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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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University, Prescott campus, and inpart because this course is both writing intensive and presentation intensive and students couldbenefit from supplementary COM instruction. Moreover, it later became apparent that due to thedemanding nature of this course, students are often stressed and this stress can lead tointerpersonal conflicts between team members. It was thus argued that students could benefitfrom supplementary COM instruction in conflict negotiation and resolution. By inviting a COMinstructor into the senior design course, COM support could be deeply embedded in the students'capstone experience, providing timely instruction just before graduation. In order to maximizethe COM instructor's understanding of the engineering students' needs