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Perceived Importance of Leadership in their Future Careers Relative to Other Foundational, Technical and Professional Skills among Senior Civil Engineering Students

Conference Session
Engineering Leadership Competency and Skill Development
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Leadership Development
, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Perceived Importance of Leadership in their Future Careers Relative to Other Foundational, Technical and Professional Skills among Senior Civil Engineering StudentsAbstractMany demands are placed on undergraduate students to possess a broad range of foundational,technical, and professional knowledge and skills when they graduate. Expectancy value theory(EVT) indicates that students will be more motivated to learn topics that they believe will beimportant in their future, due to utility value. Self-efficacy beliefs also contribute to learning.Given this framework, the research
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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
college andstudent demographic characteristics, as well as aspects of the college environment and otherexperiences during college that also affect development. The review of the literature on factorsthat affect leadership development, presented next, is organized according to this framework.Demographics and leadershipStudents arrive to college with a variety of characteristics and experiences shown to influence theirleadership development before college. Gender in particular has been shown to affect leadershipattributes in a number of ways and is a source of extensive research [32], even if findings in thisareas are not entirely uniform [33]. For example, male leaders report greater self-efficacy, whilefemale leaders demonstrate higher competency
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Engineering Students and Group Membership: Patterns of Variation in Leadership Confidence and Risk Orientation

Conference Session
Literature and Research Perspectives on Engineering Leadership Development
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
James N Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Leadership Development
conceptualizations and measures of leadership confidence and risk orientation. Somestudies of leadership applied to students, for example, use a self-efficacy approach [16, 17] oremploy broad multi-dimensional assessment instruments [18], while others use more focusedmeasures of certain skills or abilities [19, 20]. Our data collection was subject to practicalconstraints that led us to employ simple, generalized measures, as described in the Methodssection alongside a more detailed discussion of the rationales behind our conceptualization ofthese variables.Literature ReviewResearch suggests that students’ confidence in their leadership abilities correlate with theirparticipation in various voluntary student groups or activities, such as athletics
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Convergent Approaches for Developing Engineering Leadership in Undergraduates

Conference Session
Engineering Leadership Competency and Skill Development
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
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
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Leadership Development
involving students in curriculum development and teaching through Peer Designed Instruction.Prof. Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering Debbie Chachra is a Professor of Engineering at Olin College of Engineering. Her education-related research interests include self-efficacy, design, intrinsic motivation, and gender. She speaks and consults on curricular design, student-centered learning, and gender and STEM.Dr. Kate Roach, UCLMrs. Emanuela Tilley, University College LondonDr. Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University Dr. Kyle Gipson is an Associate Professor at James Madison University (United States) in the Department of Engineering (Madison Engineering) and the Director of the Madison Engineering Leadership Program
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