thatexamines leadership transitions throughout the career trajectory of engineers. The first phaseinvestigated the engineering leadership transitions that take place during undergraduateeducation [17]. The current phase of research investigates the school-to-work transition ofengineering graduates, while subsequent phases will focus on the transition from technical tomanagerial roles, including the lifetime reflections on career trajectories of engineers who end upin positions of senior leadership.The current phase of the project analyzed the experiences of individuals as nested cases withinfour engineering companies. We used two main sampling criteria to select early career engineersfor the participation in the study: (1) they should have completed