Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Engineering Leadership

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven W Klosterman, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

Leadership Capability Spider Chart was used as a tool for feedback and self-assessment.Entering the program, supervisors and peers rate the student, and the student rates themself oneach of the capabilities, on a scale between 0 (“no competency”) and 10 (“acknowledgedmastery”). Upon completion of the program, this exercise was repeated.While change and improvement all of the 14 capabilities are collected, this paper concentrates onfive specific capabilities, targeted by exercises in the area of “developing a professionalnetwork.”5 Why networking in an engineering program?The value of developing a personal network has been a staple in leading business schools forover a generation as a method for building business relationships, sharing ideas and

Conference Session

Listening and Negotiation

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University; Kim LaScola Needy P.E., University of Arkansas; Cheryl B. Schrader, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Continuing Professional Development, Engineering Leadership Development Division, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

Professor NegotiationsCase 1: Starting offer at a top-ten engineering research programDr. Taylor Smith, having completed a two-year international post-doctoral experience at a majorinternational laboratory – and having proved worth by already having several externally fundedgrants in addition to numerous peer-reviewed papers, applied for two top-ten engineeringprogram assistant professor positions. The candidate was selected for campus interviews at eachplace, and the interview experiences consisted of the typical two full days of interview, includingbreakfasts, lunches and dinners, with various combinations of faculty, graduate students and staff– rigorous interviews designed to vet future colleagues for their ability to take on the research

Conference Session

Student and Other Views on Engineering Leadership

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

engineering leader, and why?” After two minutes ofreflective writing, students were grouped by common communication styles (see above) andasked to discuss their papers and to come to a consensus on the dimension that each group feltmost important. These were shared with the class, discussed, and captured on the chalkboard.Design Applications CardsApplication cards prompt students to think about possible applications, connect newly learnedconcepts with prior knowledge, and see more clearly the possible relevance of what they arelearning16. In this study, application cards were used on the last day of class as part of the reviewfor the final exam. As part of the review, the instructor provided notes on the chalkboard thatincluded a flowchart of the

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

  organization  its leadership  and reflexive Used with permission from CRC/Taylor and Francis Group, New York.6 In Crandall’s 2006 book, Leadership Lessons from West Point, Sean Hannah reflects somewhattongue in cheek about ‘spotlight Rangers.’ These are young Army Rangers-in-training who doand say exactly the right thing when the instructor is around, but who act irregularly otherwise.The spotlight Ranger represents true Ranger values only when the spotlight is on him, but asHannah says, he is soon found out, rejected through peer-evaluations and washed out of Rangerschool.Hannah further notes: “[Authentic leaders] are highly aware of social cues and followers needs, expectations, and desires. This

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

were in an influential position to help undergraduates understand the importance of leadership to their careers and that it was important for these students to see leadership in an engineering context. It is a point of concern that only 18% felt engineering educators were well qualified to teach leadership to their students.  58% of the high importance group thought that at least half of their peers would agree that EL is of high importance. By comparison the group that thought EL was of little importance felt significantly less confident that their opinion was in the social norm, with only 15% thinking that at least half their peers would agree with their position (Fisher’s exact

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Engineering Leadership Development Division

were asked to answer questions regarding all of theengineering/technical leadership programs utilized at their university (i.e., includes all degrees,minors, certificates and other coursework). The questions asking about all program componentsexamined areas such as team-based applied projects, leadership coursework, mentorship, andcorporate sponsorship. Several items provided open-ended text boxes that allowed participants todescribe unique features of their programs (We elaborate on the open-ended responses in theconclusions section)Results We used IBM SPSS to calculate frequencies of the data collected. The results section willfeature frequency tables for each item followed by a brief write-up describing key findings.Further

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Engineering Leadership

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary B. Vollaro, Western New England University; Robert R. Klein, Western New England University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

professionalsettings.The beauty of working with the football team is the critical nature of peer leadership on thesquad, so instrumental to success. Since the team wins or loses each week, there are immediateresults to assess performance. With a different opponent each week, there is always a need tomake new adjustments, and for captains to play a role in preparing the position players toperform well. In addition, there were ten first-year engineers on the football team, part of thenew crop of ‘rookies’. This enabled us to also examine their experience with the KGI/MBTItraining model in our seminar, and see how it might begin to connect to their involvement withthe team.So our study looks at two different populations of engineers, highlighted by our three upper