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Designing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Programs

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Angie Moussa, University of Massachusetts Lowell ; Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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constraints [23]. Therefore, simplyhaving a PM is not enough; students must be adequately trained in soft skills such ascommunication, teamwork, and management in order to ensure future successes. While PM is a promising career, many undergraduate students are not aware of thispromising career option and many institutions lack PM programs [24]. Those institutions that doteach PM to their students often cover PM as part of a larger lecture-based course or in dedicatedPM courses which are often theory based. Few institutions teach PM knowledge by offeringexperiential learning opportunities and oftentimes, the “soft skills” – like communication,teamwork, and leadership – that are necessary for successful PM are not directly taught in

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Designing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Programs

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John D. Stevens, The Pennsylvania State University ; Dena Lang, Pennsylvania State University; Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University; John Jongho Park; Paul Mittan, Penn State Engineering Leadership Development

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(Compton-Young, 2015).In order to be an effective leader, engineering students must develop both technical andnontechnical soft skills to provide an advantage in the workplace (Burton, 1996). In currentprograms, with their demanding engineering curriculums, students often don’t have the time orinclination to pursue business courses, which often include the professional skills that engineerslack (Compton-Young, 2015). In a survey conducted by EE Times, 77 percent of the engineersreported they have acted as team leaders and 83 percent have written reports for internal use(Kumar et al., 2007). With this understanding of how engineers can be successful, it is crucialthat they possess these skills prior to graduation (Kumar et al., 2007). With previous

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Career Advancement Through Engineering Leadership Development

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Mark Jason Luchini; David J. Cribbs, Jackson; Dirk Joel-Luchini Colbry, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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. Colbry also conducts research in computational education and high performance comput- ing. From 2009 until 2015, Dr. Colbry worked for the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (iCER) as a computational consultant and Director of the HPCC. Dr. Colbry collaborates with scientists from multiple disciplines including Engineering, Toxicology, Plant and Soil Sciences, Zoology, Mathematics, Statistics and Biology. Recent projects include research in Image Phenomics; developing a commercially-viable large scale, cloud based image pathology tool; and helping develop methods for measuring the Carbon stored inside of soil. Dr. Colbry has taught a range of courses, including; communication ”soft” skills, tools for computational

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Designing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Programs

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Ronald J. Bennett F.ABET, University of St. Thomas; Eugene Joseph Audette, University of St. Thomas; Elaine R. Millam, WorkWise Coaching & Consulting; Alanna K. Moravetz JD, Alanna Consulting LLC; Sheryl Niebuhr, University of St. Thomas and Sheryl Niebuhr Consulting LLC

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engineer it isn’t toooften that you get to work on Soft Skills” and, “My initial thought was positive because this wasone of the main reasons I transferred from a regional state university’s M.S. in RegulatoryAffairs (to get a) Master’s program with leadership skills….” and, “I was hoping to getsomething out of a course where I could evolve into a senior leadership position.”Question 4 What is your current response to the requirement to take the leadership courses? Response Number of Respondents Positive 45 Negative 1 Comments 15The survey gave the

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Designing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Programs

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Teresa J. Didiano, University of Toronto; Annie Elisabeth Simpson, Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto

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, 2021].[9] S. Kumar and J.K. Hsiao, “Engineers learn ‘soft skills the hard way’: Planting a seed of leadership in engineering classes,” Leadership Management Engineering, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 18–24, 2007.[10] National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century, Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2004.[11] M. Adams Viola. and R.J. Hannemann, “A leadership-focused engineering management master of science program,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, 2011, 22.3.1 - 22.3.17. [Online]. Available: https://cms.jee.org/17277. [Accessed: Jan 13, 2021].[12] S. Pitts, S. McGonagle, and S.W. Klosterman

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Designing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Programs

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Hyun Hannah Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Selim Havan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Charlotte Hathaway; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Mattox Alan Beckman, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Lucas Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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, ROTC, Theatre, Education, the college of engineering administration, and thealumni network, to enhance the integrative design in teaching many traditional “soft skills.”For example, our university’s leadership center has provided strengths assessment to ourstudents, and the ROTC has presented an interactive session in the area of leadership, withclassroom examples as well as real-world examples. Our Theatre department has taught ourstudents the physiology involved in establishing stage presence and effective vocal projection,which is beneficial in the classroom as well as the boardroom or factory floor. Our university’steaching and learning center has provided a specialist to teach rubric development andtheories of motivation, which can be

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Career Advancement Through Engineering Leadership Development

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Hwangbo Bae, University of Florida; Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida

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: So I think in a lot of ways that's…the complexity of the soft [professional] skills. And it's funny when we talk about soft skills. We don't mean that they're lesser than hard [technical] skills. It's that they're less definable.While Dr. James acknowledged the importance of teaching professional skills, he faceddifficulties in integrating these skills into the classroom because of their complexity and lack ofclarity. Due to the perceived challenges of including professional skills in the curriculum, out-of-class activities were offered as an important complement.Faculty members believed that students with experience outside the classroom are betterprepared for their careers through the acquisition of professional skills