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Teaching
Engineering to Teams: Improving Team Performance
Objectives
This workshop provides:
- Information
on teams, team building, and group dynamics,
- Proven
methods and resource materials for teaching engineering teams,
- Techniques
for selecting, managing, and evaluating teams, and
- A
forum for participants to exchange information and experiences
on teaching engineering teams.
Who
Should Attend?
Typical profiles of faculty attending this workshop include:
- Faculty
desiring information on how to improve team performance.
- Faculty
with a desire to include cooperative team learning in the classroom
experience.
- Administrators
desiring additional information on the team experience.
- Experienced
engineering faculty seeking additions to their current bag of
team teaching tricks.
- New
faculty transitioning from industry to education desiring a better
understanding of the college age student in the team environment.
Topics
Forming Teams- Organizational Behavior; Types of Teams; Team
Functions; Co-operative Learning; Understanding Needs and Work Styles;
Learning Styles.
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Managing
Teams - Management Styles; Laissez-Faire; Participative; Authoritarian;
Five Essential Coaching Skills; Conflict Resolution; Self-Managed
Teams.
Evaluating
Teams - Individual Efforts; Team Efforts; Peer Evaluations;
Instructor Evaluations; Personal Assessment.
Personality
Type - Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Test; Type and Learning Styles;
and Group Dynamics; and Management Styles; and Problem Solving;
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Gender/Cultural
Effects - Valuing Diversity; Perceived Status/Team Hierarchy;
Perceived Male/Female Roles; Communication; Leadership Style; Learning.
Team
Building - Steps in Team Building; Four Styles of Team Players;
Six Factors for an Effective Team; Twelve Characteristics of an
Effective Team.
Team
Similarities/Differences - In First Year Courses; Engineering
Science Courses; Capstone Design Courses; Analysis/Design/Laboratory
Teams.
Assessment
of Team Work- Engineering Log Books; Progress Reports; Portfolios;
Video Recording/Review; Written and Oral Reports.
Workshop
Exercises - Diversity Assessment; Building Bridges; Communications;
Individual Participation Levels in Team Efforts; Team Member Roles;
Control of the Team Effort.
Format
Participants are encouraged in this two-day workshop to bring
and share cooperative learning experiences. Participants actively
participate in team activities during the workshop sessions.
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