Analyzing The Existing Undergraduate Engineering Leadership Skills

Keywords

Balanced scorecard; Engineering leadership development; Engineering program; Framework; Matrix of change; Simulation

Abstract

Purpose: Studying and analyzing the undergraduate engineering students' leadership skills to discover their potential leadership strengths and weaknesses. This study will unveil potential ways to enhance the ways we teach engineering leadership. The research has great insights that might assist engineering programs to improve curricula for the purpose of better engineering preparation to meet industry's demands. Methodology & Findings: 441 undergraduate engineering students have been surveyed in two undergraduate engineering programs to discover their leadership skills. The results in both programs were revealing that undergraduate engineering students are lacking behind in the visionary leadership skills compared to directing, including and cultivating leadership styles. Recommendation: A practical framework has been proposed to enhance the lacking leadership skills by utilizing the Matrix of Change (MOC), and the Balanced Scorecard BSC) to capture the best leadership scenarios to design virtual simulation environment as per the lacking leadership skills which is the visionary leadership skills in this case. After that, the virtual simulation will be used to provide an experiential learning by replacing human beings with avatars that can be managed or dramatized by real people to enable the creation of live, practical, measurable, and customizable leadership development programs.

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Publication Title

WMSCI 2016 - 20th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings

Volume

2

Number of Pages

63-67

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

85017023932 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85017023932

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