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Outcome 11: The ability to function on (multidisciplinary) teams

Level 5 performance characterized by:

  • Routinely present at team meetings or work sessions
    Contributes a fair share to the project workload
  • Is prepared for the group meeting with clearly formulated ideas
  • Cooperates with others (outside of the discipline)
  • Shares credit for success with others and accountability for team results
  • Shares information with others and provides assistance to others
  • Demonstrates the ability to assume a designated role in the group
  • Values alternative perspectives and encourages participation among all team members
  • Remains non-judgmental when disagreeing with others/seeks conflict resolution; does not "point fingers" or blame others when things go wrong
  • Is courteous group member
  • Has knowledge of technical skills, issues and approaches germane to disciplines outside of civil engineering

Level 3 performance characterized by:

  • Absent occasionally, but does not inconvenience group
    Sometimes depends on others to complete the work; contributes less than fair share
  • Prepares somewhat for group meetings, but ideas are not clearly formulated
  • Occasionally works as a loner or interacts to a minor extent with extra-disciplinary team members
  • Makes subtle references to other's poor performance or sometimes does not identify contributions of other team members
  • Sometimes keeps information to himself/herself; not very willing to share
  • Takes charge when not in the position to lead
  • Persuades others to adopt only his/her ideas or grudgingly accepts the ideas of others
  • Sometimes criticizes ideas of other team members or blames others for errors
  • Is not always considerate or courteous towards team members
  • Has some knowledge of other disciplines, but gets lost in discussions with extra-disciplinary team members

Level 1 performance characterized by:

  • Is absent from team meetings or work sessions >50% of the time
  • Does not contribute to group work at all or submits own work as the group's
  • Routinely fails to prepare for meetings
  • Does work on his/her own; does not value team work
  • Claims work of group as own or frequently blames others
  • Hides in the background; only participates if strongly encouraged
  • Does not willingly assume team roles
  • Does not consider the ideas of others
  • Is openly critical of the performance of others
  • Is discourteous to other group members
  • Has no knowledge of disciplines outside of civil engineering



Highlights
Jack Puleo has won the NSF Early Career Development Award
Jack Puleo, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to study swash zone sediment transport. The swash zone is the area near the shoreline where waves wash up and down the beach face.

The five-year $444,229 award is aimed at developing a broader understanding of the physics of coastal sediment transport in this area, thereby leading to significant improvement in the ability to predict such coastal phenomena as beach erosion and beach nourishment performance.

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