Board 139: Engineering Leadership Identity: A Qualitative Approach to Understand the Intersection of Engineering and Leadership Identities

Abstract

pursuing a B.S. in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering and a B.A. in Honor's Liberal Studies. Romy is a member of IISE, Alpha Pi Mu, and the Montana State Women in Engineering Advisory Board. Her previous professional experience includes an internship with The Boeing Company and undergraduate research work with the Space Science and Engineering Lab at Montana State.

The influence of engineering competition team participation on students' leadership identity development

“…The Montana State framework combines the LID model discussed above with a community of practice model (Lave & Wenger, 1991). Early results suggest that engineering students may experience conflict between a leadership identity and an engineer identity (Beigel et al, 2019), concurrent with the working engineers' attitudes reported in the Toronto studies.…”

In search of a definition and frameworks for engineering leadership development

“…Their proposed model combines engineering identity (technical skill development, self/other recognition as engineer) with leadership identity (leadership skill development, leadership beyond position) and includes acknowledging engineering as a leadership profession. Beigel et al (2019) follow up this work qualitatively, holding focus groups of engineering students who participated in a research program. Students reported the importance of their gender identities, internship experiences, specific courses (such as design), and interaction with mentors as impacting their engineering and leadership identities (Beigel et al, 2019).…”

“…Beigel et al. (2019) follow up this work qualitatively, holding focus groups of engineering students who participated in a research program. Students reported the importance of their gender identities, internship experiences, specific courses (such as design), and interaction with mentors as impacting their engineering and leadership identities (Beigel et al., 2019).…”