Teamwork challenges and solution strategies of first-semester engineering students (CROSBI ID 694541)
Prilog sa skupa u zborniku | izvorni znanstveni rad | međunarodna recenzija
Podaci o odgovornosti
Gorup, Andrija ; Grzunov, Matej ; Petrović, Juraj ; Pale, Predrag
engleski
Teamwork challenges and solution strategies of first-semester engineering students
Teamwork is an important skill for today’s engineers, who often work in international teams where decision making, problem solving, and all communication aspects need to be dealt with efficiently. It is important therefore to familiarize engineering students with challenges they will face in such situations and provide them with related practical experiences before they enter the labour market. And while engineering students typically have opportunities to work in project teams, those teams are often assembled by students themselves, unlike real project teams in which engineers cannot always choose their teammates. This paper explores dynamics of student teams formed in a way that maximizes group heterogeneity in terms of academic success, geographical origin, and gender, and thereby minimizes probability of students already knowing each other. In such conditions, students are assigned a task to solve in teams of five. Teams’ work results and reflections collected through a questionnaire were used to identify typical challenges students face, and strategies they employ to solve them. Educational implications and improvements of this intervention are discussed in the paper.
teamwork ; groupwork ; team communication ; team formation
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Podaci o prilogu
1809-1813.
2020.
objavljeno
10.23919/MIPRO48935.2020.9245408
Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji
2020 Proceedings of the 43rd International Convention
Karolj, Skala
Opatija:
Podaci o skupu
MIPRO 2020
predavanje
28.09.2020-02.10.2020
Opatija, Hrvatska