APPLIED LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES IN ENGINEERING
An introduction to basic leadership theories, styles, and perspectives with an emphasis on applying these concepts to engineering practice and professional contexts. Develop personal leadership competencies such as self-awareness, ethical decision making, and effective teamwork.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe one's own individual strengths, and value others' strengths on a team. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Communicate comfortably and professionally with peers, practicing engineers, non-engineering professionals, and community members. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Reflect upon and understand one’s own responsibility to strive for self-awareness, empathy, curiosity, vulnerability, and feedback when developing one’s leadership skills. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify the leadership role that engineering professionals play in service to a breadth of social, political, environmental, economic, and global issues. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Apply teamwork and leadership skills necessary to embrace individual differences and help groups collaborate on shared aims and values. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Incorporate one's experiences, reflections, and values into a personal leadership identity and develop a plan for further leadership skill development. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe one's own individual strengths, and value others' strengths on a team. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Communicate comfortably and professionally with peers, practicing engineers, non-engineering professionals, and community members. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Reflect upon and understand one’s own responsibility to strive for self-awareness, empathy, curiosity, vulnerability, and feedback when developing one’s leadership skills. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify the leadership role that engineering professionals play in service to a breadth of social, political, environmental, economic, and global issues. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Apply teamwork and leadership skills necessary to embrace individual differences and help groups collaborate on shared aims and values. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Incorporate one's experiences, reflections, and values into a personal leadership identity and develop a plan for further leadership skill development. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027