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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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John Donald, University of Guelph; Paul C. Hungler, Queen's University; Kaitlyn Brant, Queen's University ; Stephanie Diane Shaw, University of Guelph

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Future Planning/Career 20 Progression 10 Intellectual Development/Continuous 0 Learning 3 5 7 9 Entrepreneurship/Innovation Week#Figure 4: Application of reflection in student life as reported in the weekly reflectivesurveys.4.2 Meta-reflection – Area of ApplicationThe students carried out meta-reflection exercises at

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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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andinclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.”Because engineering has traditionally not been considered a leadership profession, many engineersand engineering educators may be unfamiliar with, or even averse to leadership principles andprocesses. One profession that may be a resource for leadership principles and insight is theProfession of Arms, and more specifically, the U.S. Army. Officers and soldiers are often referredto as leaders and as an organization, the Army maintains a high degree of public confidence.Unfortunately, less than one percent of the U.S. population serves in the military and recently,there are concerns that the Army is becoming a family business; many of those serving come fromfamilies with a

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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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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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Board, and c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #28973Curling Club; and served on the Human Services Planning Council, United Way, Chamber of Commerce,and Capital Fund Drive Boards of Directors. Erdman has lectured on leadership topics at Penn State andRPI. He served as a recruiter (25 years) for GE and Lockheed Martin, on the Penn State College of Engi-neering Advisory Council, an Alumni Advisory Board, and as the President of the College of EngineeringAlumni Society. Affiliations include Fellow of ASME, member of ASEE, AIAA, the Penn State AlumniAssociation, Centre County Chapter Board of Directors

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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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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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length. The de-identified, verbatim transcripts werethen systematically coded and organized using an inductive and iterative process of thematicanalysis, within a collaborative team environment. The data analysis team consisted of threeengineering graduates, all with industry experience and two of whom are academics and licensedengineers, as well as two social science researchers and an engineering student. Coding of the 29transcripts was divided among team members. Team meetings were planned around the thematicanalysis of each salient professional moment that was explored in the interviews (e.g., struggles,proud moments, salient growing up experiences). At the meetings, members presented the codesthat emerged from their subset of transcripts

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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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surveys, journals, and semi-structuredinterviews. Study participants were recruited at each of the 4 sites through visits to capstonecourses and capstone team meetings. All capstone students received an email inviting them tocomplete an online screening survey that captured demographic information as well as post-graduation information such as career plans. The dataset for this study includes 62 participantswhere 33 participants identified themselves as male and 29 females. Of those participants, therewere 37 participants who self-identified themselves as White or Caucasian, 12 participants asAsian or Asian American, 6 as underrepresented minorities, 4 as other and 3 of the participantshave not disclosed. With respect to the sites, the dataset

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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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respect for a person beforeaccepting them as a leader, which implies that acceptance of the group is foundational toleadership. He said: “I gained good leadership experience interfacing with the adults and planning some events for the troop. And in high school I was on my basketball team and I was one of the senior captains. That was also a leadership experience. Even though I wasn’t the best basketball player, you have to really earn respect to be given that title. Respect is critical in the acceptance of a leader.”College ExperiencesWe are also interested in how college experiences affected the development of the student leaders.We asked them about meaningful activities that helped them to develop their skills as a