| authors |
QaQish, R. and Hanna, R. |
| year |
1997 |
| title |
A World-wide Questionnaire Survey on the Use of Computers in Architectural Education |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1997.x.c8o
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| source |
Challenges of the Future [15th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-3-0] Vienna (Austria) 17-20 September 1997 |
| summary |
The paper reports on a study which examines the impact on architectural education needs arising from the changes brought about by
the implications of CAD teaching/learning (CAI/CAL). The findings reflect the views of fifty-one (51) architecture schools through a
world-wide questionnaire survey conducted in mid 1996. The survey was structured to cover four continents represented by seven
countries, namely the USA, UK, Israel, Australia, Canada, Sweden and the Netherlands. Structurally the main findings of this study are
summarised under five areas, namely: 1) General Information, 2) Program of Study (curriculum) and CAD course, 3) CAD Laboratories:
Hardware, Software, 4) Departmental Current and Future Policies, 5) Multi-media and Virtual Reality. Principally, there were three main
objectives for using the computers survey. Firstly, to accommodate a prevalent comprehension of CAD integration into the curriculum of
architecture schools world wide. Secondly, to identify the main key factors that control the extent of association between CAD and
architectural curriculum. Thirdly, to identify common trends of CAD teaching in Architecture schools world-wide and across the seven
countries to establish whether there are any association between them. Several variables and factors that were found to have an
impact on AE were examined, namely: the response rate, the conventional methods users and the CAD methods users amongst
students, CAD course employment in the curriculum, age of CAD employment, the role of CAD in the curriculum, CAD training time in
the Curriculum, CAD laboratories/Hardware & Software, computing staff and technicians, department policies, Multi-Media (MM) and
Virtual-Reality (VR). The statistical analysis of the study revealed significant findings, one of which indicates that 35% of the total
population of students at the surveyed architecture schools are reported as being CAD users. Out of the 51 architecture schools who
participated in this survey, 47 have introduced CAD courses into the curriculum. The impact of CAD on the curriculum was noted to be
significant in several areas, namely: architectural design, architectural presentation, structural engineering, facilities management, thesis
project and urban design. The top five CAD packages found to be most highly used across universities were, namely, AutoCAD (46),
3DStudio (34), Microstation (23), Form Z (17), ArchiCAD (17). The findings of this study suggest some effective and efficient future
directions in adopting some form of effective CAD strategies in the curriculum of architecture. The study also serves as an evaluation
tool for computing teaching in the design studio and the curriculum. |
| keywords |
CAD Integration, Employment, Users and Effectiveness |
| series |
eCAADe |
| email |
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| more |
http://info.tuwien.ac.at/ecaade/proc/qaqish/qaqish.htm |
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 Strategy for Teaching CAAD: A Case Study at Applied Science University
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Applying Computer aided learning CAL Strategies in Computer aided Design CAD: A Case study of AEC Teaching at MSA
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QaQish, R. and Hanna, R. (1997)
Evaluating Computer aided learning CAL Strategies in Computer aided Design CAD
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QaQish, R. and Hanna, R. (1997)
The Impact of CAL strategies on CAD: A Case Study of the Effective Use of Computers in the Teaching of Architectural Design
, CAADRIA ‘97 Conference, Taiwan
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QaQish, R. and Shaeeb, A. (1996)
CAAD Metaphors in High Rise Building Design: A Case study of an ill-designed area in Glasgow-Scotland
, Open House International Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1
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QaQish, R. (1997)
CAL in CAD: Inter and Intra Departmental Management Learning in Architectural Learning
, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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