Leading from the Bottom Up: Leadership Conceptions and Practices Among Early Career Engineers

Understanding the Perceived Impact of Engineers’ Leadership Experiences in College

“…Engineering leadership programs often define leadership learning outcomes in terms of specified leadership skills that will be required of new professionals entering the field, yet often fail to couch programs within the context of a broader leadership theory [4,18]. The bulk of the leadership development literature focuses on identifying formal practices and informal experiences that contribute to leadership development to evaluate and improve existing programs and to provide guidance for the development of new programs [19][20][21][22].…”

Using Competing Values Framework to Map the Development of Leadership Skills as Capstone Design Students Transition to the Workplace

“…In spite of the extensive efforts on developing leadership programs at different institutions, few studies have measured leadership behaviors and monitored changes post implementation and investigated the impact of these programs on early career engineers [11], [12], [24]. Specifically, there is no study that explores the change in leadership behaviors among engineering students as they are transitioning from their senior year to workplaces.…”