Claesson, H., & Hodge, R., & Lee, E., & Benning, J., & Gray, D. (2022, August), Student Perception of Virtual Collaboration Environments on Teaming Success in an Online Project-Based First-Year Engineering Design Course  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40720

\bibitem{asee_peer_40720}
  Claesson, H., \& Hodge, R., \& Lee, E., \& Benning, J., \& Gray, D. (2022, August), \emph{Student Perception of Virtual Collaboration Environments on Teaming Success in an Online Project-Based First-Year Engineering Design Course}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40720

Henry Claesson, Robert Hodge, Eunsil Lee, Jennifer Benning, and David Gray.  "Student Perception of Virtual Collaboration Environments on Teaming Success in an Online Project-Based First-Year Engineering Design Course".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40720 Internet.  15 Jun, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_40720}
  Henry Claesson, Robert Hodge, Eunsil Lee, Jennifer Benning, and David Gray.
  "Student Perception of Virtual Collaboration Environments on Teaming Success in an Online Project-Based First-Year Engineering Design Course".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40720 Internet.  15 Jun, 2025

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AB  - This undergraduate research project aims to explore the impacts of virtual collaboration environments (VCE) on first year engineering students, focusing on their experiences in teaming and collaboration in the context of an online, first-year engineering design course. The field of engineering education has made significant efforts to determine more effective strategies to teach students the engineering design process and to foster successful teaming and collaboration. Previous literature has investigated the roles that VCEs play in engineering team collaborations both in education and industry. However, most studies have focused on understanding the qualities of effective virtual teams and the students' perceived success of the VCE. There is a scarcity of research that has investigated how VCEs scaffold students’ collaborative teamwork in an engineering design course where teaming plays an essential role in student learning. This study fills this gap by investigating the impacts of using a VCE, i.e., Microsoft Teams (MS Teams), on a first-year students’ teaming and collaboration experiences in an online, semester-long engineering design course.
This research project was conducted by two undergraduate engineering students and two first-year engineering design course instructors. A survey consisting of fifteen questions on a Likert scale, focusing on three predetermined pillars of successful collaboration (e.g., file sharing, communication, and task management) was developed by the research team. The survey was distributed to 406 students in six sections of an engineering design course at a suburban mid-Atlantic institution during the Spring semester of 2021, with all sections of the class offered in a synchronous online only setting. Students completed the survey at the beginning of the semester, then split into control and experimental groups. The students in the control group chose their own collaboration tool similar to students in years past, and the students in the experimental group were required to use MS Teams as their VCE. After the semester, the same survey was re-distributed to students to gather data about the change in students' perceived success in teaming throughout the project. The collected data was analyzed using a t-test to determine if there is a significant difference in the means of survey score for each question between the control and experimental group. The analyzed data suggest that the use of VCEs in engineering design course has positive impacts on the students' perceived experiences of collaborative teamwork. Detailed information on the statistical analysis results will be shared in a full paper.


AU  - Henry Claesson
AU  - Robert Hodge
AU  - Eunsil Lee
AU  - Jennifer Benning
AU  - David Gray
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
DA  - 2022/08/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Student Perception of Virtual Collaboration Environments on Teaming Success in an Online Project-Based First-Year Engineering Design Course
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