Establishing faculty perceptions of undergraduate engineering design team leadership

• Autores: James Righter, Maria Vittoria Elena, Joshua D. Summers
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 36, no. 2, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Clive L. Dym Mudd Design Workshop XI Design Education and Practice – How Process Matters), págs. 814-827
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Leadership is a significant teamwork process in industry and student engineering design teams. Capstone design and additionalstudent design team experiences provide students with the opportunity to develop team skills in addition to applying otherengineering skills acquired during their undergraduate education. They also offer an opportunity to provide training and educationto students on leadership skills. Six faculty members were interviewed in this study to determine faculty perceptions of theemergence and distribution of leadership in student teams. These interviews were conducted within the context of a researchcampaign including case and protocol studies designed to understand engineering leadership in these novice design teams. Theinterviews were analyzed using elaborative and inferred coding and additional analysis techniques. The results informed thedevelopment of case and protocol study objectives and approaches and provide an increased understanding of leadership withinthese teams from the faculty perspective.