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Teaching Engineers to Form and Share Vision

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Bringing Engineering Leadership Pedagogy to Life!

Page Count

11

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41833

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/41833

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312

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David Novick University of Texas at El Paso

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David Novick is the Mike Loya Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Professor Engineering Education and Leadership at the University of Texas at El Paso. He earned his J.D. at Harvard Law School and his Ph.D. in Computer and information Science from the University of Oregon. Dr. Novick is the author of 140 refereed publications in human-computer interaction and engineering education. He co-founded and co-led the Mike Loya Center for Innovation and Commerce from 2012 to 2017. He is a Strategic Doing certified workshop leader.

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Meagan Kendall University of Texas at El Paso

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Dr. Meagan R. Kendall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and Leadership at the University of Texas at El Paso. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, she received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Biomechanics, from The University of Texas at Austin. An engineering education researcher, her work focuses on enhancing engineering students' motivation, exploring engineering identity formation, engineering faculty development, developing integrated course sequences, and methods for involving students in curriculum development and teaching through Peer Designed Instruction. Dr. Kendall's scholarship emphasizes the professional formation of engineers, specifically through the development and application of the Contextual Engineering Leadership Development framework. Bringing together her work in engineering leadership development, curriculum design, and collaborative design, her current focus is on developing engineering instructional faculty as leaders of educational change at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Dr. Kendall is the Division Chair of the Engineering Leadership Development (LEAD) Division of the American Society of Engineering Education and a Technical Program Chair for the Frontiers in Education Conference 2022.

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Sebastian Palacios

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Melanie Realyvasquez University of Texas at El Paso

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Abstract

This paper reports a project teaching engineering students the leadership skills of forming and sharing vision. We describe the skills of forming and sharing vision, review related learning outcomes, and describe six teaching modules delivered in a senior capstone course sequence in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years at the University of Texas at El Paso, a Hispanic-serving R1 university. To assess the modules, changes in the students’ self-perceptions of vision skills were assessed quantitatively in the 2020-21 course sequence, and students’ perceptions of pedagogical effectiveness of the modules were qualitatively assessed in the 2021-22 course sequence. The pilot study, with six participants, suggested that the modules did, in fact, lead students to see that their leadership vision skills had improved. The fuller qualitative study, with 17 participants, indicated that the students used concepts related to forming vision more frequently than concepts related to sharing vision, which may be due to the study’s small-team context. A large majority of students reported that their team used its vision in working on its project. Analysis of students’ recall of the modules’ concepts indicates that the level of recall per concept ranged from 47% to 100%, with a mean of 76%. The project’s learning outcomes and PowerPoint-based modules are available for use.

Novick, D., & Kendall, M., & Palacios, S., & Realyvasquez, M. (2022, August), Teaching Engineers to Form and Share Vision Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41833

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