Mohawk unveils 3D Visualization for the Built Environment micro-credential program - constructconnect.com - Daily Commercial News

After what its developer and its main teacher describes as, “many months of hard enactment and cautious planning,” Mohawk College successful Hamilton, Ont. is acceptable to unveil its 3D Visualization for the Built Environment micro-credential.

To beryllium taught by part-time prof and municipal zoning examiner Tage Crooks, the programme is designed to supply students with skills improvement successful BIM, 3D Rendering Tools, GIS, Digital Twins and Virtual Reality/3D printing applications for design, presentation, operation and ongoing operations and attraction of buildings and spaces.

According to the people contented description, “3D Visualization has revolutionized the mode buildings and spaces are designed, constructed, operated and maintained. Evaluating however and wherever to employment it efficiently and successfully is an emerging in-demand accomplishment set.”

“If a representation is worthy a 1000 words, 3D models and VR/AR is the adjacent measurement successful the architectural, engineering and construction,” says Crooks, a zoning examiner with the City of Mississauga.

Tentatively scheduled to commencement sometime successful the caller year, the 3D Visualization programme is simply a stacked micro-credential comprised of 5 idiosyncratic micro-credentials, says Janet Shuh, the college’s dean of continuing acquisition and world development.

Each of the 5 micro-credentials tin beryllium completed successful little than 12 weeks compared to the 1 to 2 years it usually takes continuing acquisition students to implicit stacked micro-credential programs, she says.

A part-time module subordinate of the college’s schoolhouse of engineering, exertion and aviation, Crooks was selected to make and present the programme due to the fact that of his acquisition successful BIM and nonrecreational expertise arsenic a municipal municipality planner, says Shuh.

Delivering the programme volition beryllium done a operation of asynchronous, oregon astatine the student’s ain pace, online learning supplemented by scheduled online learning. The 36-hour-equivalent for each people has been designed with “ultimate flexibility” successful which the students volition advancement done astatine their speed.

However, they volition beryllium fixed the accidental to link with the college’s manufacture adept facilitators for 1 hr per week sessions for astir 10 hours, she says.

In explaining the conception of micro-credentials, Shuh says they are “short-burst learning modules, whether idiosyncratic oregon stacked. They are flexible and tin beryllium undertaken to reskill into a caller vocation oregon up-skill with in-demand skills successful a existent job.”

In 2021, the assemblage began exploring and processing micro-credentials to respond to the needs of manufacture crossed a scope of sectors, including the construction, architectural, engineering and related professions. Those efforts included co-hosting a micro-credential forum successful concern with its acquisition partners and the City of Hamilton.

It present offers 22 antithetic micro-credentials successful a assortment of programs and much are successful development, though nary of those are specifically geared to the operation and related industries, she says.

Many post-secondary institutions successful Ontario, Canada and overseas are processing and delivering micro-credentials, says Shuh, noting assemblage colleges are good positioned to present this benignant of acquisition via their applied quality of assemblage learning, and adjacent relationships with manufacture and employers.