Courses for teaching leadership capacity in professional engineering degrees in Australia and Europe
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Article Title | Courses for teaching leadership capacity in professional engineering degrees in Australia and Europe |
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ERA Journal ID | 20622 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Khattak, Hamid (Author), Ku, Harry (Author) and Goh, Steven (Author) |
Journal Title | European Journal of Engineering Education |
Journal Citation | 37 (3), pp. 279-296 |
Number of Pages | 18 |
Year | 2012 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Place of Publication | Oxford, United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0304-3797 |
1469-5898 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2012.684671 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03043797.2012.684671 |
Abstract | Recently many educational institutions across the globe have implemented engineering leadership programs either as a part of formal engineering curriculum or where leadership development is embedded into separate in-house programs. This shows a clear intent of these educational institutions to prepare their engineering students for solving the real world problems, recognizing that both technical and leadership skills are valuable for tomorrow’s engineers. Leadership programs in engineering education have been implemented in various formats with varying degrees of success. It has already been identified in research studies that 80-90% of the engineering leadership programs offered explicitly across the globe were based in the United States of America. However, in Europe and Australia, there is a noticeable lack of engineering leadership programs, particularly in undergraduate curriculum. In Australia, it has been identified that only two universities offered a comprehensive program that catered for engineering leadership and both of them were at the post-graduate level. There are other leadership initiatives undertaken by industry in Australia in collaboration with universities but non-explicit in nature. Similarly, Europe is not far ahead. Few engineering universities across the United Kingdom offer leadership programs either as comprehensive degree courses or in modular forms. In the rest of Europe, only Belgium offers a comprehensive explicit program at the postgraduate level. The programs which are offered across Australia and Europe have distinct design and delivery styles but there are certain key features which are common to most of the programs including professional partnerships, mentoring, engineering design and project-based approaches. |
Keywords | engineering leadership program; Europe; Australia; curriculum; project-based approaches; engineering design |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520104. Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors) |
390113. Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy | |
409999. Other engineering not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Engineering and Surveying |
Centre of Excellence in Engineered Fibre Composites | |
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q1504/courses-for-teaching-leadership-capacity-in-professional-engineering-degrees-in-australia-and-europe
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