How Engineering Design Students\u2019 Psychological Safety Impacts Team Concept Generation and Screening Practices

Empathy Lesson as a Means of Shifting Student Perception on Role of Engineer

“…These studies, and others showing similar conclusions (for example [3]- [4]), should give pause to engineering educators. The suggestion is that solely helping students learn technical engineering content is perhaps different than helping students to become effective engineers.…”

Work in Progress: A Framework for an Improv Intervention to Increase Psychological Safety and Sense of Belonging on Student Engineering Design Teams

“…The only longitudinal study observed how psychological safety changes over the course of 4 weeks and assessed what might cause these fluctuations [44]. The last study on psychological safety on engineering teams examines the relationship between psychological safety and the number and quality of ideas developed [45]. Aside from these five papers, there is limited discussion of psychological safety in engineering education.…”

Team Formation and Function Decisions and Student Roles on Diverse Engineering Design Teams

“…Newer research has started to explore the concept of psychological safety in terms of teaming [11][12][13][14]. One study found that teams with members who felt psychologically safe had better outcomes [2].…”

“…The presence of psychological safety in teams is characterized by a climate of mutual respect, care, and trust [15]. This is especially important for complex, knowledge-intensive tasks that require creativity and sense-making, like engineering design [13]. The advantages of psychological safety result from improved communication and a team culture that encourages individuals to feel comfortable expressing their concerns and ideas, raising problems, disagreeing, asking questions, asking for help, and admitting mistakes [16].…”

“…Furthermore, the authors have observed that students who feel psychologically safe on their teams have more fun, and that having fun is a large motivating factor for participating in design projects. Since the critical role of psychological safety has been studied across various fields, like healthcare, manufacturing, and organizational behavior ( [13,14]) and since teaming is a critical component of engineering education, more qualitative and quantitative work still needs to be done to understand how psychological safety affects the teaming experiences of marginalized students in engineering.…”