Open AccessThe Leader-Engineer- Capabilities, Competencies, and Attributes
Author(s) -
D. W. Reeve,
G. Evans,
Annie Simpson
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
proceedings of the ... ceea conference
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-5243
DOI - 10.24908/pceea.v0i0.3133
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , engineering ethics , engineering education , leverage (statistics) , leadership development , engineering , engineering management , knowledge management , computer science , management , political science , public relations , artificial intelligence , economics
There is an urgent need for engineers to participate more fully in debate and decision-making to address the many challenges, local, national and global, that society faces. Engineering education provides graduates with technical competence but there are relatively few engineering programs that directly address development of leadership capability. At the University of Toronto, we have been developing leadership education since 2002 and presently offer wide-ranging curricular and co-curricular programming through Engineering Leaders of Tomorrow (LOT).
Leadership can be defined as “a relational and ethical process of people together attempting to accomplish positive change”. Adding leadership capability to an engineer creates a powerful combined capability. A leader-engineer has the capability to leverage and empower engineering competence with leadership competence.