Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Skills Development Across the Undergraduate-to-Workforce Transition

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea Chan, Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead); Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Emily Moore P.Eng., University of Toronto; Milan Maljkovic, Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering; Emily Macdonald-Roach

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Engineering Leadership Development

, learners who practice theconceptual tools in “authentic” community (i.e., the community in which the tools were meantfor use), “…build an increasingly rich implicit understanding of the world in which they use thetools and of the tools themselves. The understanding, both of the world and of the tool,continually changes as a result of their interaction”[15]; the implication for leadership learningbeing that the more we practice leadership skills in a variable workplace context, the deeper theunderstanding we attain on leadership and our work.Although critical leadership learning can happen through course-based team work and co-curricular activities such as student clubs and teams, such learning remains rooted in the cultureof classrooms and post