Track 2. Engineering Education and Technological / Professional Learning Authors: Sophie Gorgemans, Maria Jesus Alonso-Nuez and Jorge Rosell-Martinez.

1. Motivating Engineering students to Improve
Teamwork and Time Management
Gorgemans S.; Alonso Nuez M.J.; Rosell Martínez J.Gorgemans S.; Alonso Nuez M.J.; Rosell Martínez J.
Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, Universidad Zaragoza, sgorge@unizar.es
Acquisition of skills: TWC & TM
•Top 10 Soft skills: Teamwork the third more important
Source: Starting a New Job; On the Right Foot, Campus to
corporate, June 20, 2017
TEEM– 2018
October 24-26
Source: Land Sailing BCN, access on Sept 18

2. Motivating Engineering students to Improve
Teamwork and Time Management
Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, Universidad Zaragoza, sgorge@unizar.es
Acquisition of skills: TWC & TM
•For EHEA = Key-element to achieve a transfer of skills
to the professional sphere and to the society
TEEM– 2018
October 24-26
Encouraged by developing more flexible curricula,
allowing the students to explore the world
and our society as one immense learning space
1. INTRODUCTION1. INTRODUCTION 2. CONTEXT2. CONTEXT 3. OBJECTIVES3. OBJECTIVES 4. METHOD4. METHOD5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS
Source:https://slideplayer.com/slide/6264926/

3. 1. INTRODUCTION1. INTRODUCTION 2. CONTEXT2. CONTEXT 3. OBJECTIVES3. OBJECTIVES 4. METHOD4. METHOD5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS
Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, sgorge@unizar.es
Acquisition of skills: TWC & TM
•Top 10 Soft skills: Teamwork the third more important
•For EHEA = Key element to achieve a transfer of skills to
the professional sphere and to the society
Encouraged by developing more
flexible curricula, allowing
the students to explore the world
and our society as one immense
learning space
Source: Starting a New Job; On the Right Foot, Campus to
corporate, June 20, 2017
Motivating Engineering students to Improve
Teamwork and Time Management
TEEM– 2018
October 24-26

4. Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, sgorge@unizar.es
Acquisition of skills: TWC & TM
•Make the difference between a competitive and efficient person and a non-competitive
•Better balance between academic and personal life
Work expands so as to fill the time
available for its completion
1. INTRODUCTION1. INTRODUCTION 2. CONTEXT2. CONTEXT 3. OBJECTIVES3. OBJECTIVES 4. METHOD4. METHOD5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS
Motivating Engineering students to Improve
Teamwork and Time Management
TEEM– 2018
October 24-26
Source: https://blog.devolutions.net/2014/2/sysadminotaur-27-parkinsons-law
https://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/read/22404
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5. Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, sgorge@unizar.es
• Business Administration in all current Engineering degrees at the University of Zaragoza
• 6 ECTS
• Compulsory
• First academic year (fall or spring semester)
• 1,000 students enrolled
• Continuous evaluation:
1. INTRODUCTION1. INTRODUCTION 2. CONTEXT2. CONTEXT 3. OBJECTIVES3. OBJECTIVES 4. METHOD4. METHOD5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS
ACTIVITES %
Exam 75
Business Plan 20
Laboratories 5
Motivating Engineering students to Improve
Teamwork and Time Management
TEEM– 2018
October 24-26

6. Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, sgorge@unizar.es
• To give students some tools to better manage the team and better control
the time used to elaborate their business plan and assess the results
• Introduce tools to improve the teamwork functionning and time
management
1. INTRODUCTION1. INTRODUCTION 2. CONTEXT2. CONTEXT 3. OBJECTIVES3. OBJECTIVES 4. METHOD4. METHOD5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS
Motivating Engineering students to Improve
Teamwork and Time Management
TEEM– 2018
October 24-26

7. Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, sgorge@unizar.es
1. Project notebook reviewed
2. Meeting minute design
3. What about time management? Some
tools (Training by Universa)
1. INTRODUCTION1. INTRODUCTION 2. CONTEXT2. CONTEXT 3. OBJECTIVES3. OBJECTIVES 4. METHOD4. METHOD5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS
¿What about team
creation?
¿What about the work
dynamics?
Roles’ Assignement:
leader, secretary and
spokesman
Motivating Engineering students to Improve
Teamwork and Time Management
TEEM– 2018
October 24-26

8. Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, sgorge@unizar.es
1. Project notebook reviewed
2. Meeting minute design
3. What about time management? Some
tools (Training by Universa)
1. INTRODUCTION1. INTRODUCTION 2. CONTEXT2. CONTEXT 3. OBJECTIVES3. OBJECTIVES 4. METHOD4. METHOD5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS
• General data
• Issues to be delt
with
• Results obtained
• New tasks’
assignement +
delivery date
• Problems or
Incidents
Meeting minutes
Motivating Engineering students to Improve
Teamwork and Time Management
TEEM– 2018
October 24-26

9. Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, sgorge@unizar.es
1. Project notebook reviewed
2. Meeting minute design
3. What about time management? Some
tools (Training by Universa)
1. INTRODUCTION1. INTRODUCTION 2. CONTEXT2. CONTEXT 3. OBJECTIVES3. OBJECTIVES 4. METHOD4. METHOD5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS
• Use an agenda
• Define objectives
• Establish a Priority System
• Center your energy on outstanding issues
with greater benefit
• Bring together similar tasks
• Control interruptions
• Be assertive and efficient
• Don’t forget to assign execution time
• Use mobile phones to arrange for a meeting,
share informations, etc.
Motivating Engineering students to Improve
Teamwork and Time Management
TEEM– 2018
October 24-26

10. Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, sgorge@unizar.es
Sample:
724 students
108 teams
Teachers’
questionnaire
Answers: 67,8%
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Participation Frequency in each group of BA
Engineering
Degree
Number
of
Students
Enrolled
Number of
Teamwork
Members
involved
in
Teamwork
% of
participation
Group
size
(mean)
Mechanics 1 83 9 44 53.0 4.9
Mechanics 2 64 7 34 53.1 4.9
Mechanics 3 74 10 42 56.8 4.2
Electronic &
Automatic 1
68 11 52 76.5 4.7
Electronic &
Automatic 2
63 7 34 54.0 4.9
Chemistry 42 8 33 78.6 4.1
Industrial
Technologies 1
74 14 55 74.3 3.9
Industrial
Technologies 2
55 10 51 92.7 5.1
Informatics 1 57 9 44 77.2 4.9
Informatics 2 48 8 36 75.0 4.5
Telecommunications
1
47 8 31 66.0 3.9
Telecommunications
2
49 7 35 71.4 5.0
TOTAL 724 108 491 67.8 4.5
Enrollment in BA 916 53.6
Engineering
Degree
Roles
distribution
Mean
(S.D.)
Number
of
Records
Mean
(S.D.)
Meetings
celebrated
Mean
(S.D.)
Work
distribution
Mean
(S.D.)
Number
of
conflicts
Mean
(S.D.)
Mechanics 1 1.78 (1.09) 4.44
(2.83)
3.54 (2.49)
1 (0) 0.11
(.33)
Mechanics 2 3.14 (.38) 4.29
(2.81)
1 (0) 0 (0)
Mechanics 3 1.4 (.97) 2.2
(1.23)
.9 (.32) 0 (0)
Electronic &
Automatic 1
2.55 (1.29) 2.36
(1.69)
3.28 (2.14)
.45 (.52) 0 (0)
Electronic &
Automatic 2
3.0 (0) 4.7
(2.06)
.43 (.53) 0 (0)
Chemistry 2.0 (0) 3.75
(2.76)
3.75 (2.76) 1 (0) 0 (0)
Industrial
Technologies 1
0.93 (.27) 1.29
(1.98)
3.17 (3.24)
.93 (.27) .07 (.27)
Industrial
Technologies 2
2.5 (.53) 5.8
(2.82)
.90 (.32) .10 (.32)
Informatics 1 2.78 (.44) 5.0 (3.0)
4.23 (2.86)
.78 (.44) .22 (.44)
Informatics 2 1.37 (1.06) 3.37
(2.6)
.87 (.35) 0 (0)
Telecommunications
1
1.12 (.35) 5.62
(3.38)
4.33 (2.97)
.87 (.35) 0 (0)
Telecommunications
2
3.43 (.53) 2.86
(1.57)
.86 (.38) .43 (.53)
TOTAL 2.07 (1.06) 3.65
(2.74)
.83 (.37) .07 (.26)
Means and standard deviation of elements of the TW
Motivating Engineering students to Improve
Teamwork and Time Management
TEEM– 2018
October 24-26

11. Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, sgorge@unizar.es
1. INTRODUCTION1. INTRODUCTION 2. CONTEXT2. CONTEXT 3. OBJECTIVES3. OBJECTIVES 4. METHOD4. METHOD5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS
Bloxplot of Work Grades regarding the
roles’distributions Record sections Topics
to bediscussed
Results
achieved
Upcoming
tasks
Mean (%) 68.7 47.2 47.3
St. deviation 0.30 0.22 0.26
Quality of the meeting minutes
Motivating Engineering students to Improve
Teamwork and Time Management
Teachers’ Perceptions about the TW & TM Tools offered
TEEM– 2018
October 24-26
Dimensions Adequacy Improvement Interest Time
Mean (%) 2.65 2.35 2.09 2.27
St. deviation 0.57 0.75 0.69 0.76

12. Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, sgorge@unizar.es
1. INTRODUCTION1. INTRODUCTION 2. CONTEXT2. CONTEXT 3. OBJECTIVES3. OBJECTIVES 4. METHOD4. METHOD5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS5. RESULTS & IMPLICATIONS
Highlights
• The dropout falls down from 20% to 4,6%
• The less defined the roles are the lower the
work score is
• The workload seems fairly distributed
• The percentage of conflicts < 10%.
• The more defined and better assigned the
roles are among the students, the less
conflicts teams had to face with
• The sphere of the Engineering degree is
related with the level of roles’ assignment
and with time management efficacy
• Students are not enthusiastic with the
administrative task
Limits
The assessment of the TWC cannot be based only on the
result of the group activities and teachers’ perceptions
Improvements
Students’ perceptions
Implications
For all teamwork in every grade tools application
Motivating Engineering students to Improve
Teamwork and Time Management
TEEM– 2018
October 24-26