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Insights and Practices for Engineering Leadership Development

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University

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engineering professionals requires a balance in thedevelopment of technical competency along with the ability to clearly communicate ideas, workwell with others, understand one’s own strengths and weaknesses, delegate responsibilities toteam members appropriately, and exhibit empathy and understanding for the other members ofone’s team. In many courses, students have opportunities to develop both technical, or “hardskills,” and professional or “soft skills.”For several decades, traditional electrical engineering curricula has included coursesemphasizing learning to programming microcontrollers. These courses tend to be technicallyrigorous and often involve working in teams to achieve a common goal. Engineering studentseasily learn that their

Conference Session

Insights and Practices for Engineering Leadership Development

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aaron S. Gordon, Clemson University; Jeffery M. Plumblee II, Clemson University; Claire L. A. Dancz, Clemson University

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., 2004. Teaching Geotechnical Engineering using Professional Practice. International Conference on Engineering Education.Kumar, S. & Hsiao, J. K., 2007. Engineers Learn “Soft Skills the Hard Way”: Planting a Seed of Leadership in Engineering Classes. Leadership and Management in Engineering, 7(1), pp. 18-23.Ogle, Jennifer, Plumblee, J., & Vaughn, D., & Gordon, A. 2016. “Enhancing Student’s Learning Experiences through Translational Research in Multidisciplinary Engineering Education,” 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA.Ozgen, S. et al., 2013. Assessment of Engineering Students’ Leadership Competencies. Leadership and Management in Engineering, 13(2), pp. 65-75.Peace Corps

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Engineering Leadership Development: Theories, Models, Frameworks, and Tools

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Hu Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Tianyi Zheng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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among students, and to provide constructivesuggestions to curriculum design. Future comparisons of current findings and priorstudies that were performed in a North American or a European context will also helpdeepen our current understanding of engineering leadership in different culturalcontexts.Acknowledgement This research was supported by Chinese Ministry of Education, Humanities SocialScience Study Program (15YJC880147).Bibliography[1] Kumar, S. & Hsiao, J. K. (2007). Engineers learn ‘soft skills the hard way’: Planting a seed of leadership in engineering classes. Leadership and Management in Engineering, 7(1): 18-23.[2] National Academy of Engineering (NAE). (2004). The Engineer of 2020: Vision of Engineering in the New

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Engineering Leadership Development: Theories, Models, Frameworks, and Tools

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University

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the engineering community of practice. What isunclear from the engineering identity research and related literature is if students are providedopportunities for reflective learning regarding their leadership experiences, the fourthenvironmental condition. As shown through the discussion of engineering identity this reflectionis typically left to chance at best or, at worst, actively discouraged through the viewpoint thatleadership is a “soft” skill not worthy of consideration in an engineering curriculum. Thequestion of incorporating effective reflective learning is central to the work underway.Moving engineering students from a positional to relational understanding of leadership has twobenefits: first, they should have a more stable sense