Work in progress: How building informational modeling may unify IT in the civil engineering curriculum

IT in the civil engineering curriculum is often fragmented into courses that emphasize either design tools (e.g., CAD), or packages for analysis, planning and modeling. Graduating students often report a lack of coherence in the IT tools used in their courses and a distinctive gap in their junior years where technology skills are under-used or forgotten. Building information modeling (BIM) may offer the opportunity to unify disparate...