Rottmann, C., & Moore, E., & Reeve, D., & Chan, A., & Maljkovic, M., & Macdonald-Roach, E. (2023, June), “We Did It!” Proud Moments as a Catalyst for Engineers’ Situated Leadership Learning  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42333

\bibitem{asee_peer_42333}
  Rottmann, C., \& Moore, E., \& Reeve, D., \& Chan, A., \& Maljkovic, M., \& Macdonald-Roach, E. (2023, June), \emph{“We Did It!” Proud Moments as a Catalyst for Engineers’ Situated Leadership Learning}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--42333

Cindy Rottmann, Emily Moore P.Eng., Doug Reeve, Andrea Chan, Milan Maljkovic, and Emily Macdonald-Roach.  "“We Did It!” Proud Moments as a Catalyst for Engineers’ Situated Leadership Learning".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/42333 Internet.  24 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_42333}
  Cindy Rottmann, Emily Moore P.Eng., Doug Reeve, Andrea Chan, Milan Maljkovic, and Emily Macdonald-Roach.
  "“We Did It!” Proud Moments as a Catalyst for Engineers’ Situated Leadership Learning".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/42333 Internet.  24 Apr, 2025

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ASEE LEAD Strategic priority: Explore
Engineers’ day-to-day responsibilities include supervision, influence, and management, yet much of this important engineering leadership (EL) work occurs on the periphery of their professional attention. Our study aims to make this largely implicit process explicit, and thus teachable, by pairing memorable career events with leadership learning processes. More specifically, we use Lave and Wenger’s situated learning theory to investigate how career-embedded proud moments contribute to engineers’ leadership development. Our team identified four types of proud moments along with corresponding leadership lessons in the career history narratives of 29 senior engineers. This four-part proud moment typology—professional dexterity, mobilizing teams, realizing values, and driving excellence—differed in terms of primary objective (achieving goals vs driving change), and level of analysis (self vs system), but in all cases participants found ways to institutionalize an important part of themselves in their respective workplace contexts. This finding suggests that engineers’ proud moments are not only personally affirming stories, but also institutionally validated leadership narratives. By making four types of EL development catalysts explicit, we provide engineering educators with authentic, industry- embedded leadership development narratives to support their programming. This project is significant to the ASEE LEAD division because it provides us with a way of scaffolding EL development for all our students, even those who may resist the notion of engineering as a leadership profession.

AU  - Cindy Rottmann
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AU  - Milan Maljkovic
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