A Comparative Study of the Use of Building Information Modeling in Teaching Engineering Projects

Abstract

Industrial engineering has incorporated building information modeling (BIM) into its curriculum. This work is a comparative study of the teaching results of engineering projects with and without the use of BIM. This study reports the results of a BIM implementation for a basic engineering project subject in an industrial engineering school. The results were evaluated by surveying the opinions of teachers and students. The teacher evaluations were classified using the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) under certain and uncertain conditions. To uncover the possible relationship between students' overall satisfaction, the use of BIM, and criteria used for the teachers' evaluation, a factor analysis and multifactor analysis of variance (Multifactor-ANOVA) were performed. The teacher evaluation showed better results in courses with greater use of BIM. The results indicate that the use of BIM in the engineering project subject could improve the acquisition of the assessed skills and positively influence student satisfaction.