Coaching

Design Project Teams

to
Victory
Rudy Eggert
Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering

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Capstone Design Conference 2010

Agenda
Introduction
Seminar Sessions
Planning the course
Forming project teams
Building teamwork skills
Fixing dysfunctional teams

Wrap-up

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Why are we here today?

To improve our students skills :
Engineering Design
Project management
Teamwork

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Why the title?

Coaching
Design
Project
Teams
Victory

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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

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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

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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

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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

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What is a victory?
Victory = wherein the students:
deploy effective design methods
develop sound project mgt procedures
develop teamwork skills
As Beyerlein might say its not the design
artifact dummy its the process!
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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
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Schedule

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Planning a capstone design

project course

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Planning - Take Home

Project development process
FAQ
Project description sample
Syllabus
Schedule
Prototyping plan
Clients assessment

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Forming design project teams

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Forming Teams - Take Home

Team forming process
Project applications
(Faculty approval via Email)

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Building teamwork skills

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Teamwork Skills - Take Home

Winning Teamwork Skills intro/handout
Team Development commitment / rules
Team skills builder (like CATME)
http://coen.boisestate.edu/reggert/ME481_3/Teamwork/
Teamwork.htm

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Fixing dysfunctional teams

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Dysfunctional Teams Take Home

(Required progress report emails)
(Required stand/deliver oral reports)
Five minute survey
(Bi-weekly project review meetings)
(Team Skills Builder reports)
Monash U. Strategies
http://coen.boisestate.edu/reggert/ME481_3/

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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.
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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

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Thank you for participating!

See my website for ideas:
http://coen.boisestate.edu/reggert/
(see Senior Design Project ME481/483 and Capstone Design Conference)

Examine the 2nd Ed. of Engineering Design

(see website above)

Send email to me at reggert@boisestate.edu

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