Assessment of shortfall: A board game on environmental decisionmaking

Abstract

Significant disparities in the learning styles of millennial students (students born after 1980) and those of their instructors have been documented. Shortfall is a board game designed to raise awareness of the concept of environmental decisionmaking in the supply chain. The project explores the hypothesis that millennial engineering students approach learning in a communal, active manner using trial and error approaches. Results of this pilot exploratory project suggest that engineering students are able to learn new information in a collaborative game approach, which impacts their confidence and self-awareness of their knowledge base. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2006.