Lilianny Virguez is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She holds a master's degree in Management Systems Engineering. She has work experience in engineering and has taught engineering courses at the first-year level.Her research interests include motivation to succeed in engineering with a focus on first-year students. Ing. omar perez
received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering. She holds a M.S. degree in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a M.B.A. and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira-Venezuela. She is currently an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira-Venezuela. Her research interests are teamwork, and organizational change. She worked for nine years for the manufacturing and service industry as an Industrial Engineer prior to her academic career. Dilia Alcalde, Universidad Nacional Experimental del Tachira Dilia M. Alcalde Avendaño received her Ph.D. and M.Ed. in Human Resource Development from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She holds a M.B.A. from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira-Venezuela. She is currently an Aggregate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira-Venezuela. Her research interests are organizational learning, and organizational development. She worked for manufacturing companies in the Human Resource area prior to her academic career.
BackgroundRecent trends in business have pointed to teamwork as an important tool in business success and this has prompted organizations to start looking for teamwork skills in their new employees. They expect that their new employees at least possess the basic understanding of why teamwork skills are important to their organization.As a result, the business environment has put pressure on institutions of higher education to prepare students to be effective team players 1,2,3,4 . For this reason, accreditation institutions at the collegiate level such as the Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC) and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), are requiring higher education institutions to introduce teamwork activities into their curriculums 5,6 . In response to this demand, institutions of higher education are developing methodologies for introducing teamwork in their classrooms for enhancing the process of learning.Collaborative learning, cooperative learning and other forms of active learning are methods that are being used in classrooms as ways to promote teamwork among students and enhance their learning. Although results from studies about the use of teamwork activities in classrooms do not show that teams alone enhance students' performance, they still mention that such activities allow students to learn how to work in teams 4,7,8 .
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