Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

reviewers.While the EPICS program has strived to develop common tools, they have been implementedslightly differently by different advisors. Some advisors have tried to tie the expecteddeliverables to a formula to eliminate as much subjectivity as possible. One problem with that isthat these teams have begun to think about the formulas rather than meeting the customer’sneeds. A visible sign of this bias is in the projects the students design. In teams with formulas,there is a tendency to produce one or at most two semester projects because a deliverable to thecustomer factors in each semester. One of the important aspects of EPICS is that the curricularstructure allows for projects that are large scale and significance. Such projects often takemultiple