Planning teamwork teaching based on students' feedback in engineering education of China

Teamwork has been considered as one of the important learning outcomes for engineering graduates. Industry sees higher education as being where graduates should be prepared with these professional skills. Every year, a lot of engineering students graduate in China and how best to train these students to be good team players is an urgent and important need. This paper describes a planned, improved mechanism for teamwork teaching on a joint degree programme between a top Chinese university and a key British university. A previous experiment about teamwork teaching to Chinese engineering students was conducted in a Personal Development Plan (PDP) module that takes professional skills as its main objectives. This work describes an improved approach to teamwork teaching based on the experience derived from the previous practice and a summary of students' feedback about PDP that was collected from several questionnaire-based semi-structured interviews. The improved approach will be conducted in both the PDP module and a technical module - Software Engineering.