Enabling the Canadian Engineering Grand Challenges

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Enabling the Canadian Engineering Grand Challenges (CEGCS) for Educators Engineering Leadership - Introduction Outline CEGC and the Role of the Engineer Engineering Leadership Overview Engineering Leadership Skills Engineering Leadership Domains of Influence Summary CEGC and the Role of the Engineer The CEGC are complex sociotechnical challenges. To design and develop sustainable solutions to the CEGCs, engineers must embrace the concept that their role goes beyond creating technical solutions. CEGC and the Role of the Engineer Engineering is a sociotechnical practice Requires a leadership mindset Requires intentional development of transdisciplinary skills Combines leadership capabilities, management capacity Includes ability to develop and communicate sustainable solutions with both technical and non-technical communities. Engineering Leadership Overview What is Leadership? Leadership is a process of influencing others to reach a common positive goal.1 Poll Question? 6 Do you think of Engineering as a Leadership Profession? Poll Engineering Leadership Overview Interesting Observation 1https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/22/more-top-performing-ceos-now-have-engineering-degrees-than-mbas/ “Thirty-four of the top 100 CEOs in 2018 … had an engineering degree.”1 Harvard Business Review, Oct. 22, 2018 Furthermore: 26.4 percent of the CEO’s on the S&P 500 and Fortune 500 had engineering degrees Engineering Leadership Overview Engineering is a Leadership Profession Obligated to guide the technology we create Integrate solutions into society in a positive and sustainable manner Engineering has diverse career pathways Engineering Leadership Overview1 Engineering leadership has been defined in many ways, and often include the technical nature of the engineer’s role and responsibilities, contextualized to engineering practice. 1 R. L. D. Komarek, In search of a definition and frameworks for engineering leadership development, New Directions in Student Leadership, vol. 2022, no. 173, pp. 33–41, Mar. 2022, doi: 10.1002/yd.20477. Engineering Leadership Overview1 Engineers do not approach leadership as position but rather approach as a process with a need to develop the underlying skills the enable leadership, followership and working with team members and society in a multidisciplinary context. 1 R. L. D. Komarek, In search of a definition and frameworks for engineering leadership development, New Directions in Student Leadership, vol. 2022, no. 173, pp. 33–41, Mar. 2022, doi: 10.1002/yd.20477. Engineering Leadership Overview Sample Definitions Engineering leadership consists of capabilities and values that transform technical people from individual contributors into those who can lead teams to deliver a complex multi-disciplinary product.2 [2] MIT. Bernard M Gordon MIT Engineering Leadership Program. https://gelp.mit.edu/, accessed January 21, 2023 Engineering Leadership Overview Sample Definitions Through engineering leadership, individuals and groups implement transformative change and