This paper discusses a Canadian-made online cloud-based personality assessment tool, and its application in a first-year engineering design course at a large private US university. The motivation for this study is to develop an automated approach to maximizing diversity during team formation at the first-year level, while encouraging learning about differences in personality and their effect on teams. The study found that the CLUES software being used was a step towards greater understanding of

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... differences, and that students who used the knowledge of personality during the team formation phase reported a greater sense of inclusivity.