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.