The Goal: Fostering engineering leadership and management best practice development, research, and program development to operationalize sustainability in engineering education and practice.
Engineered systems are often complex. The sustainable design and operation of complex systems are often done via an organization. As a discipline, engineering leadership and management studies the intersection of the human and technical requirements for the effective and sustainable operation of these complex systems.
The goal of the Sustainable Engineering Leadership and Management (SELM) SIG is to foster engineering leadership and management best practice development, research, and program development to operationalize sustainability in engineering education and practice. We look to achieve this by:
- Building networks and relationships with Canadian and international SIG members who are teaching and conducting research on leadership, management and sustainability.
- Sharing continual improvement strategies from university and industry contexts to enhance engineering leadership and management programs in Canada.
- Fostering a sense of personal growth, reflection, and influence in engineering.
Highlighting the importance of engineers’ significant impact on society—enabling our students, colleagues and industry partners to transcend the restricted notion that engineers exclusively solve problems framed by others.