Coaching
Design Project Teams
to
Victory
Rudy Eggert
Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering
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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… it’s not the design
artifact dummy… it’s 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
start
time
end
Welcome & Introduction
7:00
0:15
7:15
Planning a capstone design project course
1st Qtr Break
7:15
7:40
0:25
0:10
7:40
7:50
Forming design project teams
Half-time Break
7:50
8:15
0:25
0:15
8:15
8:30
Building teamwork skills
8:30
8:55
0:25
0:10
8:55
9:05
Fixing dysfunctional teams
9:05
0:25
9:30
Wrap-up
9:30
0:10
9:40
3rd Qtr Break
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Planning a capstone design
project course
start
7:15
7:16
7:30
7:35
7:40
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0:01
0:14
0:05
0:05
0:10
end
7:16
7:30
7:35
7:40
7:50
Intro
Round Table Discussion
Round Table Reports
Wrap-up
1st Qtr Break
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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
7:50
7:51
8:05
8:10
8:15
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0:14
0:05
0:05
0:15
7:51
8:05
8:10
8:15
8:30
Intro
Round Table Discussion
Round Table Reports
Wrap-up
Half-time Break
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Forming Teams - Take Home
Team forming process
Project applications
(Faculty approval via Email)
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Building teamwork skills
8:30
8:31
8:45
8:50
8:55
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0:14
0:05
0:05
0:10
8:31
8:45
8:50
8:55
9:05
Intro
Round Table Discussion
Round Table Reports
Wrap-up
3rd Qtr Break
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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
start
9:05
9:06
9:20
9:25
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0:14
0:05
0:05
end
9:06
9:20
9:25
9:30
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Intro
Round Table Discussion
Round Table Reports
Wrap-up
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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 [email protected]
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