Designing Process Enablers to Strengthen Professional Skills in Project Work

Designing Process Enablers to Strengthen Professional Skills in Project Work

H. Wivel, J. Flarup (2013).  Designing Process Enablers to Strengthen Professional Skills in Project Work. 11.

The phrase ”Personal and Interpersonal Skills” is mentioned in six out of 12 standards in the CDIO Syllabus , but these skills are hard to asses and grade. Personal and interpersonal skills are a tacit knowledge, learned and performed by the student through social and professional relations.

Grades are easily given to professional and technological knowledge and technological results, but harder to recognize in working processes and development of personal skills.

We present in this paper our experience with a dual focus in the project work: technical and process performance and we introduce some tools that we have found useful for stimulating project work and group working processes.

Proceedings of the 9th International CDIO Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 9 – 13, 2013.

Authors (New): 
Helle Wivel
Jane Flarup
Pages: 
11
Affiliations: 
Aarhus University, Denmark
Keywords: 
Personal
Interpersonal
skills
process
team
project
Year: 
2013
Reference: 
“Group dynamics – an integrated part of engineering projects”, Johan Bankel and Lennart Persson, 2012, www.cdio.org. : 
http://www.cdio.org/: 
“The CDIO Syllabus. A Statement of Goals for Undergraduate Engineering Education” by Edward F. Crawley, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 2001 http://www.http://www.cdio.org/files/CDIO_Syllabus_Report.pdf. : 
“The developmental sequence in small groups” by B.W. Tuckmann IN Psychological Bulletin, 63, 1965, p. 384-399. : 
”The Wisdom of Teams” by J.R. Katzenbach and D.K. Schmidt, 1993, Boston, Harvard Business School. : 
http://www.belbin.com/: 
http://www.insights.com/: 
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