Teamwork

Teamwork is an important part of Engineering. There are so many components to any Engineering project that it's just unrealistic for any one person to be able to bear the entire workload, and, thus, Engineering generally involves teams. In my past two Engineering classes I have had the misfortune of being put into teams with males who clearly believe that women have no place in Engineering. For that reason, I'm glad I'm with two other girls who seem to want to work in a team just as much as I do. While, quite often, "teamwork" translates into one person doing the work and three people getting credit, I don't think that will be the case in this class.

In order to keep everyone doing their fair share and to get all the work done in time we are going to need to budget our time effectively and communicate well. I don't see this as a setback in our group because we are communicating effectively already. We will need to keep this up though, to make sure that our ideas mesh well together and we can work out any conflict that arises.

As a team we are also going to need to work together frequently to get everything done, so it is good that we all live in the same dorm. It makes things a lot easier to work out when your team is just an elevator ride away.

I think that our team will be able to work well together as long as we keep in mind that this is a team effort and we continually communicate and plan together throughout the duration of the term.


~ Stephanie ~