Conference Session

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

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Julie Dyke Ford, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Engineering Leadership Development

experience and the entry-level demands of the first six months in the workplace. Capstone design, as the culmination of anundergraduate program is one of the key places for creative leadership in the curriculum. Theresults of the study support the Capstone course as one of the major design experiences in thecurriculum.Once Capstone students graduate, the entry-level roles they have in the first six months’transition and the type of entry-level leadership that is required shifts even more heavily to theControl quadrant than in Capstone. Here, new employees are less likely to be asked to makemajor management contributions and are more likely to be expected to learn to act as newprofessionals, who monitor and coordinate the individual tasks they have

Conference Session

Creating Impactful Learning Experiences for Engineering Leaders

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Michael Aucoin, Leading Edge Management, LLC; Dennis Arthur Conners

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Engineering Leadership Development

a solid connection between the use of CLDs and leadershipdevelopment. The role of analyzing systems is to promote agency [39], that is to act upon the results of theanalysis and in so doing improve the situation. A fundamental element of leadership is action.Senge underscores this theme with the choice of the title in one of his book sections, “How OurActions Create Our Reality… And How We Can Change It” [3, loc. 145].Course Overview Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, USA offers an online Master of Arts degree inOrganizational Leadership (ORGL). One of the core courses for this degree is OrganizationalTheory and Behavior (ORGL 615). This course design incorporates a heavy emphasis on asystems thinking approach to leadership and