Outside interests, the engineering student and teamwork

Interest in research into student undergraduate project teams has been growing for some time, led by the growing use of project-based learning and more industry-integrated curriculum in engineering schools. For students to be able to learn from team-based work, the team experience, and the roles that students play within teams, must be a useful learning exercise. Current practice is for lecturers to either allow students to form their own teams or to assign teams, with little time available to give much thought into forming successful teams.