Group Cognition: Learning in Engineering Project Teams

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。卡内基梅隆大学的工程教育研究奖将开发新的分析方法来研究工程项目团队的学习。这些方法将基于群体认知研究的最新理论成果。具体的研究目标是创建分析工具，自动检测和标记组讨论中的学习事件的证据，并总结由一组创建的文件的不断发展的内容。 该项目还将创建可视化工具，集成和总结团队沟通，以跟踪共享解决方案的出现。研究结果将在技术会议上发表，并在专业期刊上发表。本研究的目的是通过开发工具来提高学生的团队合作能力，从而更好地为工程实践做好准备。这些技术预计将提高学生对工程的兴趣，并将增加完成工程学位并准备填补工程工作的人数。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This engineering education research award to Carnegie Mellon University will develop new analytical methods to study learning in engineering project teams. These methods will be based on the recent theoretical findings from the study of group cognition. The specific research objectives are to create analytic tools that automatically detect and tag evidence of learning events in group discussions and that summarize the evolving content of the documents created by a group. The project will also create visualization tools that integrate and summarize the team communication to track the emergence of a shared solution. The results will be presented at technical conferences and published in professional journals. The goal of this research is to better prepare students for the practice of engineering through developing tools to enhance team work skills. These techniques are expected to increase students' interest in engineering and will enhance the number who complete engineering degrees and are ready to fill engineering jobs.