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Curriculum in Engineering Leadership Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammadreza Ostadali Makhmalbaf, Virginia Tech; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech

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leading a team, and enhancement of students’ understanding of the ―big picture,‖ such asethical and social concerns relevant to the engineering field.13 In addition, Nelson et al. (2014)state that learning and practicing how to collaborate with other students and working in teams is amain objective of the capstone program.15 Regular team meetings every week are seen to beeffective in improving the team functions, eventually resulting in developing leadership skills.27The objectives of team meetings are to better monitor the fulfillment of assignments and worktasks, argue ideas and thoughts for questions associated with team projects and responsibilities,and authorize team members to provide work plans for the upcoming week.27Other literature

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Curriculum in Engineering Leadership Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clinton Stephens, Iowa State University; Katherine Lynn Friesen, College of Engineering, Iowa State University

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use two orthree workshop sessions focusing on the deconstruction of definitions and on the self-commitment plan. Integrating these workshops into introductory courses would work well.    Group Perspective     The group perspective engages students with team development activities where studentsapply what they are studying about group processes to in-class simulations. Together, groupscreate a team contract; develop a team purpose and norms, member roles, and team goals tosuccessfully complete the final project. Teams undergo mid-module and post-module 360evaluation reviews, where students evaluate self and team members, and the instructor evaluatesindividuals and the team as one unit. The group module is ideal for

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Bayless, Ohio University

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of their followers, as well as teach them why they make certaindecisions. Note that while students may think this effort is repetitive at first (e.g. one inventoryexercise is the same as another), if they are challenged to find the differences, they can criticallyunderstand the importance of each effort designed to help them learn more about themselves.The team concept is further built through multiple class interviews of visiting leaders. While theteambuilding is important to the capstone project, the immediate goal during the Fall seminar isfor the students to work together as a team in the interview of the visiting leader. It can beuncomfortable for students to ask probing and sometimes personal questions of noted leadersthat might wind

Conference Session

Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Victoria E. Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Gary Allen Gilot P.E., University of Notre Dame

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life of the surroundingcommunity. The program has three distinct yet interrelated curricular offerings, each targetedtowards participants at different levels of experience and mastery of leadership skills that drawfrom a common skills inventory and set of core values. These offerings are as follows:  Leadership Enhancements to Existing Undergraduate Courses: Project-based first-year engineering courses and senior capstone design courses have been enhanced to include leadership modules with the goal of introducing skills to make project teams more effective. A key focus is the role of self-awareness in effective leadership (and followership). While these projects may have external stakeholders, project scope is

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Dimitra Michalaka P.E., The Citadel

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Diversity

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the CEE Department. Development of professional skillsculminates in a civil engineering capstone class were students work on multidisciplinary teams toachieve common design project goals and communicate their engineering findings to aprofessional and public audience. Specific CEE courses that develop student professional skillsare identified in Table 2 and are further described in an accompanying matrix provided in Table3 that summarizes mapping of 28 course objectives to levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Courseobjectives are mapped to Bloom’s Taxonomy levels and provide a collective view of curriculummapping for professional skills development. Half, 14 of 28, of the course goals aligned withprofessional skills development are from Professional

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Student and Other Views on Engineering Leadership

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Agnew Trevey, Marquette University; Andrea L. Gorman, Marquette University; Kristina M. Ropella, Marquette University

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insolving problems. In this paper, we present curriculum design, early results andrecommendations from first year assessment of the program and plans for future programmaticelements and assessment.Students are accepted into the leadership program during sophomore year. The curriculum isdesigned to follow an intentional sequence of experiences that meet students’ developmentalreadiness and needs over the three years in the program. In each year, the student cohortsexplore one of three themes of the program (leading oneself, leading with others, or leadingtechnology and innovation) through a combination of three formal leadership courses, a varietyof experiential learning opportunities, and the completion of a capstone project. Uponcompletion of the

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth Lin Hartmann P.E., Iowa State University; Clinton Stephens, Iowa State University; Charles T. Jahren P.E., Iowa State University

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Paper ID #12326Surveying industry needs for leadership in entry-level engineering positionsBeth Lin Hartmann P.E., Iowa State University Beth L. Hartmann is a Lecturer of Construction Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU). A retired U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps officer (O-5), she currently teaches the design-build capstone course for civil and construction engineering students and the construction engineering learning community. Hartmann received her Bachelor of Art in Architecture and her Master or Science in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Construction Engineering and Management from ISU in 1989 and 1996

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Curriculum in Engineering Leadership Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robyn Paul, University of Calgary; Lynne Gradon Cowe Falls P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Minor Undergraduate courses + capstone 2005 Development Minor (ELDM) project [21] B.Sc. in Leadership University of Texas El Paso B.Sc. Degree Undergraduate 4 years Fall 2014 Engineering1 if the engineering leadership program is not run directly through the University’s engineering school (Institution may be embeddedwithin)2 the ELP program was a pilot program that began in Fall

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Curriculum in Engineering Leadership Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University; Meghan Daly, James Madison University; Cairo Jahan Lakil Sherrell, James Madison University; Thomas Atcheson Ware; Diane L. Foucar-Szocki, College of Education, James Madison University; Justin J. Henriques, James Madison University

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nanocomposites and engineering education. He was trained as a Manufacturing Process Specialist within the textile industry, which was part of an eleven- year career that spanned textile manufacturing to product development.Meghan Daly, James Madison University Senior Engineering Student and Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Engineering, James Madison University.Mr. Cairo Jahan, Lakil Sherrell, James Madison University I am a senior engineering student at James Madison University. I expect to graduate with a B.S. of engineering and a mathematics minor in May 2015. I am pursuing a career in systems, sustainable, or environmental engineering while continuing to grow professionally by aiding my capstone project team

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Student and Other Views on Engineering Leadership

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Graves Wolfinbarger, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma

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participating on those teams associatewith leaders and leadership. Team members strongly associated five categories of behavior withleadership: Ideal Behavior, Individual Consideration, Project Management, TechnicalCompetence, and Communication. Other leadership behaviors, including Collaboration, Training& Mentoring, Problem-Solving, Motivating Others, Delegation, and Boundary-Spanning, wereless consistently recognized, and some behaviors were valued more highly within one team thanthe other. When asked to define leadership, most team members ascribed to a mainstream view.A few team members revealed a more mature understanding of the nonpositional andcollectivistic aspects of leadership.BackgroundThe Jets and the Sharks are the largest engineering

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Louis, Purdue University; Amadin Osagiede, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Ahn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Karan Sharma, Purdue University

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EngineeringLeadership, and (3) Engineering Leadership Capstone) within the minor are developed andtaught in-house. The final requirement involves experiential learning engagement. Studentprogress and leadership development are tracked as they complete the requirements of the minor. The elective courses are classified into four concentrations: (1) communication, (2)ethics, (3) creativity and innovation, and (4) global and societal impact. The four concentrationareas were created following research about other engineering leadership programs and thecourses available to engineering students across the university. The ‘communication’concentration includes courses that focus on the development of students' professional skills andengagement with technical

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Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard J. Schuhmann, The Landing School; Andrew Michael Erdman, Pennsylvania State University; Jack V. Matson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dean H. Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jeffrey G. Soper, Montreux School of Business; Donald H. Horner Jr., Jacksonville University

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creation of a “CreativityMinor”. A cross-college committee was formed and the focus changed from creativity andinnovation to leadership, specifically leadership for engineers. The minor would help studentsdevelop the essential leadership skills necessary in engineering, including project management,working in teams, communication skills, global awareness, green engineering, and professionalethics.11 In 1995 the Plan was crystallized by the proposal for an Engineering LeadershipDevelopment Minor (ELDM) consisting of courses in leadership, organizational and businessskills, entrepreneurship, and a capstone course in science, technology and public policy.12Creativity and innovation, although the original focus of the proposed Minor and

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto, ILead; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto

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Education in Engineering (ILead) at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include engineering leadership, engineering ethics education, critical theory, teacher leadership and social justice teacher unionism.Dr. Robin Sacks, University of Toronto Dr. Sacks is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto teaching leadership and positive psychology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Robin also serves as the Director of Research for the Engineering Leadership Project at the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering which aims to identify how engineers lead in the workplace