Overview

Motivation

Fragmentation is a result of divergence in curricula and specialization.

Teamwork is a business, academic, and governmental concern.

Teamwork:

• is needed
• is hard to teach
• is possible to teach

The Computer Integrated A/E/C course takes a team approach to building design.

Hypothesis

Education is a key to improved communication among A/E/C professionals.

This can be achieved by exposing multidisciplinary teams of architecture, engineering, and construction students to:

• a holistic view of the A/E/C industry,
• hands-on expererience with emerging technologies which support collaborative and concurrent teamwork, and
• issues of technology impact on organization behavior and performance.

Objectives

Develop a methodology and environment for team approach to A/E/C design.

Imcrease the number of students who understand:

• the A/E/C global view, cross-disciplinary impacts and integration issues,
• the use of collaboration technologies,
• team dynamics and collaborative work,
• impact of collaboration technologies on organization performance.

Deliverables

• An exciting course for A/E/C students
• Development, implementation, testing, calibration, and dissemination of proposed course model
• Structured course & lab model
• Partial draft of:
  • Course notes,
  • Set of structured computer lab exercises,
  • Requirements for building projects.