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

该工程教育事业项目支持工科学生在促进理论和团队技能教育方面的研究。这项研究的一个附带成果是建立和评估一个专家系统(虚拟主持人)，以促进团队发展和业绩。此虚拟辅导员可用于模拟专家辅导员与工程学生团队在一起工作时的行为。根据之前的数据，PI将开发一个实用的工具，帮助工程专业的学生学习团队技能，同时推进团队动力和促进方面的研究。作为一种研究工具，它将提供机会来测试关于团队功能和促进的理论，特别是在大量团队中。此外，使用专家系统作为观察学习团队技能的模型具有广泛应用的潜力，并对提高工程团队技能的学习具有重大影响。

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.