Validating the Importance of Leadership Themes for Entry-Level Engineering Positions

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

“…The other two themes, teamwork and engagement, were far less prevalent. This aligned with Hartmann and Jahren's own findings from the United States, where initiative/confidence was by far the most highly valued competence [18]. The analysis of proactive behaviours using codes from Ashforth, Sluss and Saks [12] revealed that information seeking, feedback seeking and relationship building were by far the most prevalent.…”

Counting Past Two: Engineers' Leadership Learning Trajectories

“…Most of this research involves program directors describing and assessing best practices in the context of their programs [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20], with some taking a multi-institutional approach [21][22][23][24][25]. A smaller, but growing community of researchers has surveyed industry leaders about the skills and traits necessary to become an effective leader, often concluding their studies with recommendations for undergraduate engineering educators about the intra-and interpersonal skills necessary to ease their students' workplace transitions [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38].…”

Implementing Fuzzy AHP and FUCOM to evaluate critical success factors for sustained academic quality assurance and ABET accreditation

“…Whereas, some of the SOs also aim at development of professional skills such as ethical consideration, problem analysis, impact analysis, multidisciplinary team player, cross-cultural communication, continued professional development, leadership and public service [23,24]. The leadership skills intertwined in SOs such as initiative/confidence, communication, interpersonal interaction, teamwork and engagement, are highly sought after in entry-level engineering graduates [25]. Similarly, systems thinking skills originated from constructivist theory are also essential as they are highly desirable in complex systems development [26].…”