CAREER: Designing Effective Teams in the Engineering Classroom for the Enhancement of Learning

这一职业发展项目的研究目标是开发、测试和验证工程类课堂的有效团队模式。该模式的目标是促进课堂上的团队合作；在学习一门学科和学习如何在团队中工作时衡量个人成长；以及衡量团队合作效率。该项目教育部分的主要目标是重新设计工程管理课程；开发一个新的关于团体/团队动态原理的交叉列出的本科生/研究生课程；开发和实施关于应用该模式的教员培训讲习班；开发互动式网络培训模块，以提供有关各团队遇到的问题和问题的持续指导。为了响应雇主的请求，工程专业毕业生准备进行团队合作，并重新定义工程与技术认证委员会(ABET)的项目结果，工程课堂中融入了更多的团队活动。在她之前工作的基础上，PI制定了她的计划，分析工程课堂上团队合作的性质，制定一种评估团队合作的指标，并使用该指标来调查促进团队发展的方法。宾夕法尼亚州立大学、全国大学生发明家和创新者联盟(NCIIA)以及PI自己的内布拉斯加州-林肯大学将让他们的工程学学生收集数据。建议的模型是新颖的，因为它既关注个体，也关注团队对有效团队结构的掌握。这些活动将加强工程教育人员的能力，使学生充分准备好利用科学、数学、工程和技术方面的团队。

The research objective of this career-development project is to develop, test and validate a model of effective teaming for the engineering classroom. The goals of the model are to facilitate teamwork in the classroom; to measure individual growth when learning a subject and learning how to work in a team; and to measure teamwork effectiveness. The primary goal of the education component of the project is redesign engineering management courses; develop a new cross-listed undergraduate/graduate course on the principles of group/team dynamics; develop and implement faculty training workshops on the application of the model; and the development of interactive web training modules to provide ongoing tutorials on problems and issues encountered by teams. In response to a plea from employers for engineering graduates prepared to work in teams and redefined program outcomes from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), more teaming activities are being incorporated into the engineering classroom. To build on her previous work, the PI has developed her plan to analyze the nature of teamwork in the engineering classroom, develop a measure to assess teamwork and use that measure to investigate methods of promoting team development. Pennsylvania State University, the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) and the PI.s own University of Nebraska-Lincoln will make their engineering students available for data collection. The proposed model is novel because it will focus on both the individual.s and the team's mastery of effective teaming constructs. The activities will strengthen the ability of engineering educators to fully prepare students to utilize teams in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.