<p>Positive experiences of teamwork in design contexts significantly improve students’ satisfaction with teaching and their attitudes towards future teamwork. Thus, an understanding of the factors leading to negative and positive team experiences can inform strategies to support effective teamwork. This paper examines design students’ perceptions and experiences of teamwork. Three sources of qualitative data were analysed: a pilot survey completed by 198 design students in four institutions; five focus groups with 23 students; and a national survey completed by 417 students from 18 Australian universities. Students were from a range of design disciplines, with the majority studying architecture. The findings provide insights into issues and challenges of learning how to design in teamwork contexts, in particular the importance of adopting strategies to promote individual accountability within a team and ensuring fair assessment that acknowledges levels of individual contributions. The paper concludes with recommendations for teachers.</p>

We discuss iterated function systems generated by finitely many logistic maps, with a focus on synchronization and intermittency. We provide sufficient conditions for synchronization, involving negative Lyapunov exponents and minimal dynamics. A number of results that clarify the scope of these conditions are included. We analyze a mechanism for intermittency that involves the full map x → 4x(1 − x) as one of the generators of the iterated function system. For iterated function systems generated by x → 2x(1 − x) and x → 4x(1 − x) we prove the existence of a σ-finite stationary measure.

In this paper, 2-point block method with two off-step points based on Backward Differentiation Formula (BDF) for solving stiff ODEs is formulated. The strategy of the developed method is to calculate two solution values of the method with two off-step points simultaneously at each iteration. Stability region and convergence of the method are also generated. The numerical results obtained are compared with the fifth order 2-point block BDF method to compare the enhancement of the method in terms of accuracy.

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In this paper we prove the existence of full measure unbounded chaotic attractors which are persistent under parameter perturbation (also called robust). We show that this occurs in a discontinuous piecewise smooth one-dimensional map f , belonging to the family known as Nordmark's map. To prove the result we extend the properties of a full shift on a …nite or in…nite number of symbols to a map, here called Baker-like map with in…nitely many branches, de…ned as a map of the interval I = [0; 1] into itself with in…nitely branches due to expanding functions with range I except at most the rightmost one. The proposed example is studied by using the …rst return map in I, which we prove to be chaotic in I making use of the border collision bifurcations curves of basic cycles. This leads to a robust unbounded chaotic attractor, the interval (1; 1], for the map f. Kyewords. Unbounded chaotic attractors, Robust full measure chaotic attractors, Piecewise smooth systems, Full shift maps, Border collision bifurcations