Roughing It: Evaluating a Novel Experiential Design Course on Resiliency, Self-Leadership, and Engineering Design Self-Efficacy

Case Study #4: Pennsylvania State University

“…This new graduate program highlights the impact of globalisation and the importance of intercultural competencies, including self‐awareness and the ability to work effectively with those that are different from oneself. Building on the ELIM graduate program's effort to address diversity, equity and inclusion, the ELD program added a new module on inclusive leadership in its required course, an empathy building engineering leadership coaching course, and an elective experiential course on resiliency, self‐leadership and engineering design self‐efficacy for women engineers that incorporates a week‐long camping trip on the Appalachian Trail (Krishnakumar et al., 2020).…”