Agenda

08:00AM-09:00AM – Student Sections Operations Training
09:00AM-10:00AM – Interactive Discovery of the Leader-Engineer
10:00AM-11:00AM – Keynote Presentation on Engineering Leadership
11:00AM-11:30AM – SDOB Elections

11:30AM-12:00PM – SLS and SLC Joint Event

12:00PM-01:00PM – SLS and SLC Participants Luncheon Presented by ASME Ontario Section



Student Sections Operations Training 

​Leader: SDOB Chair - Moin Ali​
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In this presentation, Moin will guide students through the fundamentals of developing a high-performance student section. Learn the ins and outs of how to create a long-lasting, ASME-reknowned student section. Some of the exciting topics at this session include funding and recruitment techniques, and learning how to leverage your connection with the SDOB and ASME at large. Topics include:

 

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​Interactive Discovery of the Leader-Engineer

Leader: ASME Ontario Section Member - Patricia Sheridan​
 

Patricia Kristine Sheridan received her B.A.Sc. (2009) and M.A.Sc. (2011) in Mechanical

Engineering from the University of Toronto. Throughout her undergraduate and

graduate education Patricia was heavily involved with the UofT ASME Student Section,

first as a member of the executive and later as a graduate student advisor. In 2009,

Patricia and Twish Mehta secured a Diversity Action Grant from ASME to launch a

Computer-Aided Design training day for high-school students interested in engineering.

Patricia has held numerous positions with in the ASME Ontario section as a university-

liaison and past-treasurer.

In addition to her involvement with ASME, Patricia pursued numerous leadership roles

at UofT, initiating the UTFIRST Robotics Mentorship program, and coordinating the

University of Toronto Engineering Kompetitions. Having taught and engaged in research

in engineering design education during her Master’s, Patricia decided to turn her interest in developing engaging engineering curricula into a career. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. at the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering at the UofT. Her research involves developing web-based applications to teach team-effectiveness through team-based projects and integrating team-effectiveness education into the engineering curricula.

Patricia holds a Gold Medal award from the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a UofT Cressy Student Leadership Award.

 

Content:

In this interactive workshop, students will get to explore what it means to be a leader, an engineer, and the interrelationships between leadership and engineering. Through creative means, students will explore the foundations of their self-leadership, discover what it means to be a leader-of-self and a leader-of-others and learn about how the values at the core of leadership are manifested in design work.





Keynote Leadership Presentation on Engineering Leadership

Leader: Dr. Douglas W. Reeve Director, Institute for Leadership

Education in Engineering (ILead), University of Toronto

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Doug Reeve is Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied

Chemistry at the University of Toronto.  He was named Chair in 2001 and in 2006 was

appointed to a second five-year term.

Dr. Reeve founded the Leaders of Tomorrow program in the Department in 2002 and

since 2006 has been Co-leader of the Faculty-wide program of the same name.  He was

the Chair of the Dean’s Task Force on Engineering Leadership Education (2009-2010). 

As recommended by the Task Force, the Institute for Leadership Education in

Engineering (ILead) was founded July 1, 2010; Dr. Reeve was appointed its first Director.

He is the Principal Investigator of the Engineering Leadership Project, which partnered

with Erco Worldwide, Google Canada, Hatch, and Vale aims to characterize what

engineering leadership looks like in engineering-centric enterprises. From these findings, he aspires to create new instructional techniques to develop the leadership competencies of engineering students to better prepare them for industry and academia.

Dr. Reeve was the founding Director of the University of Toronto Pulp & Paper Centre serving from 1987 until 2001.  During his term as Director, the Centre created more than twenty-five million dollars in research programs with financial support from forty-five companies from seven countries.

Dr. Reeve has received numerous awards for his contributions; most recently he was inducted into the University of Toronto Engineering Hall of Distinction in 2012 and was awarded the RS Jane Memorial Award by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering in 2010.  Other awards and honours include: the Carolyn Touhy Impact on Public Policy Award from the UofT (2009); in 2003, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Synergy Award; and in 2002, the Professional Engineers of Ontario Engineering Medal – Research and Development. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2006), and holds an honorary Doctor of Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology.

 

Content:

In this presentation, students will become informed about industry's perspectives leadership within engineering-centric enterprises, and the need to develop leadership-competencies pre-graduation. Through a combination of leadership-development practices as well as research results, students will have the opportunity to learn about the competencies valued in industry as well as how to develop them in their day-to-day lives.