Higgs, C. F., & Karwowski, K., & Van Kleeck, D. A., & Phalen, T. E., & Moran, G., & Wright, C., & Hennessy, J. P. (2019, June), The Challenges of Developing Engineering Management and Leadership Curriculum for Students Planning RIPE careers  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--33375

\bibitem{asee_peer_33375}
  Higgs, C. F., \& Karwowski, K., \& Van Kleeck, D. A., \& Phalen, T. E., \& Moran, G., \& Wright, C., \& Hennessy, J. P. (2019, June), \emph{The Challenges of Developing Engineering Management and Leadership Curriculum for Students Planning RIPE careers}
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--33375

C. Fred  Higgs III, Kaz Karwowski, David Allen Van Kleeck, Thomas Edward Phalen Jr., Gayle Moran, Cesare Wright, and James Philip Hennessy.  "The Challenges of Developing Engineering Management and Leadership Curriculum for Students Planning RIPE careers".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/33375 Internet.  16 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_33375}
  C. Fred  Higgs III, Kaz Karwowski, David Allen Van Kleeck, Thomas Edward Phalen Jr., Gayle Moran, Cesare Wright, and James Philip Hennessy.
  "The Challenges of Developing Engineering Management and Leadership Curriculum for Students Planning RIPE careers".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/33375 Internet.  16 Apr, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Increasingly, engineering management and leadership programs and initiatives are seeing broad ranges of students interested in pursuing grand challenge and blue sky type opportunities to ‘change the world’ without possessing the confidence and skillsets to lead the teams and organization that must execute the complex and often large project work of technology research and/or development.  Students who possess the ability to manage budgets, solve technical problems, and apply basic business principles in an effort to develop a product or solution may become adept engineering managers. However, those students who can inspire the team to complete and deploy these products and solutions in a way where the whole team’s productivity is greater than the sum of the expertise of each individual team member can become engineering leaders. Engineering leadership programs at research universities often have the challenging problem of developing curriculum for students, who typically seek rigorous engineering degrees in a way that entices these students to gain the skills their institutions hope will enable them to graduate as technology and societal leaders.  One major barrier that often arises are the faculty in the traditional engineering departments distinguishing such training as “hard” vs. “soft” engineering training. Thus, without a curriculum mandate, most undergraduate engineering students do not automatically choose courses or credential-bearing programs with engineering leadership and management training in them. Further, students who pursue careers outside of the mainstream engineering industry pathways, such as research or entrepreneurship, often do not automatically see or gain exposure to the leadership or management examples and experiences that align with these other career tracks. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to introduce the approach that Rice University’s Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) undertook to revamp and develop a new credentialed curriculum in engineering leadership aimed at students with broad career interests. There are two facets of this new certificate program, and it aims to create a viral experience that attracts an increasing number of engineering undergraduates over the next decade. First, RCEL will provide a rich, focused suite of fundamental engineering leadership development courses. Numerous core competencies, such as communication, decision-making, and self-leadership remained, but the curriculum has also been augmented with new competencies in project management and engineering ethics to ensure that RCEL students graduate with a mission-minded drive to lead and help organizations flourish. The second facet of the certificate requires each RCEL student to choose one of four career directions he/she is likely to pursue after graduation. These are research, industry, pathways that are non-engineering, and entrepreneurship (RIPE). The efforts to design this new curriculum and revamp our program will be presented, along with the future challenges we anticipate to scaling these efforts to the full engineering student population.
AU  - C. Fred  Higgs III
AU  - Kaz Karwowski
AU  - David Allen Van Kleeck
AU  - Thomas Edward Phalen Jr.
AU  - Gayle Moran
AU  - Cesare Wright
AU  - James Philip Hennessy
CY  - Tampa, Florida
DA  - 2019/06/15
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TI  - The Challenges of Developing Engineering Management and Leadership Curriculum for Students Planning RIPE careers
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