Stream12. Teams Once Again – Wellbeing in Teams and Temporality of Work in Teams Engineering Team Work I

The tensions between the individual and the collective in engineering work practices are profound. Engineers’ self-­‐perception as well as the consensus of the research community point to the fact that engineering work practices are essentially collective work practices – predominantly performed as coordinated activities within collective work units such as teams, projects, etc. But the picture tends to be more complicated. Historically, scientific and technological work has been perceived as individual achievements – focused on the production of knowledge, the search for truth and the creation of technological successful operations and artifacts. Turning, more specifically, to engineering, scholarly work on the engineering profession has pointed to the tensions between the corporate / practical ideal and the professional / scientific ideal of engineering practice within the