The best words I
would use to describe AE410 was remarkable and impactful if someone asks me in
the future about the course. The learning experience was great over the ten
weeks. The definition of intelligent building was explained very well. Also,
the topics of intelligent building were various. We talked about Artificial Intelligence,
BIM, 3D Printing, databases, sensors, and networks. Those topics define the
future technology not only for the building and construction industry but also
for manufacturing and other industries.
The experience
of building a database individually was the one I liked the most. Because I had
never designed a database, I started the draft database with no prior
knowledge. I was confused at the beginning and handed in an organized database.
After I got the comments from Professor. Mitchell, I realized what problems a
database should solve and how does a database work. I started to research for
guides about using Access that was the software I used. I watched through all
the basic steps building a simple database. Then I research for information of sensors
that I could use for my database. Basically, databases are libraries that
organize all different books. We are like the librarians who build a system to
easily store, organize and find the books. In the end, I did very well in the
final database assignment. This is an introduction for database and I still
have a lot to learn. However, the design experience was helpful and meaningful.
The lectures were
also helpful, but 3 hours were too long for AE410. A lot of information was
covered in every lecture. I usually was very concentrated for the first half of
classes. The knowledge I gained in the second half was significantly decreased
since it was a long class and evening class. If we have two lectures instead of
one lecture every week, the learning efficiency would be higher.
The blog post
was also a great tool for students to interact with each other. Reading through
other people’s posts I learned a topic from different perspectives. However, I
think bi-weekly blog posts would be better than weekly blog posts.
Comments
Comments
Andy Dinh
I had same
understanding about the course when I first signed up. I thought AE410 would be
all about smart buildings such as how to design a smart building and what are
the new technology used in smart buildings. After the first class, I realized
that the course was more abroad and expansive. It almost talked about every new
and leading-edge technology. I was so lucky to get to know all of them.
Ronald Park
Your reflection
is very similar with mine. Did you write your post based on my blog post? The
second, the third, and the last paragraphs were too similar with mine.
Joe Dressel
I like that you
talked about the guest speakers. I forgot to write about them in my blog post. Their
presentations were all great that I also learned different point of view from
the industry side. They were from big companies and gave us some big
suggestions for us seeking successful careers. There was even a BIM manager who
let me know there are many job positions for knowing and studying BIM.
