Our 6 year ABET review is coming up and we need to show that students who take EME 185A/B can function on multidisciplinary teams. We will collect some data that shows this.
Multidisciplinary Team Definition
A "multidisciplinary team", for our purposes, is defined by:
individual student team member differences (work style, communication style, backgrounds, skills, etc)
working with a variety of sponsors (non-engineering sponsors, other types of engineers, scientists, medical doctors, etc)
working with the instructors (TAs and Jason)
working with people that help the projects (e.g. civil engineering folks that are helping the Cambodia team)
working with other senior design teams (e.g. MAE/BME collaboration with ALS trike)
Not all teams get all of the above experiences but we want to show that all students get at least one or more of these experiences. The should all meet the first one unless the teams just falls apart.
Criteria
We will need to assess a number of criteria with the following metrics, for example:
X% of the groups have a mixed make up
X% of the students do equal work in their team
X% of the groups have to interact with someone that is not of their discipline
X% of the groups reached out for help from people other than their assigned sponsor and instructors
X% of the groups worked with students outside of the MAE department
CATME Data
Peer evaluation questions:
Contributing to the Team's Work
Interacting with Teammates
Keeping the Team on Track
Expecting Quality
Having Related Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Team Conflict
Team Satisfaction
Team Perspectives
Team Maker Questions:
Gender
Race
GPA
Schedule
Weekends
Commute
Credits
On-campus job
Off-campus job
Software
English
Writing
Hands-on
Shop
Commitment
Leadership
Big Picture
Example assessments
Using the CATME team maker results show that the teams have a mixture of student profiles (e.g. for example based on gender, GPA, software skills, writing skills, hands-on skills, etc.)
Using the CATME peer evaluations show the team contribution scores over time and indicate the percentage of students that contribute "equally". The "Contributing to the Team's Work" question can be used for this.
Using the AIOs show the hourly work load for each student over the course wrt to the total hourly workload for the team.
Using the Gantt charts show the breakdown of student contribution to tasks. We could also show the variety of tasks.
Find out how many teams had to work with people other than the instructors and report their professions.
Report percent that did a collaborative project.
Add rubric lines in the final report that ask the students to include something in their report explaining how they felt the multidisciplinary aspects of the class went.
During the poster presentation or the final design review we can question each group on their thoughts on multidisciplinary aspects and collect a qualitative assessment of what they say.
moorepants
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5 years ago
Our 6 year ABET review is coming up and we need to show that students who take EME 185A/B can function on multidisciplinary teams. We will collect some data that shows this.
Multidisciplinary Team Definition
A "multidisciplinary team", for our purposes, is defined by:
Not all teams get all of the above experiences but we want to show that all students get at least one or more of these experiences. The should all meet the first one unless the teams just falls apart.
Criteria
We will need to assess a number of criteria with the following metrics, for example:
CATME Data
Peer evaluation questions:
Team Maker Questions:
Example assessments