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Special Session: Engineering Leadership—The Courage to Change

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Moore, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Amin Azad, University of Toronto

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experience and learning.AcknowledgementsThis work was funded in part by a grant from NEO Performance Materials.References[1] P. Northouse, “Leadership: Theory and Practice,” All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors, Jan. 2010, [Online]. Available: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/103[2] H. W. J. Rittel and M. M. Webber, “Dilemmas in a general theory of planning,” Policy Sci, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 155–169, Jun. 1973, doi: 10.1007/BF01405730[3] M. R. Kendall, D. Chachra, K. Gipson, and K. Roach, “Motivating the need for an engineering‐specific approach to student leadership development,” New Drctns Student Lead, vol. 2022, no. 173, pp. 13–21, Mar. 2022, doi: 10.1002/yd.20475.[4] R. L. Martin, The opposable mind: winning through

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Mentorship in Engineering Leadership Development

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Seth C. Sullivan, Texas A&M University; Maria Polyzoi; Sheila Rivera; Rachel Elizabeth Rice, Texas A&M University; Nicholas Aleczander Barrio, Texas A&M University

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Paper ID #48647Empathy: Developing This Core Leadership Skill in Engineering StudentsMr. Seth C. Sullivan, Texas A&M University Seth Sullivan is the Director of the Zachry Leadership Program in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the university, he worked in consulting in the private sector and as an analyst in the U.S. Government. Heˆa C™s earnedMs. Maria PolyzoiSheila RiveraRachel Elizabeth Rice, Texas A&M UniversityNicholas Aleczander Barrio, Texas A&M University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Empathy: Developing this Core

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Engineering Leadership Competencies and Skills

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacie Edington, University of Michigan; Michael Dailey, University of Michigan

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little bit crazy” ● “Dedication” ● “Forethought” ● “Adaptability”* ● “Ability to learn” ● “Efficiency” ● “Hardworking” ● “Open-mindedness” ● “Ability to socialize” ● “Fast learner” ● “Open minded” ● “People skills” ● “Adaptability” ● “Foresight” ● “Organization”* ● “Project ● “Analytical thinking” ● “Hard work” ● “Organized” management”* ● “Clever” ● “Personability” ● “Confidence” ● “Decision making” ● “Finding Data” ● “Foresight” ● “Hardworking” ● “Human skills” ● “Insight” ● “Interest in engineering” ● “Interpersonal Skills” ● “Logic” ● “Networking” ● “Open to new ideas” ● “Relationship/people

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kenneth W. Lamb P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Seth Claberon Sullivan, Texas A&M University

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their teams on challengingproblems also promotes psychological safety in their teams [4].With these thoughts in mind, we began to be curious about the state of psychological safety andstudent engineering teams. This work in progress builds upon two pilot studies presentedpreviously and expanded to include data from additional universities [5,6]. In addition to beingcurious about benchmarking the psychological safety of student engineering teams, we were alsocurious to understand if we can improve psychological safety on underperforming teams. Each ofthe universities participating in this study provides leadership or teaming development training tostudents in some way. Therefore, we are curious if these efforts lead to improvements

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James N. Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John M. Feiler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Leo McGonagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eileen Milligan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alexander Rokosz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Schanne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Reza S. Rahaman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Olivier Ladislas de Weck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #42120Navigating the Mystery: An Approach for Integrating Experiential Learningin Ethics into an Engineering Leadership ProgramDr. James N. Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology James Magarian is a Sr. Lecturer with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. He joined MIT and GEL after nearly a decade in industry as a mechanical engineer and engineering manager in aerospace/defense. His research focuses on engineering workforce formation and the education-careers transition.John M. Feiler, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLeo McGonagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Leo McGonagle

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Engineering Leadership Development Division Technical Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aida Ghiaei, University of Connecticut; Alanna Marie Gado; Francesco Rouhana; Tasnim Zaman; Mahjabeen Fatema Mitu; Mayowa Festus Oladele; Adaeze Maduako, University of Connecticut; Suman Kumari, University of Connecticut

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are drawn from the university (comprisingfaculty or staff) and industry (UConn Alumni), based on their expertise on the topics. One of themost beneficial aspects of the workshop is the opportunity for group discussion, through whichparticipants, who come from a variety of engineering, cultural, and personal backgrounds, canlearn from one another and exchange ideas through games or case studies. The program also fostersnetworking opportunities across various engineering disciplines and encourages participation incommunity service projects. The JLLA’s investment in Mind Garden’s Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) wasintended to gain an understanding and assess the effectiveness of members’ participation in termsof improving their

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Innovative Approaches to Teaching & Developing Engineering Leadership

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brainerd Prince, Plaksha University; Sumita Ambasta; Vinayak Krishan Joshi, Plaksha University

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skills taught.Additionally, students rated the effectiveness of research pedagogy in teaching the skills ofcritical thinking and decision-making significantly higher than expected. The study resultsprove that decision-making and leadership skills can be organically brought into engineeringwhen research design is used as a pedagogical tool for teaching about decision-makingexplicitly.IntroductionEngineering education in the 21st century needs to consider the future of work, which takesinto account the aspects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the role of automation [1].Educators need to keep in mind the rapid technological changes that are happening in ourworld today to align the engineering curriculum to real-world requirements. Learning

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Poster Session

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Choi Ausman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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leadership role in a couple different areas on campus. Seeing her do what she does in her roles really motivated me.For other students, they craved building community away from engineering: I already spend my school work time doing all that engineering stuff, going to office hours, and even helping friends or people who ask me when I'm at these office hours. Getting away from that engineering community is like a good break because I don't want to always just be around engineers. You want to feel connected to them and you want to understand them. And myself being Asian American, I met so many kind of like-minded people, like second-generation immigrants you know in this organization. And I felt

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Engineering Leadership Competencies and Skills

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anuli Ndubuisi, University of Toronto; Philip Asare, University of Toronto

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Paper ID #44193A Case Study of Integrating Leadership Competencies in a Global EngineeringDesign Course: A Work in ProgressAnuli Ndubuisi, University of Toronto Anuli Ndubuisi is an educator and doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Pedagogy with a Collaborative Specialization in Engineering Education at the University of Toronto. She has over a decade of experience in the engineering profession, education, and research. Her research is at the intersection of leadership, global learning and boundary crossing in engineering education.Philip Asare, University of Toronto ©American Society for

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Engineering Leadership in Industry

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Seth Claberon Sullivan, Texas A&M University

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engineering curriculum typically does not cover extensively [18], and which theyhave not had to do in their early-career roles. These engineers, who may have performedindividual contributor tasks for most of their careers, may feel unprepared and unconfident, andthus unhappy, when placed in higher-responsibility leadership positions. Another possibleexplanation is that engineers feel like the higher responsibility tasks are not necessarily moreimpactful than are the lower-level tasks. As technically-minded professionals, many may findmore enjoyment and happiness in more technical roles.B. Female Engineers’ Relationships with Co-Workers Positive relationships with co-workers was one of the first antecedents of happinessraised in a study of

Conference Session

Civil Engineering & Leadership Division Joint Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin G. Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Journal of Professional Issues inEngineering Education and Practice, Vol. 135, No. 1.NRC, National Research Council (2000) How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, andSchool: Expanded Edition. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.Sutterer, K., Aidoo, J., Hanson, J., Kershaw, K., Lovell, M., Marincel Payne, M., Mueller, J., andRobinson, M. (2019) “A Collaborative Process Leading to Adoption of ASCE BOK3 Consistentwith ABET,” Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference,June 2019, Salt Lake City, NV.Wiggins, G. and McTighe, J. (1998) Understanding by Design, Association for Supervision andCurriculum Development (ASCD), Alexandria, VA.

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Engineering Leadership in Industry

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Volpe, University of Florida; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida

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inclusion, practicinginclusive leadership is essential. Leaders in engineering organizations play a significant role inshaping work spaces, environments, policies, cultures, values, and social norms [10]. It isessential for inclusive leaders to be mindful of the cultures they are perpetuating and seek todevelop a culture of belonging where all individuals, regardless of identity or privilege, believethey can thrive [10]. Inclusive CulturesWorkplace cultures and environments can greatly impact performance, productivity, efficiency,teamwork, communication, collaboration, job satisfaction, employee engagement, stress, andburnout and even retention [12]. The scholar Schein indicated that culture can be broken downinto various levels including

Conference Session

Special Session: Engineering Leadership—The Courage to Change

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Mattucci, University of Guelph; Makary Nasser, University of Guelph

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collaborative change management and communities ofpractice in engineering education at the national level, where Mattucci developed a largeprofessional network across the country. In this role he often felt unfamiliar with the actors,priorities, and attitudes within the various contextual domains and the people he was workingwith. This role coincided with the initiation of his mindfulness and awareness practice, which ledto him actively seeking ‘contextual mentors’ to help navigate the systems. This approach ofintentionally seeking contextual mentorship has been ongoing for the last five years. Recently, hebecame more aware of the mentees in his network, and perceiving these relationships through asocial network lens, which has inspired this work, and

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Engineering Leadership Development Division Technical Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Michelle Melvin, Louisiana State University and A&M College; Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University; Adrienne Steele, Louisiana State University and A&M College

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Paper ID #40169Using Escape Rooms to Apply Team Building and Leadership Skills in anEngineering Leadership Development Program: A Work in ProgressDr. Elizabeth Michelle Melvin, Louisiana State University and A&M College Elizabeth M. Melvin is currently the Director of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She earned her BS in chemical engineering from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH in 2002 and her MS andMr. Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University David ”Boz” Bowles is an Assistant Director of Academic Affairs for the College of Engineering, where he

Conference Session

Civil Engineering & Leadership Division Joint Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joel Sloan, U.S. Air Force Academy; Scott R Hamilton P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Norb Delatte, Oklahoma State University; Tanya Kunberger P.E., University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown; Audra N. Morse P.E., Michigan Technological University; David A Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Camilla M. Saviz P.E., University of the Pacific

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Paper ID #45440Faculty Perspectives on Effective Supportive Department LeadershipCol. Joel Sloan, U.S. Air Force Academy Colonel Joel Sloan Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE is the Permanent Professor and Head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado. He received his B.S. in civil engineering as a distinguished graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy, M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Colorado, and Ph.D. in civil engineering from Virginia Tech. He is an ASEE member and a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. His research interests include geotechnical

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Inclusive Leadership: A Panel Discussion

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katreena Thomas, Clemson University; Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

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feedback she received inicatedthat she did not fit a "technical mold." She decided to pivot into a field where she could leverageher social capabilities more. She further explained, So as opposed to really trying to force and change my mind about my technical side. I'm just gonna like lean into what I'm great at and do that, because that's what makes me happy. (…) If I could have went back and had a best case scenario, if I could have had a mentor or someone who like trained me on how to be good at both, as opposed to having to pick a path, I think that would have kept me staying in engineering as opposed to now I'm leaning into what people said I was good at and I'm going to Business School. I'm gonna be

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Special Session: Engineering Leadership—The Courage to Change

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marnie Jamieson, University of Alberta; John R. Donald P.Eng., University of Guelph

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, beliefs and assumptions intended to create a sense ofownership and identification with the organization in order to motivate high performance andcontribution alignment with the corporate goals. These values, beliefs and assumptions are alsoinformed by historical institutional structures and cultures. Kunda [32] explores the roots,rhetoric and reality of embedded corporate engineering culture and argues “the development ofstrong corporate culture is the latest stage in the historical development of managerial ideologytoward an emphasis on normative control - the desire to bind the employees' hearts and minds tothe corporate interests.” Kunda undertook an ethnographic investigation of the engineeringdivision of a tech company regarded to have

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New Approaches and Leadership Development Frameworks

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Victoria Kerr, University of Toronto; Brandon Aldo Lista, University of Toronto; Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto; Emily Moore P.Eng., University of Toronto

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Paper ID #48364What Makes a Leader? Conceptualizations of Leadership and Implicationsfor Teamwork in First Year DesignVictoria Kerr, University of TorontoBrandon Aldo Lista, University of TorontoMs. Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto Professor Sheridan is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead) and the Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies in Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP) at the University of Toronto. Prof. Sheridan teaches teamwork and leadership in the first-year cornerstone design courses and oversees the integration of

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New Approaches and Leadership Development Frameworks

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Bosman, Purdue University; Rhea Dutta

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Paper ID #46143Using Photovoice to Assess Technology Student Perceptions of Virtual RealityInside and Outside the ClassroomDr. Lisa Bosman, Purdue University Dr. Bosman holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering. Her engineering education research interests include entrepreneurially minded learning, energy education, interdisciplinary education, and faculty professional development.Rhea Dutta Rhea is a sophomore studying Industrial Engineering at the Purdue University College of Engineering and the John Martison Honors College. She is originally from Princeton, New Jersey, and will graduate in May 2026

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Inclusive Leadership: A Panel Discussion

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Lewis Caulfield; Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University; Melissa Wood Aleman, James Madison University; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University & Carthage College

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Paper ID #38758Learning from an Omnidirectional Mentorship Program: Identifying Themesand Outcomes through a Qualitative LensMatthew Lewis CaulfieldDr. Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University Daniel I. Castaneda is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison Univer- sity. Daniel earned his PhD in 2016 and his Master’s in 2010, both in civil engineering from the Univer- sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He previously earned his Bachelor’s in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley. His course development includes civil engineering materials, dynamics, engineering design