM education, and performed the feasibility study of the implementationscheme. The research results include the blueprint of curriculum development and the knowledge framework showing thecomparison of characteristics between BIM and 2013 CCEMUEG knowledge units and knowledge points. In conclusion,the research suggests that BIM education in CEM could be implemented in the whole undergraduate learning process,representing the life-span of construction/building projects. This research shines light on BIM education in CEM. Itsanalysis tool and knowledge tree will be a powerful revelation for the pedagogical design of BIM in undergraduateeducation.
