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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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Engineering Leadership Development

exploreperceptions of faculty members’ role in teaching leadership education for engineering students[2].Literature reviewTo be competent in the workforce, engineering graduates are expected to demonstrate bothtechnical and professional skills. Prior work has suggested that students are expected to acquirebreadth in professional skills and depth in technical skills, developing T-shaped competencies fortheir careers [10]. These expectations suggest that the combination of professional skills andtechnical skills fosters students’ competitiveness in the job market and increases theiremployability. Employability is defined as “having a set of skills, knowledge, understanding andpersonal attributes that make a person more likely to choose and secure occupations

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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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Engineering Leadership Development

-run group whose objective is toinspire graduate students to develop their leadership skills as they contribute to the schoolcommunity and beyond. They realize their objective by empowering individuals, cultivating apositive environment, and making an impact. The group is led by an executive team of studentswho are passionate about personal growth and leadership. The team consists of two co-chairs,administrative directors, event coordinators, communication directors, treasurer, and webmaster.Each year, they host eight to ten events open to all graduate students and postdoctoral fellows,and typically reach between 250 to 500 participants. Some examples of events include panels onleading your career exploration, entrepreneurship, and law, skill

Conference Session

Career Advancement Through Engineering Leadership Development

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David Niño, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Engineering Leadership Development

important, but so too were several other stakeholders. These includedengineers in industry, engineering faculty, engineering school deans and administrators, scienceand technology faculty, ABET, employers in industry, and society as a whole. At the time, wedid not consider the specific needs of undergraduate versus graduate students, but I amdiscovering that there are meaningful differences among them in terms of curriculum design(same holds for educating professions from engineering and technology). This exercise ofprioritizing stakeholders is a strategic decision and I think considering “who is our customer”will help us strengthen our capacities for generating high quality publications.Three opportunitiesOne of the benefits of being an officer in

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Designing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Programs

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Harindra Rajiyah, California State University, Sacramento; Lorenzo M. Smith Ph.D., California State University, Sacramento; Susan L. Holl, College of Engineering & Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento

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Engineering Leadership Development

Paper ID #32323An Overview of the Hornet Leadership Program in the College ofEngineering & Computer Science at California State University, SacramentoDr. Harindra Rajiyah, California State University, Sacramento Dr. Harindra (Raj) Rajiyah’s career spans six organizations from Academia to Industry. He currently teaches as an adjunct faculty in the college of engineering & computer science at CSU. • Raj started his career at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta as an Assistant Professor in Engi- neering Science and Mechanics. He taught 5 undergraduate and graduate level courses, mentored graduate students and

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Innovative and Impactful Engineering Leadership Pedagogy

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Jena Shafai Asgarpoor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University; Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; John Brooks Slaughter P.E., University of Southern California; Meagan C. Pollock, Engineer Inclusion; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Monica Farmer Cox, Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development

to the welfare of people and societies. But thereare far too few institutions that are doing so. In addition, over 200 schools of engineering havepledged to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive in their enrollments at all levels and intheir hiring of staff, faculty, and administrators, but evidence of meaningful change is hard tofind. While there have been creditable increases in the numbers of women, there is still a paucityof African American, Latinx, and indigenous faculty members and graduate students inengineering in our major research universities.BackgroundThe work of engineering education is dedicated to making the world a better place. Aseducators, we are called to create classroom spaces that support this endeavor. The