Leadership Courses
TEP343: Engineering Leadership
Students looking to lead with confidence, courage and competence will learn how to intentionally leverage their unique leadership style.
Course material is delivered through lectures, readings, in-class discussion and a team project that involves interviewing a senior leader in an engineering-intensive company.
TEP442: Cognitive and Psychological Foundations of Effective Leadership
Students interested in a self-led and introspective exploration of a healthy mind set will learn psychological principles for leading a fulfilling life, such as motivation, resilience, self-efficacy and more.
In this non-lecture based course, learning takes the form of activities, games and discussions with peers.
TEP444: The Happy Engineer - Positive Psychology for Engineers
This course focuses on personal development, success and fulfillment as an engineer via self observation, metacognition and letting go of self limiting beliefs. Practice learning for the joy of it!
Join your peers on adventures around the city, practice reflective writing and learn about yourself!
TEP445: The Power of Story — Discovering Your Leadership Narrative
For engineering students interested in speaking and writing their leadership narratives into existence.
Students will practice storytelling techniques by learning about the mechanics of stories, reflecting on their identities and developing critical thinking skills regarding the stories (meta-narratives) that surround us; particularly as they relate to engineering problems/ethics.
This is a highly experiential course with a focus on reading, discussion, practice and reflection.
TEP449: Intercultural Communication and Leadership
Students will deepen their understanding of culture beyond national, linguistic and ethnic boundaries and learn how intercultural communication is applied to the practice of leadership in the many contexts they engage in as students and as junior engineers.
Concepts of cultural sensitivity, cultural competence and cultural humility will be related to models of leadership to enable students to increase their cultural sensitivity and humility in multi- and intercultural contexts.