Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Competency and Skill Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Engineering Leadership Development

given its title “Women, Naturally Better Leaders….”; 8 male students alsoread this paper. The reading prompts asked students to reflect on their personal strengths andweaknesses with regards to the leadership traits and attributes described in the paper. Thisprocess of metacognition hopefully allowed each student to develop self-efficacy aroundleadership (congruent with EVT), as well as personal plans for improvement. Many studentsspecifically planned to apply their leadership knowledge in the context of their upcomingcapstone design course.Summary and ConclusionsThis study began with an exploration of student opinions on the importance of leadership in theirfuture engineering career, relative to other knowledge/skills/attitudes. This is

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Werner Zorman, Harvey Mudd College

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development

. Bradford “So I tookthe T-group section and much to my surprise, found that it opened up a whole new life to me. Itexposed me to experiences that I had never had before or for that matter had never evenunderstood existed.” [31].With the help of faculty members from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, who have ledhundreds of T-Groups, the author created a modified version of Stanford’s InterpersonalDynamics course, considering the needs of an undergraduate student population. This newlydesigned course, with the T-Group method as its core element, was offered to the undergraduatestudents of Harvey Mudd College during the spring semester 2017 as a pilot and after a verypositive reception (course evaluations 6.77 out of 7) again during the fall

Conference Session

Literature and Research Perspectives on Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Mike Klassen, University of Toronto; Serhiy Kovalchuk, University of Toronto; Qin Liu, University of Toronto; Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto; Madeleine Santia

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development

United States and coinedthe term “cosmopolitan” to characterize the professional orientations of professors who viewedthemselves as technical specialists. These participants measured themselves against an externalreference group of similarly trained academics in their discipline, and tended to express limitedloyalty to the college. In contrast, professors with a “local” orientation viewed themselves ascontributing members of the “Co-op College” faculty. They were aware of their disciplinarytraining, but tended to measure themselves against a reference group of colleagues and viewthemselves as primarily responsible to their students and employers. To the extent that theseorientations can be applied to engineers, we believe those with a

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

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Engineering Leadership Development

. He has taught courses focused on first-year engineering students, materials science and engineering, en- gineering design, systems thinking and engineering leadership. He has a PhD in Polymer, Fiber Science from Clemson University. His research background is in the synthesis of polymer nanocomposites and engineering education. He was trained as a Manufacturing Process Specialist within the textile industry, which was part of an eleven-year career that spanned textile manufacturing to product development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Convergent Approaches for Developing Engineering Leadership in UndergraduatesAbstractHere we describe a shared approach to engineering