Análise das competências BIM dos alunos egressos do Curso de Engenharia Civil da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

The architecture, engineering and construction industry (AEC), in general, is undergoing transformations and advances in terms of the methodologies used in the different phases of a building's useful life. The increase in demand for BIM in companies through various implementation strategies leads to a shortage of professionals qualified with BIM skills (SACKS; BARACK, 2010). Also according to Sacks and Barack, unless BIM is introduced fundamentally in the curriculum of engineering courses, graduated civil engineers will go to the job market with a lack of fundamental skills for an advanced industry. In these circumstances, we can perceive an increasingly demanding market when it comes to the skills of a professional who works with BIM. BIM skills are divided into three main areas: managerial, administrative and functional, covering topics such as leadership and strategic planning, finance and management of workflows and teams (SUCCAR; SHER, 2014). The present study addresses the following question: ‘In the perception of the graduates of the Civil Engineering course of a given University, were their skills related to BIM sufficiently developed during the undergraduate period?’. This question was brought by the Integrated Engineering Projects Office (EPE) , an extension project of the Federal University of Ceará which has the purpose of bringing together both the BIM methodology and the academic community. In order to select the most relevant skills for the BIM professional to be addressed in the research, a vast bibliographic review was carried out in Pedagogical Plans, Books, Articles, Journals and competency models developed by AEC companies.