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A team formation framework for managing diversity in multidisciplinary engineering project

Team formation is one of the essential elements in constructing effective teamwork of any team size that requires different skill sets. Diversity in team encourages students to challenge and compete with one another while searching for new ideas, which in turn can lead to a better team performance....

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Main Authors: Hussein, Shawqi Mohammed, Hasan, Mahmudul, Murtuza, Mohammed Golam
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Published: Kassel University Press GmbH 2017
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Q Science (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/77535/
http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v7i1.6461
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spelling my.utm.775352018-11-30T07:09:56Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/77535/ A team formation framework for managing diversity in multidisciplinary engineering project Hussein, Shawqi Mohammed Hasan, Mahmudul Murtuza, Mohammed Golam Q Science (General) Team formation is one of the essential elements in constructing effective teamwork of any team size that requires different skill sets. Diversity in team encourages students to challenge and compete with one another while searching for new ideas, which in turn can lead to a better team performance. In a well-functioning diverse teams, the students who performed poorly may gain benefit by observing how excellent students approach the assignments. They may also benefit by getting advice and assistance from the excellent students. Studies have shown that Malaysian university graduates lack of team skills. The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for forming a diverse multidisciplinary team among engineering undergraduates based on selected criteria such as individual personality type, gender, and other relevant demographic information. The proposed framework can also be used to design an automated team-formation system based on the identified metrics. The purpose of the framework is to consolidate the existing team formation literature, and to develop and test interventions for maximizing individual member and team performance as a whole that makes an effective team. For this study, a multidisciplinary approach was used where first year engineering students from three different faculties, namely Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FKE), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FKM), and Faculty of Biosciences and Medical Engineering (FBME) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) worked on an innovation project using the Conceive, Design, Implement, and Operate (CDIO) framework. Keirsey Temperament Sorter was used as an instrument to identify an individual's personality type. Kassel University Press GmbH 2017-01 Article PeerReviewed Hussein, Shawqi Mohammed and Hasan, Mahmudul and Murtuza, Mohammed Golam (2017) A team formation framework for managing diversity in multidisciplinary engineering project. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 7 (1). pp. 84-94. ISSN 2192-4880 http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v7i1.6461 DOI: 10.3991/ijep.v7i1.6461
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topic Q Science (General)
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Hussein, Shawqi Mohammed
Hasan, Mahmudul
Murtuza, Mohammed Golam
A team formation framework for managing diversity in multidisciplinary engineering project
description Team formation is one of the essential elements in constructing effective teamwork of any team size that requires different skill sets. Diversity in team encourages students to challenge and compete with one another while searching for new ideas, which in turn can lead to a better team performance. In a well-functioning diverse teams, the students who performed poorly may gain benefit by observing how excellent students approach the assignments. They may also benefit by getting advice and assistance from the excellent students. Studies have shown that Malaysian university graduates lack of team skills. The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for forming a diverse multidisciplinary team among engineering undergraduates based on selected criteria such as individual personality type, gender, and other relevant demographic information. The proposed framework can also be used to design an automated team-formation system based on the identified metrics. The purpose of the framework is to consolidate the existing team formation literature, and to develop and test interventions for maximizing individual member and team performance as a whole that makes an effective team. For this study, a multidisciplinary approach was used where first year engineering students from three different faculties, namely Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FKE), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FKM), and Faculty of Biosciences and Medical Engineering (FBME) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) worked on an innovation project using the Conceive, Design, Implement, and Operate (CDIO) framework. Keirsey Temperament Sorter was used as an instrument to identify an individual's personality type.
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author Hussein, Shawqi Mohammed
Hasan, Mahmudul
Murtuza, Mohammed Golam
author_facet Hussein, Shawqi Mohammed
Hasan, Mahmudul
Murtuza, Mohammed Golam
author_sort Hussein, Shawqi Mohammed
title A team formation framework for managing diversity in multidisciplinary engineering project
title_short A team formation framework for managing diversity in multidisciplinary engineering project
title_full A team formation framework for managing diversity in multidisciplinary engineering project
title_fullStr A team formation framework for managing diversity in multidisciplinary engineering project
title_full_unstemmed A team formation framework for managing diversity in multidisciplinary engineering project
title_sort team formation framework for managing diversity in multidisciplinary engineering project
publisher Kassel University Press GmbH
publishDate 2017
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/77535/
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