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

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Benjamin Simon, Georgia Institute of Technology; James Field; Lauren Stewart, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

-progress paper by some of the same authors [17]. That paper analyzed the experiences of theFall 2023 course offering.)It should also be noted that the course is a senior-level, undergraduate course, and part of thedepartment’s leadership minor. The course is also one of two prototyping courses in thedepartment’s innovation and entrepreneurship track, and has been the cornerstone of two studyabroad programs.The course description is as follows: This class acquaints the student with state-of-art concepts in origami engineering and teaches the algorithms necessary to design and analyze origami structures for innovative applications. Through the art of origami students will be introduced to the basic concepts of the design

Conference Session

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

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

engineering students think that their engineering knowledge would be sufficient for their careers, but many also don't take soft skills like decision-making seriously because they don't know what employers are looking for [13].  Class size and curriculum overload: Studies also show that instructors find it difficult to include assignments that incorporate such soft skills in their already very content- heavy courses. Additionally, most lectures have an average class size of 100 students, which dramatically reduces how well they learn such skills [14].However, courses on decision-making and leadership are major modules in managementstudies which does not overlap with engineering education currently. So, it

Conference Session

Inclusive Leadership: A Panel Discussion

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

involvement in out-of-class activities(e.g., internships, clubs, sports, and research experiences). Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REUs) may provide students with a unique opportunity to develop leadership-enabling competencies that will prepare them for leadership in graduate school, the engineeringindustry, or academia.The goal of this research was to identify how students’ engagement in an engineering educationvirtual REU site contributed to their development of essential leadership-enabling competencies.The research question guiding this study was ‘What inclusive leadership-enabling competenciesand skills did engineering students learn and develop during an engineering education SummerREU program?’ Qualitative data was collected via

Conference Session

Joint Technical Session: Engineering Leadership Development Division and Engineering Management Division

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James N. Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Reza S. Rahaman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD), Engineering Management Division (EMD)

applications, where students highlight prior motivatingexperiences and their degree of engineering intent, and individual entrance interviews. The curricularfoundation of the program, the Capabilities of Effective Engineering Leaders [10], was developedthrough a series of workshops spanning several months at the program's inception attended byfaculty and scholars in engineering and leadership, successful practitioners from industry, andmilitary leaders. The program's core structure is described in more detail by de Weck et al. [14],and can be summarized as consisting of three "legs": 1) an Engineering Leadership Lab (ELL)where students meet weekly in small teams to face leadership challenges keyed to the Capabilities,2) an Engineering Leadership class

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

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

other disciplines, such as business or liberal arts. While the majority of engineering students atour institution reported involvement with at least one type of engagement experience, such asresearch, civic engagement, creative work, international experience, entrepreneurship, clientprojects, or internships, previous institutional studies found that the intentionality of developmentand measurement of professional competencies were limited in these efforts [9], [11].The College of Engineering at the University of Michigan (U-M) implemented two elective,bookend courses that introduce undergraduate students to engineering leadership competencies,provide opportunities to intentionally seek development of these competencies, and guidestudents to

Conference Session

Special Session: Engineering Leadership—The Courage to Change

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

research focuses on the development of sociotechnical thinking and lifelong learning skills in engineering.Mr. Amin Azad, University of Toronto Amin is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto’s Department of Chemical Engineering, pursuing a collaborative specialization in Engineering Education. Amin focuses on applying Systems Thinking Principles to Engineering Education and assessing its learning outcomes when solving wicked problems, especially in the field of Entrepreneurship. Amin obtained his MASc. and BASc from the University of Toronto, both in Industrial Engineering, and has worked as a consultant and researcher in tech companies. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024