Academics, industry professionals and policymakers from across Canada convened in Toronto this week for a first-of-its-kind conference on engineering leadership education.
The National Initiative on Capacity Building and Knowledge Creation for Engineering Leadership (NICKEL) aims to create dialogue on how best to integrate leadership training into engineering curricula. The inaugural NICKEL conference was organized and hosted by U of T Engineering’s Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead).
“This was a great opportunity to bring together people who have been thinking about these issues, from Vancouver to St. John’s and everywhere in between,” said Mike Klassen, ILead Assistant Director, Community of Practice on Engineering Leadership. Among nearly 40 people attending the meeting were professors, instructors and deans from Canada’s major engineering schools, as well as representatives from industry and Engineers Canada.
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-Tyler Irving