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Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anton E. Bowden, Brigham Young University; Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University

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inBrigham Young University’s College of Engineering and Technology has integrated theleadership curriculum into its individual graduation requirements for seniors graduating in 2014and beyond. Early adopting departments now have several years of experience. Enrollment inthe required sophomore Leadership Foundations course has risen from several dozen students toroughly 1,000 students annually including approximately 20 percent student participation fromoutside the college since it is an approved General Education course. This paper presents thelongitudinal evolution of the curriculum in response to faculty concerns, student interest andexperience levels, and departmental constraints.Introduction and BackgroundLeadership skill development has become

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Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tim G. Kotnour, University of Central Florida; Charles H. Reilly, University of Central Florida; John A. Selter, University of Central Florida

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Paper ID #10938Integrating Leadership Education into the Undergraduate Engineering Ex-perienceDr. Tim G Kotnour, University of Central Florida Tim Kotnour, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Kotnour partners with senior management teams to develop solutions for sustained performance excellence for their organization. He completed his doctorate in In- dustrial & Systems Engineering with an emphasis in Management Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. He is the Director of the UCF Engineering Leadership and Innovation Institute

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Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard J. Schuhmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; James N. Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Huttner-Loan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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continuumabstraction is an important foundation upon which this paper is premised: although leadership andmanagement are two different systems, leadership and management are related; leadership andmanagement are not entirely mutually exclusive and instead exist on a continuum; opportunities exist tofind leadership in management curriculum just as opportunities exist to find management in leadershipcurriculum; opportunities exist to effectively incorporate elements of leadership into managementcurriculum just as opportunities exists to effectively incorporate elements of management into aleadership curriculum.There is interest within the engineering leadership academic community to identify opportunities withinthe engineering curriculum for the integration of

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Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Kenny Feister, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Qin Zhu, Purdue University

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Paper ID #9937Leadership in Multidisciplinary Project Teams: Investigating the emergentnature of leadership in an engineering education contextMegan Kenny Feister, Purdue University Megan K. Feister is a doctoral candidate in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue Uni- versity. Her research focuses on organizational identity and socialization, team communication, ethical reasoning development and assessment, and innovation and design. Megan holds a B.A. in communica- tion from Saint Louis University and a M.A. in Organizational Communication from the University of Cincinnati.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue

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Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Joshua Schmidt, Brigham Young University; Anton E. Bowden, Brigham Young University

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his work investigating the role of ligaments as related to biomechanics of the lumbar spine. He is actively involved in the development and teaching of the integrated leadership, ethics, and globalization curriculum at BYU and was recently appointed Weidman Professor in Leadership. Page 24.157.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 An Experiential Learning Approach to Develop Leadership Competencies in Engineering and Technology StudentsAbstractThere is a shift occurring among many engineering and technology programs throughout theworld in the mode of

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Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amadin Osagiede, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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learning, and provide realism to students’ learning7,8.Despite these advantages, the use of cases in engineering undergraduate curriculum has beenlimited due to faculty’s lack of understanding in effectively linking cases to other course’smaterials5,9. To highlight some of the challenges and lessons learned, the author team used casesin a course that taught engineering leadership to undergraduates. These cases explore andengage student’s interpretations of the definition of engineering leadership as a repertoire of“exemplary attitudes, behaviors, and skills necessary for an engineer to be an effective leader”10.The course described is a core class engineering undergraduates are required to take to earn aminor in Engineering Leadership in the

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Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian J. Novoselich, Virginia Tech; David B. Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

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greater pool of professional skills, Russell and Yao 10summarize, “an engineer is hired for her or his technical skills, fired for poor people skills, andpromoted for leadership and management skills.” 10 Gerhart, Carpenter, Grunow, and Hayes 11exemplify this perspective in describing the lack of upward progression by Lawrence Techgraduates as the motivation for starting Lawrence Tech’s 4-year leadership curriculum for allundergraduate students.Because leadership has been identified as an important skill for successful engineers, the purposeof our study is to investigate undergraduate engineers’ leadership development. Moreover, weseek to characterize the degree of alignment on views of leadership across different stakeholdersrelated to

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Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew C. Hurt, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robert C. Deadman, Ivy Tech Community College; Jenny Daugherty, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel O. Lybrook, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation in the College of Technology at Purdue University.He has expertise in Human Resource Development and Curriculum Development. Page 24.973.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Pathways to Technology LeadershipAbstractTechnology-rich organizations need people who can pair technical knowledge, skills, andabilities with an ability to lead people. Organizations have historically focused on hiringemployees with either a strong technical competence or a strong leadership competence. The 21stcentury