Team oriented capstone design course management: a new approach to team formulation and evaluation

The authors report on a scheme for evaluating students involved in team-oriented capstone engineering design projects. This scheme, implemented in Bradley's Industrial Engineering Department, addresses the problems associated with forming teams, potential interpersonal conflicts within the team, and the difficulty in assigning grades to individuals when the project is a team project. Under the scheme the categories, point values, and weights will vary for different programs. This method of evaluation give the faculty a more objective (and more defensible) approach to team project grading. The faculty involved in each program will have to decide on modifications to this scheme depending on their own requirements.<>