Surveying Industry Needs for Leadership in Entry-level Engineering Positions

Hartmann, Beth Lin; Stephens, Clinton M.; Jahren, Charles T.

doi:10.18260/p.24784

“…Early career engineers may be demonstrating behaviours that others might interpret as leadership but that they might not see as leadership themselves. In order to examine leadership behaviors, we used Hartmann's five engineering leadership themes for coding: initiative/confidence, communication, interpersonal interaction, teamwork, and engagement [9], [16]. We augmented this by coding for proactive behaviours from Ashforth et al: information seeking, feedback seeking, job change negotiating, positive framing, general socializing, building relationships, and networking [12].…”

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

Klassen¹,

Kovalchuk²,

Reeve³

et al.

2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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“…This need has been recognized in numerous studies and addressed in engineering accreditation standards [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] . Many universities struggle to find space in a curriculum under constant pressure to cover broadening technical fields.…”

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‘Lion Leadership Lessons Video Series’ - Delivering Engineering Leadership Lessons to a Broad Audience

Lang¹,

Erdman²,

Handley³

2016 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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professional experiences and research interests range from mechanical engineering facilities design to research that applied engineering and molecular biology approaches to the study of the skeletal response to mechanical loading. As a Mechanical Engineer, she worked on facility design projects involving mechanical systems that included heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and energy conservation systems, as well as R&D of air conditioning equipment for Navy ships. Additional research interests have included the investigation of relationships among components of the indoor environment, occupants, and energy usage. Specifically, the effects of the indoor environment on occupant health and well-being and in parallel, how socially-mediated energy-saving strategies can increase awareness of energy use and/or increase energy saving behaviors. Dr. Lang's current research interests focus on identifying, assessing, and developing key skills, knowledge, attitudes, and other intrinsic and extrinsic factors required for engineers to effectively lead others, particularly other engineers and across cultures. Meg is a board certified coach with experience in developing students' leadership and professional competencies through teaching and one-on-one coaching. She is most interested in developing student knowledge of leadership to impact their successful transition to the workplace. Mr. Andrew Michael Erdmanc American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 'Lion Leadership Lessons Video Series' Delivering Engineering Leadership Fundamentals to a Broad Audience AbstractLeadership skills are in ever-growing demand among companies who recruit engineering graduates. This need has been recognized in numerous studies and addressed in engineering accreditation standards [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] . Many universities struggle to find space in a curriculum under constant pressure to cover broadening technical fields. Often these leadership courses are offered as options on top of existing requirements, resulting in students taking additional credits, at significant cost to them.

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“…These changes require engineering educational institutions to incorporate key non-technical competencies into their curriculum, based on industry needs. Recent studies have also utilized industry experts to determine important competencies and themes related to engineering leadership and are working to create an evaluative tool for undergraduate engineering leadership development [16][17] .…”

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Identifying Engineering Leadership Potential During the On-Campus Recruiting Process

Handley¹,

Lang²,

Erdman³

2016 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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professional experiences and research interests range from mechanical engineering facilities design to research that applied engineering and molecular biology approaches to the study of the skeletal response to mechanical loading. As a Mechanical Engineer, she worked on facility design projects involving mechanical systems that included heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and energy conservation systems, as well as R&D of air conditioning equipment for Navy ships. Additional research interests have included the investigation of relationships among components of the indoor environment, occupants, and energy usage. Specifically, the effects of the indoor environment on occupant health and well-being and in parallel, how socially-mediated energy-saving strategies can increase awareness of energy use and/or increase energy saving behaviors. Dr. Lang's current research interests focus on identifying, assessing, and developing key skills, knowledge, attitudes, and other intrinsic and extrinsic factors required for engineers to effectively lead others, particularly other engineers and across cultures. Mr Identifying Engineering Leadership Potential During the On-Campus Recruiting Process AbstractRecruiters' perspectives are important in determining how students should best convey their leadership skills during the recruitment process. Recruiters are responsible for evaluating and identifying talent appropriate for today's dynamic global environment. This study aims to understand, from the recruiters' perspective, the important engineering leadership behaviors an engineering student needs to communicate during the on-campus recruiting process. Additionally, the study identifies what undergraduate activities or programs recruiters' value in demonstrating important engineering leadership behaviors. The study uses a qualitative interview approach to generate themes of engineering leadership behaviors that recruiters seek to understand during the on-campus recruiting process as well as strategies recruiters use to identify engineering leadership potential.Recruiters were asked to complete a qualitative interview questionnaire during their participation in the 2015-2016 recruiting activities at a large public institution. Interview questions explored the strategies recruiters use to identify engineering leaders, what engineering leadership behaviors are important for students to communicate, and student experiences that alert a recruiter of engineering leadership potential. A list of themes was generated using the constant comparative method. Triangulation of data was achieved through an independent focus group consisting of experienced engineering recruiters to verify the themes identified in the qualitative questionnaire. Utilizing these steps provides a structure for precise and complete analysis of the data with validation through the triangulation process.Results from this study inform engineering leadership educators on how recruiters perceive students' leadership potential in the early-stages of their careers rel...

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Surveying Industry Needs for Leadership in Entry-level Engineering Positions

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

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

‘Lion Leadership Lessons Video Series’ - Delivering Engineering Leadership Lessons to a Broad Audience

Identifying Engineering Leadership Potential During the On-Campus Recruiting Process

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