Intro IT in Building Management

IT i Civilingeniørspeciale i Byggeledelse/IT in Building Management.

Figure. What is really Information Technology?

Semester 6.	Projektering og udførelse (fælles). Se også http://it.civil.auc.dk/education/index.html Design and construction. See also http://it.civil.auc.dk/education/index.html
Semester 7.	Projekledelse Project Management
Semester 8.	Virksomhedens ledelsesystem Enterprise Management
Semester 9.	Projekt eller udlandsophold eller praktikophold eller European Masters Course, semester 1/ Project or foreign practice or European Masters Course, semester 1

The following dedicated IT courses are given

INDUSTRIEL SOFTWARE UDVIKLING (Kaj Jörgensen)
Placering:	7. semester
Omfang:	2 moduler
Formål:	At give forståelse for grundlæggende begreber, tekniker og metoder til udvikling av tidssvarende industriel software, for dermed at kunne deltage kvalificeret i udviklingsprojekter mht. opstilling af behov, gennemførelse af softwareudvikling, ressource estimering, m.v.
Indhold:	Introduktion, objekt-orienterede begreber og teknikker, konstruktion af objekt-orienteret software, anerkende udviklingsmetoder, datastrukturer og videnrepræsentation, eksempler på anvendelser.
Prøveform:	Mundtlig prøve baseret på en diskussion af 1-3 timers varighed pr. projektgruppe over et miniprojekt eller en opgavesamling. Bedømmes med "bestået"/"ikke bestået", under medvirken af en intern censor.

(ENGLISH version)
INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Placement:
Semester 7
Volume:
2 modules
Goal:
To mediate understanding of fundamental concepts, technologies and methods for development of industrial software to be able to participate in qualified development projects and requirements formulation, software development, resources estimation etc.
Content:
Introduction to object-oriented concepts and technologies, development of object oriented software, recognized development methods, data structures and knowledge representations, application examples.
Examination:
Oral test based on 1-3 hour discussions a group on a mini project or exercises collection. Assessed with the grade "passed" or "failed" with internal censor participation.

(ENGLISH version)
IT IN THE BUILDING PROCESS I - THE VIRTUAL BUILDING
Placement:
Semester 7
Volume:
2 modules
Goal:
To mediate knowledge about fundamental concepts, technologies and methods to analyse and develop models which describes a building, the building process and the digital society from design to application.
Content:
Knowledge representations in practice. Exisiting classification systems and meta classification methodologies.
Acquisition and storage of experiences data. Design and development of services for knowledge transfer. Integration of external product and regulation databases.
Introduction to conceptual modelling methods and languages.
Future structures of virtual building models.
Computer supported trading.
Learning organisations and cooperating enterprises.
Computer supported maintenance and facility management.
Citizen nets and the digital city.
Examination:
Oral test based on 1-3 hour discussions a group on a mini project or exercises collection. Assessed with the grade "passed" or "failed" with internal censor participation.

(ENGLISH version)
INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
Placement:
Semester 8
Volume:
2 modules
Goal:
To mediate understanding of concepts, technologies and methods for development of industry information systems to ba able to participate in qualified development projects with regard to requirements formulation, analyses, choice of support systems, standardisation and quality requirements, resources estimation etc.
Content:
Introduction, functional analyses, information analyses, information modelling, information system development methods, knowledge bases, management of development projects, application examples.
Examination:
Oral test based on 1-3 hour discussions a group on a mini project or exercises collection. Assessed with the grade "passed" or "failed" with internal censor participation.

(ENGLISH version)
IT IN THE BUILDING PROCESS I - IT TOOLS
Placement:
Semester 8
Volume:
2 modules
Goal:
To mediate understanding of methods and technologies for computer supported collaborative work, team work, graphical decicion support and multimedia human machine interface design, as well as mediation of knowledge about how the future services, systems, and infrastructures for information transfer (knowledge management) can be built and integrated.
Content:
Explaning Knowledge Management?
Methods and tools for undertaking change process analyses and implementations. Principles for meta structuring in web based structures, development of communication support services, knowledge access, case Based reasoning. and common work on digital models.
Principles and technologies for computer supported collaboration and competence cooperation.
Multimedia,MM, and Human Computer Interaction, HCI, history and development.
MM communication channels properties.
Interactive film tools.
Standards and protocols to support HCI and collaboration.
Virtual Reality. Virtual reality markup language - VRML, collaboraion in Virtual Reality environments, Web-database integration.
Design of Multimedia and HCI, Human Computer Interaction, tools. Principles, guide-lines, Contextual design, authoring tools, use of metaphores, story telling, decision support, ..) incremental prototyping,...)
Usability testing of HCI tools.
User models (intelligens profiles, languages, digital agents and agent cooperation,...)
properties of IT-tools for collaboration .
Formulation of IT-strategies.

Examination:
Oral test based on 1-3 hour discussions a group on a mini project or exercises collection. Assessed with the grade "passed" or "failed" with internal censor participation.

Per Christiansson