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Predictors of Effective Leadership in Industry--Should Engineering Education Focus on Traditional Intelligence, Personality, or Emotional Intelligence?
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Lappalainen, Pia – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Despite the changing global and industrial conditions requiring new approaches to leadership, management training as part of higher engineering education still remains understudied. The subsequent gap in engineering education calls for research on today's leader requirements and pedagogy supporting the inclusion of management competence in higher…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Intelligence, Personality Traits, Emotional Intelligence
Performance on Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices by African, East Indian, and White Engineering Students in South Africa.
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Rushton, J. Philippe; Skuy, Mervyn; Fridjhon, Peter – Intelligence, 2003
Tested the hypothesis that the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices test has the same construct validity in African university students that it does in non-African university students. Differences in results for 294 engineering students in South Africa show that differences are not attributable to cultural peculiarities of the test, but are a…
Descriptors: College Students, Construct Validity, Cultural Differences, Engineering