Corporate Style Team-building Activities for Undergraduate Engineering Programmes

Teamwork skills are among the most important skills that employers' desire to have in the engineers. This paper reports on the use of corporate style team building activities to accelerate the development and enhance the performance of multidisciplinary teams of undergraduate engineering students. The team building exercises emphasised the importance of trust, communication, planning and problem solving for effective teamwork. Majority of the students found the exercises both useful and enjoyable.