CAREER: Development and Evaluation of Portable, Computationally Intelligent Team Training

本工程教育事业计划支持工程学生的促进理论和团队技能教育的研究。该研究的副产品将是创建和评估专家系统（虚拟促进者），以促进团队发展和绩效。这个虚拟促进者可以用来模拟工程学生团队在一起工作时专家促进者的行为。根据以往的数据，PI将开发一个实用的工具，帮助工程专业学生学习团队技能，同时推进团队动态和促进的研究。作为一种研究工具，它将提供测试关于团队功能和促进的理论的机会，特别是在大量的团队中。此外，使用专家系统作为团队技能观察学习的模型具有广泛应用的潜力，并对提高学习工程团队技能产生重大影响。

This engineering education CAREER project supports research in facilitation theory and team skill education for engineering students. A by product of the study will be the creation and assessment of an expert system (virtual facilitator) to facilitate team development and performance. This virtual facilitator can be used to model the behaviors of an expert facilitator to engineering student teams as they are working together. Drawing on previous data, the PI will develop a practical tool that will help engineering students learn team skills while, at the same time, advancing research in team dynamics and facilitation. As a research tool, it will provide the opportunity to test theories about team function and facilitation, especially across large numbers of teams. Also the use of expert systems as a model for observational learning of teaming skills has the potential to be applied widely and with significant impact to improve learning engineering team skills.