There are many reasons to use student teams in the engineering classroom. Students can develop important teamwork skills, learn to work with diverse others, and have deeper learning gains, and instructors can offer more extensive feedback on fewer, but better, team assignments. Having students work in teams, however, does introduce some issues – from forming successful teams to dealing with teams in crisis to evaluating students’ individual contributions to team assignments. At this working session, Dr. Matt Ohland will introduce the Team-Maker and CATME Systems. Participants will learn about and interact with these award-winning, online tools for forming and managing student teams. Bring a laptop with wireless access to participate fully.

 

This session is part of the Engineering Education Research Day. 

 

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Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. He is known particularly for his research on managing student teams and longitudinal studies of engineering students using institutional data. He directed the development of the Comprehensive Assessment of Team-Member Effectiveness, a project that has grown into the System for the Management, Assessment, Research, Training, Education, and Remediation for Teamwork (SMARTER Teamwork). The system is used by 200,000 students of 4350 faculty at 835 institutions in 54 countries. Dr. Ohland is a Fellow of ASEE and IEEE, and with collaborators, he has received best paper awards from the Journal of Education (2008 and 2011) and the IEEE Transactions on Education.