Conference Session

Engineering Management Division 1: The Practice of EMD

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lawrence M. Strenger, CATME; Behzad Beigpourian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Management

task conflict tended to have negative effects ongroups with routine tasks and positive impacts on teams with non-routine work [5]. Taskconflict’s impact on performance has also been found to be dependent upon how the conflict isaddressed and the levels of trust and cooperation within a group [16], [17]. The team’s purposeand the length of its lifetime can affect conflict and productivity’s relationship as well. In theirmeta-analysis, O’Neill and colleagues found relationship and process conflict to be mostdetrimental for organizational teams and least detrimental for laboratory teams; they also foundthat teams which have a larger lifetime are more negatively impacted by these forms of conflict[8]. The medium over which a group

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division 4: Teaching and Learning in Engineering Management

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jena Shafai Asgarpoor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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Engineering Management

, various experiential learning activities and assignments were integrated into theprogram to make it more engaging for both the instructors and the students, and to also overcomesome of the challenges that students faced in comprehending the material from a pure lecture-based instruction [3]. This paper discusses two types of experiential activities integrated into thecurriculum: four field trips and a project-based laboratory to practice Six Sigma DMAICmethodology.Field Trips Aligned with Course SequenceMcLoughlin asserts that for learning to occur, one must be engaged in the cognitive process tochallenge oneself. She states that field trips can be a value-adding activity if planned andexecuted properly by the instructor so that the students are