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Abstract NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract Session 3548 Team Projects + Team Teaching = Team Building Elizabeth Petry, AIA Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Architecture Graduate Program Fredrick Mahaffey, AIA Adjunct Professor University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut Abstract Architects in the 21st Century are required to work as key leaders of the design team in developing projects from inception to completion. Solid teamwork is essential for success in the architecture profession and the construction industry. Teaching teamwork to undergraduate architecture students has its challenges and rewards. At the University of Hartford we have chosen to teach our architecture design students team projects through team teaching. Projects involving teamwork offer considerable learning opportunities for the students. Working together and setting an example for students also offers considerable teaching opportunities for design faculty members. Team-taught courses offer numerous advantages for the students, faculty, administration, institution, and the profession. Many of these advantages will prove beneficial to the architecture students overall learning experience and serve to enhance their team building skills. The Profession and Team Building Team building is essential in architecture. A survey of The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice, AIA Press, 1994 reveals the following about architects and teams: • “Almost everything we do is interactive. Architects spend their professional lives working with other people. Doing that effectively depends on building relationships with others. When people with different personalities work together on an issue or project, they tend to look at it form different points of view. Often, one person sees a side of things that others miss. The best results come from maximizing and building on different strengths that those involved bring to solving the problems.”1 • “Even the smallest project requires a team of two: an architect and a client. Relationships expand as teams become larger and include office colleagues, consultants, constructors and possibly others”2 • “Self-motivation tends to be an inherent characteristic of people in architecture firms and other professional organizations.”3 • “An effective team is much more than the sum of the individuals who populate it. One of the (project) manager’s challenges is to build the team – actually help team building itself – into an effective working group.”4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education
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Team projects are a component of many business courses. The objective is to build team skills in addition to learning subject matter. However, instructors often pay less attention to team design and behavior and assume students already have or will learn team skills on their own. The authors examined the effect of providing structure to team work through a semiexperimental design. The results show that the treatment group recognized the importance of the leader and learned about team behavior compared with the control group. The article also distinguishes between structural and behavioral issues in teams and provides recommendations for instructors.
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Teamwork is an acceptable and structured process used by academics to assess progress in academic modules. Team leaders are usually elected to coordinate team activities required for the successful completion of projects. In the process of teamwork, team members and team leaders alike gain valuable skills that will prepare them for life and the world of work. In addition, management and teamwork are also an engineering programme requirement of the engineering accreditation body. This study reports on team leader interviews conducted on completion of a major project executed in an engineering module in an engineering programme. The research was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of team projects in terms of team member commitment, project execution and the associated skills practised. The research can contribute to the structuring of project teams, measures of fair assessment and improving the quality of team project experience.
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Project management methodology is widely used in various aspects of educational activities, including in the field of adult education. In-service training projects implemented by higher education institutions in the field of adult education, mainly at public expense, are limited, on the one hand, in terms of implementation, which leads to the impossibility of increasing project implementation time, then in the amount of funding regulated by relevant provisions and resolutions on the organization of professional training (advanced training) of specialists, and on the other hand, the internal regulations and rules of educational institutions on the organization of training and implementation of educational projects in the field of higher education, aimed at working with students. At the same time, the implementation of such projects is subject to increased requirements for their quality. Under such conditions, the implementation of educational projects of professional development is quite difficult. Teams of educational projects of advanced training are formed mainly of persons selected from among the internal employees of the educational institution, who are able to work with an adult audience. To form such teams, it is necessary to take into account the peculiarities of adult learning, the peculiarities of educational projects of professional development and the peculiarities of the teams of such projects. Accordingly, the management of such teams is associated with certain personnel risks that may affect the success of the project. In turn, working with teams whose members have a high creative potential requires effective management methods, one of which is the process of forming a single, coherent team of like-minded people who can effectively achieve the project goal. A method of forming teams of educational projects of advanced training, obtained as a result of cross-evaluation of qualities (creativity) of team members of such projects, taking into account their personnel risks and "degrees of trust", is proposed. It is concluded that this method allows the head of the educational project to increase the efficiency of decision-making on team building or planning of executors for the educational project of professional development, by selecting applicants with the highest "degrees of trust".
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