The Evolution of Team Coordination Commitments in the Context of Computational Projects

This study aims to explore the team coordination commitments reported by undergraduate students pursuing biomedical and agricultural engineering majors after completing three team-based computational modeling assignments throughout the course of a semester. In each post-assignment reflection, the teams were asked to reflect on what aspects could be done better for the next project in terms of team coordination to address the issues that didn't work. Team-based reflections were analyzed using thematic analysis. We identified students' recognition of the importance of scheduling and coordinating meetings, task management and delegation, collaboration and teamwork, and time management towards teams coordination. Furthermore, the results of this study provide the evolution of teams' commitments for three teams, indicating that teams had a shift in their coordination priorities for the different projects.