Oswald Chong, Ph.D. University of Kansas, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering

 AutoCAD taught previously as a required course ◦ Faculty teaching AutoCAD retired in 2006 ◦ Good time to implement BIM ◦ Alumi requires department to teach BIM instead of AutoCAD

 Hard to secure a faculty who know how to teach BIM ◦ Adjunct faculty: Two part-time lecturers who are currently working in Kansas City are employed to teach BIM at Kansas  Financial Commitment ◦ Revit is donated by industry and the continuation of the software comes from a pool of money donated by alumni ◦ Some faculties who teach design courses are sent for training on Revit (the adjunct faculties taught the full- time faculties how to use them) ◦ Only the CEAE Dept. computers are equipped with Revit ◦ Internship at some companies which still use AutoCAD

 Students become highly employable  Software integration can be an issue  Difficult to find a full-time faculty to teach BIM (people with practical experience, don’t have Ph.D., and may not be able to do research and secure funding: 50% time for faculty is dedicated to research and securing of funding)  Time consuming: Replacement, bureaucratic process to get it approve, searching for the right faculty  Integrate into design courses: Rather difficult since all full-time faculties need to be trained

 Currently, no direct research work with BIM at Kansas, though 1-2 faculties are using BIM on part of their research  Funding sources can be an issue  Students still need some AutoCAD knowledge, but we thought they had enough from high school  KU Construction and Maintenance Dept. has not adopted BIM