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Curriculum Development in Engineering Leadership

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Bayless, Ohio University

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Capstone Leadership Project and the S-Triangle Pedagogy to Guide Engineering Leadership Development EducationAbstractThis paper presents the methodology for teaching leadership development using an overarchingcapstone project to inform the teaching/learning of the understanding self, style, and situation,also known as the leadership “S-triangle.” In this model, the “needs of instruction” for executionof the capstone leadership project are delivered on a just-in-time basis to reinforce leadershipdevelopment. While the study of leadership styles and characteristics, understanding of self, andsituational strategies is not unique, the integrated approach guided by a capstone project hasquantifiably improved student self-reported

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Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto; Mike Klassen, Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve, University of Toronto

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to lead outside the formal curriculum    AbstractLeadership has historically been part of professional engineers’ work life, but until recently itwas not integrated into the formal engineering curriculum. With the support of the NationalAcademy of Engineering and Engineers Canada along with regulatory pressures from theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology and the Canadian EngineeringAccreditation Board, committed engineering educators with ties to industry have begun to takeup this curricular challenge in greater numbers. Unfortunately, many of these programs touchonly a small segment of the student body because they remain on the periphery of engineeringfaculties. As a result, we know little about the

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Curriculum Development in Engineering Leadership

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Niño, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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. This is a very important point to emphasize, especially for engineeringstudents who are drawn to quantitative data and who tend to be less comfortable with qualitativedata and analyses. Hence, this “set up” for a discussion on analyzing the stories they receivedfrom their respondents is critical to a successful implementation of this exercise. Otherwise,students will take the “path of least resistance” and base most of their paper on the quantitativeassessments described below.When I introduce this phase, I spend a few minutes describing how strengths are holisticallydefined in this exercise (summarized on a PowerPoint) 16. Strengths are an integration of our (a)self-identities, which is how we express ourselves in a given situation, (b

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Curriculum Development in Engineering Leadership

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven W Klosterman, Northeastern University

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professional network.Networking has been long highlighted as an essential skill in finding a job11,12, but lessemphasized as part of an ongoing process of staying current, staying connected and stayingrelevant in one’s areas of knowledge and expertise. Benefits cited include13: 1. Gaining solid ground in the current operational state in which the engineer operates, even just within his or her own firm, significantly improves the ability to understand how every part of the organization contributes to the success of the company. 2. The pace of technology advances in every area of engineering increases, integration of these technologies across disciplines becomes more possible, sophisticated, existing technologies rapidly

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Student and Other Views on Engineering Leadership

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary; Robyn Paul, University of Calgary; Stephanie Hladik, University of Calgary; Marcela P Rodriguez, University of Calgary; Laleh Behjat P.Eng., University of Calgary; Lynne Gradon Cowe Falls P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Paper ID #17141Impact of an Extracurricular Activity Funding Program in Engineering Ed-ucationMs. Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary Emily Marasco is a Ph.D. student at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on creativity and cross-disciplinary curriculum development for engineering students as well as for K-12 and community outreach programs.Robyn Paul, University of Calgary Robyn is a Master’s student researching engineering leadership education at the University of Calgary. She graduated from Manufacturing Engineering in 2011 and worked in industry for a few years before returning to school.Ms

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mike Klassen, Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve, University of Toronto; Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto; Annie Elisabeth Simpson, Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University of Toronto; Amy Huynh, Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University of Totonto

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product development in an engineering context, with an industry- based project, and integrated leadership labs. Incoming students have an average of five years of industry experience.Iowa State Iowa State University offers university-wide Certificates and MinorsUniversity (2009) in Leadership. These include a series of linked 1-credit courses, a project and leadership electives. Engineering students have access to both, and take the same core courses but have engineering specific leadership course electives. Leadership is also explicitly integrated into the graduate attributes of the Construction Engineering program.Southern SMU’s

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fu Zhongli, National University of Defense Technology; Huang Zhang, NUDT in China; Tong Wu, Center for National Security and Strategic Studies (CNSSS), National University of Defense Technology (NUDT); Lini ZHOU, Center for National Security and Strategic Studies, National University of Defense Technology; Jianchuan Li, National University of Defense Technology; Lian Lin, National University of Defense Technology; wang yang, Continuing Education College, National University of Defense Technolgy(NUDT)

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face of constraints or obstacles, resourcefulness and flexibility, trustand loyalty in a team setting, and the ability to relate to others”8 (p.1). The CDIO Syllabusdefined engineering leadership as “the role of helping to organize effort, create vision, andfacilitate the work of others” (p.68)9. It is clearly stated that leadership is not orthogonal tothe remainder of the engineering curriculum, but rather there is an extensive amount ofoverlap between leadership skills and the other engineering skills9. More studyoperationalized leadership, change, and synthesis within the context of engineering education,it may help to define learning outcomes and competencies for engineering leadershipprograms3,10.Some research grouped three main themes

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Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adjo A Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Reginald DesRoches, Georgia Institute of Technology; Susan E Burns P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology; Laurence J. Jacobs, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janille A Smith-Colin P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology; Wes Wynens, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lisa Gail Rosenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology

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five courses,attend a leadership seminar series, and complete an international work-based, research-based orstudy-based experience. The minor courses are taught by faculty in the College of Engineeringincluding in-house communications faculty; the School of Public Policy; the Institute’sLeadership Education and Development (LEAD) Program, and executive-level engineeringpractitioners. The pedagogy model integrates leadership instruction into the broader context ofglobal societal grand challenges such as water availability and quality, air quality, urbanization,megaprojects, disasters, transportation, cities and sustainable development. A number of courseshave embedded study abroad experiences to foster global awareness, cross-cultural

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Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dean H. Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andrew Michael Erdman, The Pennsylvania State University; Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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in a curriculum underconstant pressure to cover broadening technical fields. Often these leadership courses areoffered as options on top of existing requirements, resulting in students taking additional credits,at significant cost to them. The Engineering Leadership Development (ELD) Program at Penn State University hasoffered an 18 credit minor in Engineering Leadership Development for over 20 years, with over600 graduates. While approximately two times that many students have benefitted by takingcourses in engineering leadership during that period, it still represents a fraction of the more than20,000 who have graduated from the College of Engineering in the same time span. Further,anecdotal evidence has shown that, while many

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luisa Ruiz Mendoza, University of Texas - El Paso; Leonardo Orea-Amador, University of Texas - El Paso; Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas - El Paso

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Challenge. Particularly, participants prominently improved theirencouragement skills. Only the Challenge attribute displayed divergent improvements.Introduction Leadership traits are not always emphasized in the engineering curriculum of highereducation institutions. Once in college, if a student starts an engineering program, leadershipopportunities are typically only available through extracurricular activities or internships1. This islargely because traditional engineering programs are not able to accommodate specific coursesthat foster leadership traits in their degree plan. This lack of curriculum integration can often beattributed to the topic’s perceived complexity and the growth in the number of required corecourses that subsequently

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary L. Winn, West Virginia University; Jeremy M. Slagley, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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suggests thatthere are ways to understand organizational culture and how, by extension, an organization’sleaders act with regard to its culture.2Schein defines culture as, "a pattern of shared basic assumptions learned by a group as it solvedits problems of external adaptation and internal integration, which has worked well enough to beconsidered valid, and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive,think, and feel in relation to those problems."2 Using Schein as a guide, a culture then is nothingmore than a collection of habits and values which are created as a byproduct of reaching theorganization’s goals, and then passed on to subordinates who are members of the unit. Largeorganizations have complex cultures because

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University

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, the paper identifies biographicalinformation common to those who appear to be most engaged in the topic and compares it toexisting national faculty profiles. These findings are augmented through national survey ofengineering faculty. The survey investigated faculty perceptions on the importance ofengineering leadership development and the manner faculty think these materials should beincorporated in engineering curricula. These perceptions are investigated with respect toparticipant’s backgrounds and experiences outside the academy. This work will be of interest toboth faculty building commitment for and materials supporting integration of engineeringleadership in the curriculum and the engineering leadership profession.IntroductionMany of

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Student and Other Views on Engineering Leadership

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dena Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andrew Michael Erdman, The Pennsylvania State University

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of a body of leadershipliterature that relates leadership performance to an ability to be accurately self-aware ofleadership capabilities25-26. Engineering leadership programs are also noting the importance ofincorporating self-awareness into program curriculum or training programs27-28. In a study todetermine behavioral frameworks for highly effective technical executives in NASA, self-awareness emerged as an integral part of the relational competency category29. The importanceof self-awareness demonstrated in these studies is evidence of the need to ensure leadershipdevelopment interventions intended to build self-awareness are incorporated into engineeringleadership development programs26. Further, effective interventions should include

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua C. Palmer, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale; Kenneth D. Birchler, Southern Illinois University; Joseph David Narusis, Southern Illinois University; Rhonda K Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale; Bruce DeRuntz, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

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) and workplace behaviors. Other research interests include the use of political skill and interpersonal mistreatment in the workplace. Joshua’s post-graduation plans include pursuing a career as a Researcher and Professor in the College of Business at a research- oriented university.Mr. Kenneth D. Birchler, Southern Illinois UniversityMr. Joseph David Narusis, Southern Illinois UniversityDr. Rhonda K Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale Rhonda K. Kowalchuk is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). She also serves as the Director of Applied Research Consultants in the Department of Psychology at SIUC. She received her B.A. (Hons., 1990), M.A

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Student and Other Views on Engineering Leadership

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina

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from a Student Perspective?AbstractThis paper investigates student perceptions of the relationships between social media,engineering, and leadership. Participants in this study consisted of freshmen engineeringstudents enrolled in a first-semester introduction to engineering course at the University of SouthCarolina. A grounded theory approach was used, in which instructional activities and datacollection processes occurred concurrently, were guided by one another, and developed over thecourse of the study. The phrase “social media engineering leadership” is developed within thispaper to include social media mediated communication within an engineering leadership context.The results of this study suggest that social media engineering