There’s an article by [Richard] Felder that talks about the improvements he observed. So I show them a little of that data about how grades have gone up, how attitudes improved, and so on. I don’t spend a lot of time on that—five to ten minutes. I also talk about the importance of teaming and show a few things—employers’ lists of skills that we look for when we interview, skills that we use when we evaluate employees. . . . Teaming is always very high on that . . . so I use that for an argument. I even use the ABET [Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology] guidelines as an argument sometimes to justify it.

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