Collaborative Research: Lifting the Barriers: Understanding and Enhancing Approaches to Teaching Communication and Teamwork Among Engineering Faculty

这个工程教育研究项目调查了教师对沟通和团队合作的看法，并将这些看法与学生的看法进行了比较。研究的重点是首先阐明教师和学生对沟通和团队合作的看法，然后调查教师和学生信念的一致性，最后研究改变教师信念的干预措施。该研究将着眼于三个工程领域（土木，机械和工业）的这些信念，以最大限度地影响学生的学习。这项研究将在五所合作学校进行，使研究成果更容易转移。这个项目可以对团队合作和沟通的教学方式产生广泛的影响，因为它将认识论（关于什么是知识和认知的理论）的研究与实践联系起来。这个项目的一个非常重要的成果，如果成功的话，将改变教师的教学方式和学生学习团队合作和沟通的关键专业技能的方式。该项目的目标研究地点代表不同的学生群体，以帮助确保研究结果可以在广泛的大学范围内使用。

This engineering education research project investigates faculty beliefs about communication and teamwork, and compares these beliefs to students' beliefs. The research focuses on first elucidating what faculty and students believe about communication and teamwork, then investigating the alignment of faculty and students beliefs, and finally studying interventions that transform faculty beliefs. The study will look at these beliefs in three engineering fields (civil, mechanical, and industrial) in order to maximize the impact on student learning. The research will occur at five partner schools, making research results more transferable. The project can have broad impact on how teamwork and communication are taught since it bridges research on epistemology (the theory of what is knowledge and knowing) to practice. A very important outcome of this project, if successful, is changing how faculty teach and students learn the key professional skills of teamwork and communication. The project has targeted research sites to represent diverse populations of students to help ensure that the results can be used across a broad spectrum of universities.