期刊名称：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
出版年度：2018
DOI：10.24908/pceea.v0i0.13108
出版社：The Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
摘要：The increasing complexity of our world as a result of globalization has called for a greater emphasis on leadership in many sectors of society. This includes engineering, both in terms of education and practice. A review of literature reveals that engineering concepts of leadership do not always align with concepts of other disciplines, suggesting the existence of a kind of “engineering leadership”. To identify what this form of leadership might be, four concepts, closely related to leadership are extracted from the leadership literature: problem, skills, authority and values. As these are carried over from engineering to leadership, a certain kind of leadership results. Of these four concepts, “values” was explored further through the engineering values of dependency, efficiency and inevitability. These values affect one’s concept of leadership: inevitability, for instance, may cause some leaders to uncritically accept certain aspects of the social system. In this way, we can define “engineering leadership” as leadership which embodies or expresses engineering values.
