Resumen de Ten teamwork findings from student design teams
Allison M. Traylor, Matthew Wettergreen, Gary Woods, Z. Maria Oden, Eduardo Salas
Given the increasing emphasis on teamwork in engineering education, our interdisciplinary research team has combined expertise inthe science of teamwork and best practices in engineering education, spending three years investigating the functioning ofengineering design teams at our university. This effort has culminated in a number of research efforts incorporating bothqualitative and quantitative techniques as well as cutting-edge analytical methods. This paper seeks to summarize our findings,highlighting strengths and drawbacks of these methods and providing ten student engineering team findings that have emergedfrom our research in order. Our findings thus far, centered on topics such as team leadership, diversity, psychological safety, and performance, have provided novel insights within our institution, but also advance the science of teamwork and engineeringeducation. Accordingly, we shed light not only on the implications of our findings for engineering education, but also on the typesof findings that might be elicited through various approaches to teamwork assessment in engineering education.
