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Engineering Leadership Competency and Skill Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Lupanow, Harvey Mudd College; Donald S. Remer PhD, PE, Harvey Mudd College

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California.Prof. Donald S. Remer PhD, PE, Harvey Mudd College Donald S. Remer, PhD, PE, was the Oliver C. Field Professor of Engineering Economics and Management at Harvey Mudd College when this project was initiated. He has a B.S.E. from the University of Michigan and a MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Business Economics from Caltech. He has been a Clinic Advisor on over 60 engineering clinic projects during his 42 years at Harvey Mudd. He is also the President of the Claremont Consulting Group, which does short course training, coaching, and consulting in the areas of business case analysis, cost estimation, and project management. His clients range from small entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies

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Literature and Research Perspectives on Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jeffery M. Plumblee II, The Citadel; Andrew Michael Erdman, The Pennsylvania State University

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Directors, President’s Club, Nittany Lion Club, ASEE, ASME, AIAA, AKC, GRCA. He has been honored with a LMC/KAPL Leadership Award, GE Phillippe Award, PSEAS Outstanding service award, Jaycee International Senatorship, and an ESM Centennial Fellowship. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Using a Systematic Review to Identify Leadership Competency Needs Across Engineering DisciplinesBackgroundSince ABET and industry began calling for leadership and professional skill development inengineering students in the early 2000’s, the literature involving engineering education andtraining has evolved to include a variety of studies and articles to address this gap in

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Literature and Research Perspectives on Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James N Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto

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involved pilot testing and refining concise, generalized measures of the variables ofinterest. The leadership role confidence and risk orientation measures presented in this sectionwere designed based on the literature, tested in advance with a smaller sample of 99 respondents,and then refined based on pilot test respondent feedback about clarity. We believe this approachaligns with this paper’s scope of testing unifying hypotheses that support and generalize uponprior findings.In conceptualizing a leadership confidence variable, we utilize a “role confidence” approachsimilar to Cech et al.’s measurement of confidence toward achieving professional outcomes [40].We designed our measure as a means of differentiating among students who felt they were

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Poster Session - Engineering Leadership Development Division

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robyn Paul, University of Calgary; Arindom Sen, University of Calgary; Emily Wyatt, University of Calgary: Schulich School of Engineering

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ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2010.[3] M. Klassen, D. Reeve, C. Rottmann, R. Sacks, A. E. Simpson, and A. Huynh, “Charting the Landscape of Engineering Leadership Education in North American Universities,” in American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, 2016.[4] R. Paul and L. Cowe Falls, “Engineering leadership education: A review of best practices,” in American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, 2015.[5] National Academy of Engineering, The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2005.[6] E. F. Crawley, J. Malmqvist, S. Östlund, and D. R

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Komarek, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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leadership theoryin engineers’ professional identities,” Leadership, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 351–373, 2015.[10] G. Warnick, J. Schmidt, and A. Bowden, “An experiential learning approach to developleadership competencies in engineering and technology students,” presented at the ASEE AnnualConference and Exposition, Indianapolis, 2014.[11] O. Pierrakos, M. Borrego, and J. Lo, “Assessing learning outcomes of senior mechanicalengineers in a capstone design experience,” in American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, HI, 2007.[12] K. S. Cameron, R. E. Quinn, J. DeGraff, and A. V. Thakor, Competing Values Leadership,2nd ed. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2014.[13] K. A. Lawrence, P. Lenk, and R. E

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Engineering Leadership Competency and Skill Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Engineering Leadership Competency and Skill Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas at El Paso; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Kate Roach, UCL; Emanuela Tilley, University College London; Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University

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development of a host of professional, interpersonal, andpersonal skills [8]. While these programs were developed independently of Rottmann et al.’s2015 work, there is a convergence between the explicit and implicit models of leadership thatemerge from these four programs, Rottmann et al.’s model, and other recent models ofengineering leadership, as discussed further below.The four programs that serve as case studies here have curricula that were developed, inengineering leadership and more broadly, from a similar starting point: careful consideration ofthe skills and abilities required of 21st-century engineering graduates in response to calls forengineering education reform from professional engineering bodies over the preceding decade.For example

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Literature and Research Perspectives on Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University; Brett Tallman P.E., Montana State University

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programs tend to focus on leadership asa set of skills or experiences bolted onto a traditional engineering education with limited formalevidence of the impact these experiences have on student development.The purpose of this study is to test the effect of experiences engineering students have in leadershiproles on their perceived gains in leadership skills, using a national dataset. The framework guidingthis study is a model for engineering leadership identity constructed from Lave and Wenger’scommunities of practice model and Komives et al.’s model for leadership identity development(LID) which recognizes that the engineering formation process is, at its core, an identitydevelopment process. Engineering leadership is theorized to develop from

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Engineering Leadership Competency and Skill Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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environmental [8], chemical [3], and mechanical engineers [9], as well ascivil engineering technologists [11]. International standards for engineering education alsoendorse the importance of leadership [12].Table 1. Summaries of Disciplinary Bodies of Knowledge in Engineering Engineering Number outcomes Leadership-Related Outcome(s) Discipline(s) [reference] All engineering 30: foundational (3), 24. Leadership: “move a team or group into new areas; professionals technical (16), identify the individuals and groups that could be positively or [2] professional (11) negatively affected by the change and describe those impacts to each of the

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Werner Zorman, Harvey Mudd College

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intrapersonal and interpersonal skill development, diversity andinclusion, group dynamics, and group development.The students frequently reported how concepts like the SBI feedback model [38] have supportedthem greatly with the development of their intrapersonal and interpersonal skills. The SBI modelhelps deliver more effective feedback because the students focus their feedback on specificsituations (S) and behaviors (B), and then outline the impact (I) that these behaviors had on them. “I adore the SBI model. Using it forces me to rethink the situation before sharing feedback which gives me an opportunity to evaluate exactly what the impact on me really was. Secondly, I have found that people are more receptive to the feedback

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Literature and Research Perspectives on Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Lamb P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Werner Zorman, Harvey Mudd College; Alicia M. Kinoshita, San Diego State University; Natalie Mladenov, San Diego State University

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. Policysciences, 4(2), 155-169.[15] Heifetz, R. A. (1994). Leadership without easy answers (Vol. 465). Harvard UniversityPress.[16] Bass, B. M. (1990). From transactional to transformational leadership: Learning to share thevision. Organizational dynamics, 18(3), 19-31.[17] R. Lingard & S. Barkataki (2011). Teaching teamwork in engineering and computerscience. In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2011 (pp. F1C-1). IEEE.[18] Kuh, G. D. (2008). Excerpt from high-impact educational practices: What they are, who hasaccess to them, and why they matter. Association of American Colleges and Universities.[19] Warnick, G. M., Schmidt, J., & Bowden, A. (2014). An experiential learning approach todevelop leadership competencies in engineering and

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech; Nicholas Anthony Clegorne; Cassandra J McCall, Virginia Tech

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principles and trends), this participant rated them 16, 17, 15, 8, and 3 outof 100, respectively. The variation in faculty responses, as shown in Figure 3, promptedquestions regarding the potential role and impact that faculty training, development, and supportprograms may have on faculty knowledge of leadership; the source(s) of prior faculty training;and the potential alignment between industry and academia regarding these competencies. Figure 3: Faculty agreement with industry for selected competenciesWe recognize that, as a qualitative data collection instrument, these survey responses werelimited and devoid of context. However, aligning with our conceptual framework, weacknowledge that such responses are imbued with a variety of contextual

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky; Thomas Ward Lester, University of Kentucky; Joseph Anthony Colella, University of Kentucky College of Engineering

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Education: A Review of Best Practices” 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 14-17, 2015, Seattle, Washington, USA.[6] Bayless, David J. and T. Richard Robe, “Leadership Education for Engineering Students”, ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Washington DC, Oct 27-30, 2010.[7] Farr, J. V., & Brazil, D. M. (2009). Leadership skills development for engineers. Engineering Management Journal, 21(1), 3–8.[8] Farr, J. V., Walesh, S. G., & Forsythe, G. B. (1997). Leadership development for engineering managers. Journal of Management in Engineering, 13(4), 38–41.[9] Goodale, M. J. (2005). The right stuff: Traits and skills of effective leaders. Leadership and Management in

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Literature and Research Perspectives on Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Mike Klassen, University of Toronto; Serhiy Kovalchuk, University of Toronto; Qin Liu, University of Toronto; Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto; Madeleine Santia

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must make space for Unless engineers recognize the socio-(s) professional, communication engineers’ multiple, technical nature of their field, it will and interpersonal skills to divergent career paths— be difficult for them to think of complement their technical technical, managerial, themselves as leaders and accept their training. project management, professional responsibilities. entrepreneurial & hybrid.Data sources -Industry Surveys -Longitudinal surveys -Organizational