© R. J. Eggert, 20101Capstone Design Conference 2010 Coaching Design Project Teams to Victory Rudy Eggert Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering

Agenda Introduction Seminar Sessions  Planning the course  Forming project teams  Building teamwork skills  Fixing dysfunctional teams Wrap-up © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/20102

Why are we here today? © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/20103  Engineering Design  Project management  Teamwork To improve our students’ skills :

Why the title? Coaching Design Project Teams Victory © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/20104

Why “Coaching?”  Coaches motivate learners to draw on knowledge they already possess and to solve real world problems with it.  Coaches mentor & advise versus “teach”  Coaches also recruit, plan, evaluate, motivate and make substitutions © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/20105

What is “design?”  a set of decision-making processes  used to determine the form of a product given the functions desired by the customer  usually requires group decision-making © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/20106

What is a “project?”  unique sequence of work tasks,  undertaken once  achieves a specific set of objectives Project Plan includes work tasks, budgets, schedules and establishes who, what and how much © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/20107

What is a team / teamwork? Group of people that:  have complementary skills and knowledge  work together toward common goals  hold each other mutually accountable Works for sports team or design project team 6/8/20108 © R. J. Eggert, 2010

What is a “victory?” Victory = wherein the students:  deploy effective design methods  develop sound project mgt procedures  develop teamwork skills As Beyerlein might say… it’s not the design artifact dummy… it’s the process! © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/20109

Seminar Format  Moderator poses topic (< 1 min)  Participants (round table discussion) select a “reporter” (<1 min) discuss topic (<10 min) summarize important points (< 2 min)  Table “reporter” stands/delivers  Moderator wraps-up/take home materials  “Reporter” hands-in “summary” sheet © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/201010

Schedule © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/201011

Planning a capstone design project course © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/201012

Planning - Take Home © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/ Project development process FAQ Project description sample Syllabus Schedule Prototyping plan Clients’ assessment

Forming design project teams © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/201014

Forming Teams - Take Home © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/ Team forming process Project applications (Faculty approval via )

Building teamwork skills © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/201016

Teamwork Skills - Take Home © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/ Winning Teamwork Skills – intro/handout Team Development – commitment / rules Team skills builder (like CATME) Teamwork.htm

Fixing dysfunctional teams © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/201018

Dysfunctional Teams Take Home © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/ (Required progress report s) (Required stand/deliver oral reports) Five minute survey (Bi-weekly project review meetings) (Team Skills Builder reports) Monash U. Strategies

Coaching Design Project Teams The “Coaching” approach includes developing students’:  Design skills  Project mgt skills, and  Teamwork skills We are the “head coaches,” we are responsible for a winning season. © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/201020

To coach a “winning” semester we need a winning attitude: "Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." Vince Lombardi © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/201021

Thank you for participating!  See my website for ideas: (see Senior Design Project ME481/483 and Capstone Design Conference)  Examine the 2 nd Ed. of Engineering Design (see website above)  Send to me at © R. J. Eggert, 20106/8/201022