Throughout this course, students explored various topics regarding the intelligent buildings and the technological advancements to aid in the effectiveness of these structures. Along with the help of various programs such as Dynamo and Microsoft Access, students were allowed to get a better understanding of these topics by incorporating real-world programs into their classroom lives.
Something that resonated with me in this course was the topic of Additive Manufacturing in construction. The concept of planning and making the design process of the construction industry more environmentally conscious is something that always interested me. Now after this course, I have a better understanding of what that would entail. For the final project of this course, I studied and wrote about this topic - specifically the incorporation of additive manufacturing of concrete in the construction industry, and how this way of utilizing concrete in the construction process is more environmentally friendly than that of typical batch-work of concrete.
For my next co-op, I am working for a large construction company in Philadelphia. It will be a nice change of pace from my previous civil engineering co-op, and I am looking forward to learning a lot more about the industry and how it works on a corporate level. However, utilizing what I have learned in this course and seeing it in application for the first time in my professional career will be the ultimate take-away for me.
Another interesting topic of this course that I have not had much experience with before was the utilization of databases with construction. Throughout my Drexel career, I only took one class before this one where I got to learn about information technology with databases. However, AE410 did a better job teaching it to engineering students, as the previous course was more general. Learning about these databases in relation to something that I would work for in the future made it that much more interesting to me.
Comment to Douha:
Douha,
I think it is very interested that you were able to incorporate things learned in this class to your senior design project. That is something I look forward to in my senior year. Utilizing the concepts and the tools readily available to us engineering students is so important in an educational career.
Reece
Comment to Madeleine:
Madeleine,
I also agree that this course could have been beneficial to us earlier on in our Drexel career. I was not exposed to Revit before this course, and I feel as if that skill is necessary to all engineering students. Some employers have not considered me for co-op due to my lack of BIM knowledge.
Reece
Comment to Jake:
Jake,
Your comment on our multiple guest speakers and how they were able to give us insight about the topics learned in this course used in the real world resonated with me. I think it is always nice to have students talk to Drexel graduates, as that will be us in just a few years. Also, I too believe the incorporation of architecture to the topics of this course could have been beneficial as well. Nice post!
Reece
4 comments:
Reece,
I hope you have a meaningful time at your next co-op and learn more about additive manufacturing of concrete. I am also working on concrete for my masters research studies and am optimistic that the future will use concrete completely differently than it does currently. I also think that database usage is very important in society, I was unaware how many databases are necessary to run the world and it is hundreds of thousands, and the way to make them was foreign to me until this class
Reece,
First I would like to wish you all the best on your next co-op!
We have something in common where we both had the same general background on database. The database assignment was fun. It taught me in-depth how it works and I'm glad that you thought the same.
In your co-op try to incorporate what you have got from this course especially what the guest speakers told us, and you will feel that everything is realistic and make more sense.
Reece, I am glad to hear you will be changing the pace of your coop work; I know the feeling of having an uneventful coop, so I also switched it up upon my second coop to gain a broader understanding of my major and engineering as a whole. I agree with you that this course did an exceptional job in aiding the understanding of Databases, and that knowledge is beneficial to anyone in any field. Since you touched on environmental awareness and concrete, I was reading on a study that aspires to implement living concrete, utilizing biological aspects that will allow for self-healing material. Hopefully technology such as this will get you thinking of ideas for the future of environmentally friendly construction.
Reece,
It is awesome that you will be getting the opportunity to utilize what you learned in class in real-life situations over co-op. I hope that helps you to widen your interests and learn more about this industry in the upcoming years. I agree with you on that this course really brought current technology into the classroom with an extensive perspective, and I learned a lot from it as well. Hopefully as we progress into a more environmentally conscious period, concepts like additive manufacturing will become more commonplace.
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