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Applying Aspects of Professional Settings to Student Teaming in an Engineering and Design Course

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Portland, Oregon

Publication Date

June 23, 2024

Start Date

June 23, 2024

End Date

July 12, 2024

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Innovative Approaches to Teaching & Developing Engineering Leadership

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

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Robert Benjamin Simon Georgia Institute of Technology

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Robert Simon serves as an Academic Professional for the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Georgia Tech. He contributes to our undergraduate Global Engineering Leadership Minor, as well as our new Innovation & Entrepreneurship track, by infusing leadership, innovation, and team effectiveness into our engineering curriculum. He co-instructs our Innovation & Entrepreneurship in CEE Systems course, and is a member of the instructional team for several CEE undergraduate courses.

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Lauren Stewart Georgia Institute of Technology

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Abstract

As group-based learning and team projects continue their recent surge in engineering education, there is still significant debate on effective pedagogies associated with teaching project teams. How student teams are formed and evaluated are key decisions instructors must make, all the while balancing important aspects such as team diversity, alignment with learning outcomes, and the quality of the team’s work. What is often missing from the literature around student teaming is the distinction between academic settings and the environments students will experience in professional settings. This omission is problematic when juxtaposed to the motivation behind much of educators' work: to better prepare engineering students for the profession of engineering. If classroom settings continue to be just that, students will continue to be ill-equipped for their transitions into the workforce. This paper tests a unique approach to student team formation, reflective journaling, and final grading by mimicking certain aspects of the professional setting in the classroom – especially as it relates to team formation, project management, and feedback. This work builds on a previous work-in-progress paper that merged design thinking, leadership, and engineering into a cohesive origami engineering course.

Simon, R. B., & Field, J., & Stewart, L. (2024, June), Applying Aspects of Professional Settings to Student Teaming in an Engineering and Design Course Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/46591

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