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The ability to work in a professional team is an essential social competence of engineers, who must collaborate on common tasks, with shared goals. Social competence has many aspects that are difficult to define and evaluate. Based on a theoretical framework of social competence, we identify several specific attributes and indicators that can be used to develop and evaluate social competencies related to teamwork in professional engineering. The specific attributes are professional project management, team interaction and professional documentation. These attributes are fostered in several ways. Team communication and coordination is fostered through explicit team roles (e.g. moderator, secretary, project manager, etc.), explicit requirements for project planning and scheduling, requiring professional documentation, and using computer tools to support these collaborative activities. These strategies develop competencies in communication, teamwork, presenting and understanding information, and using collaboration tool. At a higher level, these competencies contribute to each team member understanding the roles and contributions of the other team members, developing a shared understanding of the team’s position, and negotiating within the team and with external parties to reach sound decisions and conclusions. This paper describes and compares experiences using collaboration software tools to support teamwork activities in undergraduate design projects at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Western University. Collaboration tools include Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, Sakai, and wikis. The paper discusses the selection of appropriate tools, the formalization of their use, and methods used to evaluate student competence.
The ability to work in a professional team is an essential social competence of engineers, who must collaborate on common tasks, with shared goals. Social competence has many aspects that are difficult to define and evaluate. Based on a theoretical framework of social competence, we identify several specific attributes and indicators that can be used to develop and evaluate social competencies related to teamwork in professional engineering. The specific attributes are professional project management, team interaction and professional documentation. These attributes are fostered in several ways. Team communication and coordination is fostered through explicit team roles (e.g. moderator, secretary, project manager, etc.), explicit requirements for project planning and scheduling, requiring professional documentation, and using computer tools to support these collaborative activities. These strategies develop competencies in communication, teamwork, presenting and understanding information, and using collaboration tool. At a higher level, these competencies contribute to each team member understanding the roles and contributions of the other team members, developing a shared understanding of the team’s position, and negotiating within the team and with external parties to reach sound decisions and conclusions. This paper describes and compares experiences using collaboration software tools to support teamwork activities in undergraduate design projects at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Western University. Collaboration tools include Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, Sakai, and wikis. The paper discusses the selection of appropriate tools, the formalization of their use, and methods used to evaluate student competence.
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