Examining the Engineering Leadership Literature: Community of Practice Style (original) (raw)

Advancing Leaders in Engineering: Ways of Learning Leadership

2016

This paper explores the leadership practices of women engineers licensed in British Columbia, Canada and reports on a quantitative correlational study using the Leadership Practices Inventory to operationalize leadership and explore associations with levels of university education, executive coaching, years of engineering practice, and the location of practice as rural versus urban. The number of women leaders in Canadian corporations continues to increase, while the influence of women engineer leaders is less progressive. Growth in the fields of engineering leadership education, management education, and leadership education offered sufficient evidence to pursue research that furthered the leadership development of women engineers. In university engineering education inclusion of leadership education improved, while attention to leadership development for practicing professional women engineers remains sparse. The participants assessed their leadership practices and a correlational...

Ac 2012-3593: Leadership Education for Engineers: Engi- Neering Schools Interest and Practice

2012

Leadership has long been a hot topic in business and education, but until recently has not been a focus in science and engineering. Based on our experience in expanding the curriculum to incorporate a series of leadership courses for graduate engineering students, we were interested in knowing whether others were teaching leadership in their programs. We wanted access to information on other engineering programs that was not available in the literature, which led to developing a survey to gather this data. Our motivation for this research was based on experience as authors from industry. We noticed that academia was sub-optimizing the potential of engineers to fully exercise their knowledge, skill and other leadership capabilities in the workplace. This paper presents the motivation for our research, the process we used to gather the data, and assessment and evaluation of the responses. Examples of the current practice of providing leadership education to engineers are described and...

Developing Engineering Leaders for the 21st Century

2018 World Engineering Education Forum - Global Engineering Deans Council (WEEF-GEDC), 2018

In today’s fast pace and change-driven environment, it has become ever more critical for organizations to recognize that many of their engineers - at some point in their careers - will have to take over leadership roles. Engineers are no longer only involved with the technical project details but must also understand the broader picture as they are often acting as team leaders and are expected to improve the lives of others and help society. Their organizations understand there is a need to educate engineers not just in physics and mathematics, but also in many nontechnical areas - including leadership. This paper describes the Engineering Leadership Program at Beihang University in China, which is aligned with world-class initiatives such as the Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership programs at MIT and Northeastern University in the United States. The paper describes the motivation to establish the program, student learning outcomes and the elements, courses and learning activ...

LEADing The Way: A Review of Engineering Leadership Development Programs

This paper is based on the results of a national survey of ASEE Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) members to compare and contrast the innovative components that have been implemented within various engineering leadership development programs. Data were collected from participants (University Faculty) from 30 North American, African, and European Universities. The following components were examined: cross-cultural education, team-based applied projects, mentorship, and corporate sponsorship. The main objective of this paper is to examine these components, identify innovative practices, and promote the importance and growth of engineering leadership education. Through presenting our preliminary findings, we hope to encourage other programs to participate in the survey so that we can obtain a more comprehensive picture of engineering leadership development practices.

Leadership Transcending Borders: Building Bridges to Integrate Technical and Professional Knowledge

Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)

Engineering knowledge is characterized by an artificial “border” that distinguishes technical expertise from the professional skills needed to solve society’s most pressing problems. Scholars of engineering leadership argue that students who are provided opportunities to blur that distinction and integrate their technical and professional training are better prepared for interdisciplinary and transnational engineering work. This “Lightning Talk” session brings together engineering leadership researchers from universities in Australia, Canada, and the United States to explore an array of approaches to understanding and developing engineering leadership. Best practices are presented followed by a panel discussion of the implications for internationalizing work on engineering leadership.