Bringing it all together for Successful Convergence Research

What are the elements that bring teams together and contribute to successful team functioning—and what are the elements that get in the way and can impede team success? In this presentation, team science expert L. Michelle Bennett provides advice and insights on how researchers can build and manage successful convergent research teams. Bennett touches upon specific topics including: grant proposal preparation; key processes that enable team success; the phases of team development; the importance of forming diverse teams; the mutual learning approach to smart teams; and the skills of effective leaders. Speaker: L. Michelle Bennett, Director of the Center for Research Strategy, National Institutes of Health (NIH) This talk was presented at the 2018 Accelerating Engineering Research Center Preparedness Workshop on October 2, 2018. This workshop was supported by NSF award EEC-1748840, NSF Engineering Education and Centers: Stewarding a Community of Scholars, Leaders, and Innovators. For more information about the workshop, visit: https://ercbiennial.asee.org/2018-pgw