BUILDING ENGINEERING TEAM SKILLS - PHASE ONE: INDUSTRY VALUES AND BEST PRACTICES

摘要

We describe the first phase of a multi-year multi-perspective NSF funded study of engineering team skills. The overall goals of the project are: To identify and determine the relative value that industry places on team skills of engineers and to exploit the largely untapped source of know-how embedded in industry best practices; To apply this knowledge to the development of specific tools and materials designed to build engineering team skills in engineering undergraduates, and; To make those teaching methods, exercises and materials available to engineering educators. To accomplish these goals we use a phased approach in both the research component (determining industry values and best practices) and in the curriculum development component. The phased approach allows each activity to be informed by the results of the previous phase(s).