Foundations Of Engineering Leadership

To be successful in today's VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world, engineers need to be able to do more than just solving technical problems and generating technical solutions. Organisations expect engineers to also have the ability to lead oneself, lead others and even lead the business as they progress in their careers from an individual contributor to a department head. This foundational course is designed to teach students how to lead themselves as a start before they attempt to learn how to lead others and how to lead the business. Since the first step to become a great leader is to start from within, we will begin the course by exploring what behaviours, traits and skills students display as a leader. Having gained clearer insights into who they are as a leader, we will then move on to explore the different ways in which students could develop their leadership competencies. A mixture of lectures, journal articles, videos, class / group activities, case studies, discussions and exercises will be used throughout this course to facilitate students' understanding of leading self.