Weaver-Rosen, J., & Corleto, C. R., & Balawi, S., & Mohiuddin, M. W., & Tsenn, J. (2025, March), WORKSHOP: Conflict Management for Undergraduate Engineering Students  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference, Arlington, TX, Texas. https://peer.asee.org/55092

\bibitem{asee_peer_55092}
  Weaver-Rosen, J., \& Corleto, C. R., \& Balawi, S., \& Mohiuddin, M. W., \& Tsenn, J. (2025, March), \emph{WORKSHOP: Conflict Management for Undergraduate Engineering Students}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference, Arlington, TX, Texas.
  https://peer.asee.org/55092

Jonathan Weaver-Rosen, Carlos R. Corleto P.E., Shadi Balawi, Mohammad Waqar Mohiuddin, and Joanna Tsenn.  "WORKSHOP: Conflict Management for Undergraduate Engineering Students".  2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference, Arlington, TX, Texas, 2025, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/55092 Internet.  26 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_55092}
  Jonathan Weaver-Rosen, Carlos R. Corleto P.E., Shadi Balawi, Mohammad Waqar Mohiuddin, and Joanna Tsenn.
  "WORKSHOP: Conflict Management for Undergraduate Engineering Students".
  \emph{2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference, Arlington, TX, Texas, 2025, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/55092 Internet.  26 Apr, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The ability to work effectively in teams is important to the success of engineering projects. In many collegiate engineering programs, students are expected to work in teams throughout the curriculum starting as freshman and culminating in their senior capstone design project. However, the focus on technical knowledge and skills often means that students are not formally taught best practices for teamwork. Instead, students are expected to develop these skills in situ through team projects. This approach does not benefit all students as some experience dysfunctional teams without learning how teams are supposed to work. These students may enter the workforce without effective teamwork skills and with a negative attitude towards teamwork. Therefore, the “Undergraduates Improving Teamwork Skills” (UNITES) team has developed three teaching modules to help students develop practical teamwork skills in their undergraduate curriculum.
 
The three UNITES training modules are aimed at helping students develop practical teamwork skills in their sophomore, junior, and senior years. Each module focuses on a different teamwork aspect and is taught during one class lecture. Module 1 is taught in a sophomore-level course and focuses on the stages of team development and setting expectations through a team charter. Module 2, taught in a junior-level course, addresses the importance of effective communication and awareness of different working styles for team success. Module 3, taught in a senior-level course, addresses understanding and managing team conflicts. The implementation at Texas A&M University also involves assessment and student feedback, including short reflection surveys about students’ learning experience in each module and post-project surveys to evaluate and understand team experiences.  

This workshop aims to introduce the UNITES project, share its implementation to date, and conduct an active learning demonstration of Module 3, which is taught in a workshop-style format in the classroom. Like the students, workshop participants will start by roleplaying a conflict with healthy and unhealthy aspects. Participants will test their knowledge of the Thomas-Kilmann conflict mode instrument and watch a video on identifying unhealthy conflict and getting the conversation started with the STATE method for having crucial conversations. Finally, participants will reflect on the roleplaying conflict and complete the Dutch test for conflict handling. Participants will discuss their results and complete a short reflection activity. The workshop will close with a discussion of the UNITES project to obtain feedback to improve the project and how it may be implemented in the participants’ engineering curricula.
AU  - Jonathan Weaver-Rosen
AU  - Carlos R. Corleto P.E.
AU  - Shadi Balawi
AU  - Mohammad Waqar Mohiuddin
AU  - Joanna Tsenn
CY  - Arlington, TX, Texas
DA  - 2025/03/09
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - WORKSHOP: Conflict Management for Undergraduate Engineering Students
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