Abstract

Nowadays, the engineering curriculum has a strong emphasis on teamwork skills. Improving teaming skills among engineering students reduce the time and budget that engineering manager should spend on new engineers' training. However, students for learning proper teaming practices should work in the effective teams, and for making teams effective, we should have a good team climate. Cohesion is one of the team climates which have taken much attention in organizational behavioral psychology but not in many studies in engineering education. Cohesion in teams includes task commitment, interpersonal relationship, and task attraction. In this study, we used backward stepwise multilinear regression to predict team member effectiveness based on three dimensions of cohesion. Task attraction was the only dimension that significantly predicts the team member's effectiveness, showing that if engineering students enjoy and like the teaming task, they will have higher effectiveness in teams. Implications and future directions are provided in the paper.