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Designing and Implementing Leadership Development Experiences for Engineering Students

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Harold Ackler, Boise State University; Heidi Reeder, Boise State University; Abbey Louie

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Engineering Leadership Development

from the University of Oregon, an M.A. in communication from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in communication from Arizona State University.Mrs. Abbey Louie c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Integrating Professional Skills and Leadership into an Undergraduate Engineering ProgramBackgroundProfessional skills have gained traction as an essential component of engineering education. Thecase for such skills among graduates has come from engineering education research and programdevelopment [1, 2, 3, 4], as well as from industry [5, 6]. Rick Stephens, a retired Senior VicePresident of Human Resources and Administration at the Boeing Company, states that

Conference Session

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

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Dena Lang, Pennsylvania State University; Travis Gehr; Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University; John Jongho Park, Pennsylvania State University; Andrew Michael Erdman, Pennsylvania State University

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, President’s Club, Nittany Lion Club. He hasbeen honored with a LMC Leadership Award, GE Phillippe Award, PSEAS Outstanding service award,Jaycee International Senatorship, and an ESM Centennial Fellowship. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 An Evaluation of an Engineering Leadership Development Program Based on Alumni Job Placement & Career ProgressionAbstractThis is a ‘work-in-progress’ paper and is appropriate for the ‘Inform’ topic area. Leadershipdevelopment programs have become an integral part of the engineering curriculum in order tomeet the professional development needs of our graduates as well

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Designing and Implementing Leadership Development Experiences for Engineering Students

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Brian J. Novoselich, U.S. Military Academy; Russell P. Lemler, U.S. Military Academy

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designexperiences of students: a venue within undergraduate engineering education where leadership isoften addressed. The goal of this paper is to make more explicit how leadership works within theArmy and West Point, to give engineering educators additional tools and models that they mayconsider in developing engineering leadership programs and processes within their owninstitution.IntroductionAs the engineering profession continues to emphasize leadership as an integral part ofengineering practice, many engineering leadership programs and courses have developed acrossthe United States and North America more broadly [1]. Because engineering has traditionallynot been considered a leadership profession, engineering leadership has not gained traction as

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

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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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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skills to teach by emphasizing the contextual nature of leadership behavior. Theresults suggest that successful Capstone leaders would more frequently call on behaviorsassociated with the innovative Create quadrant than those associated with entry level engineeringwork with its emphasis on learning the tasks of a new job through coordination and control. Thissuggests the need to balance the curriculum in Capstone design to encourage the creativeleadership associated with a major undergraduate design experience that integrates all previouscurriculum while nurturing the coordination and monitoring tasks new graduates will encounterwhen starting out as an engineering professional.References[1] N. A. of Engineering, The Engineer of 2020

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Designing and Implementing Leadership Development Experiences for Engineering Students

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Molly H. Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Joe Bradley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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engineering projects, and they need to be able to communicate thoseexperiences [13].The work of Larsson, et, al. indicated that certain leadership styles are best suited for certain typesof engineering projects, depending largely upon the project duration. For example, they found that“Integrators,” whose tendency is to ensure that the team works well on an interpersonal level, tendto be best suited for complex projects that require timely completion. Their results suggest thatdiscovery of a leadership style that is effective for the projects that we do in our courses may leadus to develop a leadership curriculum that teaches leadership in that style to achieve better courseoutcomes [14]. In this work we hope to solve this question in the inverse