A survey of alumni of the graduate leadership development course in the School of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas sought to answer the question: “has the study of leadership development been of value to the graduates in the years after completing the course and, if so, how?”
Leadership Education in Engineering Schools
With help for the Engineering Deans of ASEE, we surveyed the interest and practice of engineering schools in developing leadership capabilities of students. This paper documents the motivation for our research, the process we used to gather the data, and assessment and evaluation of the responses.
Leadership and Working Adult Graduate Students
This research discusses transforming cultures in industry and creating more effective and productive organizations through leadership education.
Developing Leadership in Graduate Student Women
This research looks at the issues that limit engineering women’s opportunities for faster advancement, and shares information about a course in developing leadership capacity in women engineers.
Beyond Professionalism to Leadership
This research discusses the growth process of technical professionals when they add an understanding of the different role that is leadership and how it has an impact on each person and on the organization. It includes details of the process of learning about themselves and the journey that they have taken and documented in their leading and learning plans.
Selling Innovation
This paper discusses the resistance to change, and that engineers can learn a lot from well-known processes of ‘selling’ to gain support for innovative ideas.
Educating Manufacturing Leaders
The research in this article explores how a focus on people, not just processes and materials, produces new competitive capabilities for companies in which leadership-educated alumni are employed.