Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In the process of integrating teambuilding training into a chemical engineering projects laboratory, we concluded that a pedagogical tool was needed to move the student teams through the early team life cycle and communication stages in order to create the needed trust to begin effective communication.The tool we developed consists of two parts: (1) an entrance questionnaire concerning attitudes towards working on a team in the laboratory class; and (2) a document in which the questionnaire responses are sorted and merged for each team, which we refer to as the "Initial Team Dialogues."The dialogues foster introspection and immediately force the students to deal with core behavioral issues, and they create an arena where the members can examine the function of their team as a unit.How will you manage your time so that assignments are turned in on?How will you organize team writing assignments?How will your team help to prepare an oral presentation given by one of your team members?How will you write your written reports so they sound like they are written by one person?How will you decide what information goes in your written reports?How will you break the writing tasks into portions and determine which portion each team member will work on?Should you write an outline. of the report together?Should you create an outline of the writing process in order to assign the tasks?Who will proofread?Will you take turns editing?How will you support a team member who is less skilled in writing than the others?How will you keep track of the documents (e.g., literature papers, laboratory notebook, sections of reports, etc.) that you need and use in your project?Will one team member be in charge of the technical content of the reports and another be in charge of the writing style?How will you deal with conflict over writing style in your reports?Faculty Advisor Do you want your advisor to be a member of your team or to act as a consultant?Should you treat your advisor as if he/she was your boss in a work situation or as resource?How often should the team meet for brainstorming sessions?Can people eat at meetings?Can people smoke at meetings?
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--7711
Authors: Clark Colton, Bonnie D. Burrell
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2612846558