Design Educator Education - Creating Effective Judging and Teaching Teams in Engineering Design Contests and Courses

In this paper we employ Tuckman’s model of team development to understand how judging and teaching teams form in the context of design contests and courses. A poorly developed team can negatively influence student or participant experience at these events. Tuckman’s Form-Storm-Norm-Perform model provides insights into how such teams can fail to develop and, we argue, suggests strategies and approaches for improved team orientations, meetings, and rubric development practices that help develop more effective judging and teaching teams.