Conference Session

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

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

– skilled at solving technically challenging problems and supportive of others 2. Collaborative Optimization – a proven ability to build and catalyze high performing teams. 3. Organizational Innovation – Apply entrepreneurial thought to bring technically sound, scientifically based solutions to market.The Toronto model addresses two substantial problems found in the engineering leadershipliterature (Rottmann et al., 2015). First, by promoting an empirically grounded model, theseorientations provide a framework for educators to move away from the piecemeal manner ofeducating engineers in leadership (Graham, 2009). Second, this framework begins to model howengineers lead, not how to lead engineers. However, this work only

Conference Session

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

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Klassen, University of Toronto; Serhiy Kovalchuk, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

); collaborative optimization - “build[ing] effective and efficient teams acrossorganizational units by learning about and leveraging their colleagues’ strengths” (pp. 7-8); andorganizational innovation – “us[ing] entrepreneurial thinking to bring technically sound ideas tomarket” (p. 8) [5], [7]. It should be noted that the three orientations can be used to understandboth leadership conceptions and behaviours.Leadership behaviours refer to observable actions taken by individual engineers that influencechange. Early career engineers may be demonstrating behaviours that others might interpret asleadership but that they might not see as leadership themselves. In order to examine leadershipbehaviors, we used Hartmann’s five engineering leadership themes for