Effect of personality traits in team dynamics and project outcomes in engineering design

• Autores: Justine Boudreau, Hanan Anis
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 36, no. Extra 1 (Parte B), 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Teamwork Assessment in Engineering Education), págs. 420-435
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Engineering is home to multiple rapid prototyping facilities and entrepreneurship spaces.These include a makerspace, a machine shop and a design space for any student to use free of charge. In the Makerlab, studentstake courses that introduce them to collaborative project-based learning, engineering problem-solving and prototyping. The goal ofthe first- and second-year engineering design courses is to introduce engineering design processes, time and project management,and analysis, prototyping and testing. In each course, students work in groups on a semester-long project to meet the needs of areal client whom they meet with three times over the course of the project. The objective of this paper is to understand the impactof each team member’s personality, more specifically the Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion,agreeableness and neuroticism), on team dynamics and team performance with regards to their project throughout the semester in aproject-based learning environment. Factors considered are gender, GPA, the Big Five personality scores, final peer evaluationsand team dynamics, project manager evaluations and project grades. Multiple regression analysis is conducted to determine if anyof the factors listed influence team performance and dynamics as well as individual project grades.