INCORPORATING TEAM-EFFECTIVENESS AS A LEARNING OBJECTIVE IN THE DESIGN PROJECT WITHIN A TECHNICAL CORE COURSE

spring semester of second year. A central element of the course is the ‘Environmental Consulting Engineering ’ project, a full semester design project that is executed in five-member teams. The acquisition of teamwork and group-leadership skills has been one of the project learning objectives for about five years; the related instructional components have been refined every year. This presentation will describe the theoretical foundation and methods used to teach team-effectiveness as part of this design project. Instruction of team skills has been based on two conceptual frameworks. A leadership styles framework examines the preferences of individual students and helps students see how these styles are manifested within a team. This framework allow