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Frank Campisino

AE 481W/482 Course Reflection:
BIM Thesis offers a great opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team in a collaborative manner. This project is the first opportunity to work together again after the fourth year curriculum split. This allows for the teams to learn from each other through the design of a building project. That being said, I felt that the AEI competition project did not offer enough challenge or opportunities to learn from building professionals to be used as a senior year thesis project. BIM studio offered many learning opportunities by having industry professionals give lectures and advice with our projects. I thought that this would be carried over into BIM thesis however because of the AEI project's structure we missed out on these opportunities. Also, coming from BIM studio I felt that the lack of an architect on the project team was a missed learning opportunity. The fifth year thesis project is primarily an engineering project however missing an architect leads to an incomplete project team.

Overall I learned a lot from my classmates and working with the AE faculty. I would recommend any fourth year student to take BIM thesis if possible. This project is a unique opportunity that employers find impressive at job interviews.

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The Capstone Project Electronic Portfolio (CPEP) is a web‐based project and information center. It contains material produced for a year‐long Senior Thesis class. Its purpose, in addition to providing central storage of individual assignments, is to foster communication and collaboration between student, faculty consultant, course instructors, and industry consultants. This website is dedicated to the research and analysis conducted via guidelines provided by the Department of Architectural Engineering. For an explanation of this capstone design course and its requirements click here.

Note: While great efforts have been taken to provide accurate and complete information on the
pages of CPEP, please be aware that the information contained herewith is considered a work‐in‐
progress for this thesis project. Modifications and changes related to the original building designs and
construction methodologies for this senior thesis project are solely the interpretation of Christopher
Ankeny. Changes and discrepancies in no way imply that the original design contained errors or was
flawed. Differing assumptions, code references, requirements, and methodologies have been
incorporated into this thesis project; therefore, investigation results may vary from the original
design.