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Understanding the Perceived Impact of Engineers’ Leadership Experiences in College

Conference Session
Literature and Research Perspectives on Engineering Leadership Development
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University; Brett Tallman P.E., Montana State University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Leadership Development
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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Faculty Ways of Knowing, Valuing, and Assessing Leadership in the Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum

Conference Session
Assessment of Engineering Leadership Development
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech; Nicholas Anthony Clegorne; Cassandra J McCall, Virginia Tech
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Leadership Development
Paper ID #24085Faculty Ways of Knowing, Valuing, and Assessing Leadership in the Under-graduate Engineering CurriculumDr. Cassandra J. Groen, Virginia Tech Dr. Cassandra Groen is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Engineering Education and the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech. Her primary research interests include pro- fessional identity formation in undergraduate civil engineering students, grounded theory methods, and theory development. Her current work includes the exploration of professional identity formation in civil engineering students who experience disabilities and the ways in
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