Student Team Formation and Assignment in a Multi-disciplinary Engineering Design Projects Course: a Pair of Suggested Best Practices

摘要

Over the 7 years in which Carnegie Mellon University's multi-disciplinary Engineering Design Projects course has been offered, the processes for forming the student teams and then associating the teams with client-sponsored projects have matured into what we believe are a pair of best practices. This paper describes our suggested best practices for team formation and associating teams with projects. Further sections describe the path we followed developing these processes and compare our processes with some benchmarks.