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Leadership Program

Activities

Developing your leadership knowledge, skills, and attitudes can be completed in a variety of ways.  This can be through attending workshops, leading in student clubs, participating in student competition teams and attending classes with leadership lessons embedded in the course content.  The activities described below include opportunities to be instructed as well as to develop your leadership approach.

The Engineering Leadership program promotes skills development across the four domains of leadership learning.  Students who participate in leadership development workshops, student clubs, sports teams, and even certain courses can earn badges that help contribute to their earning the CPP Engineering Leadership Challenge Badge!  Upon graduation, recipients of the leadership challenge badge also receive a leadership program challenge coin to remind them of the professional skills they earned while at Cal Poly Pomona.

 ELP Challenge Coin

Image of the Leadership Challenge Coin.

To learn more about how to get started learning your leadership challenge badge, email us at egrlead@cpp.edu.

The Career Coaching program provides students with an industry coach to help them evaluate their career opportunities, develop a career plan and start taking action to realize that plan.  Funded by alumnus Ahmed Al-Khatib to help students develop career paths beyond their BS degree in engineering, the benefits include:

  • Guidance on how to create a career plan including training and personal development strategies to realize the plan
  • Opportunities to connect with engineering professionals (and future employers!)
  • Access to workshop materials beyond the regular student access

All engineering students are eligible.

If you are interested in this program, please feel free to reach out to egrlead@cpp.edu to learn how to join.

The Engineering Leadership Program offers workshops nearly every Friday during the semester.  All workshops are held virtually and can be accessed by the appropriate zoom or Microsoft Teams meeting link.  Past workshops include Emotional Intelligence, Presenting Technical Information, Initiating Projects, Building Team Psychological Safety, Identifying and Validating Personal Values, and many more.  To join a workshop, contact us via email and we will connect you to the next meeting!

To begin, you should complete your Clifton Strengths assessment today.  All new Freshmen and Transfer starting in Fall 2023 have a license to complete the assessment.  If you missed the email and need help claiming your code, please reach out to the Bronco Leadership Center. 

Students interested in helping shape the Engineering Leadership Program can apply to be an Al-Khatib Student Leadership Fellow.  Leadership fellows help advance the engineering leadership program by helping us build the library of leadership lessons - a collection of mini-case studies used by faculty to teach leadership principles in the classroom.  Leadership Fellows also support the program by helping plan and execute workshops, track student learning, and assess program goals. 

Student Leadership Fellows are compensated through the Al-Khatib Leadership Fellow grant up to 20 hours per week (during the semester) or up to 40 hours during off periods (winter and summer breaks).  Opportunities to apply are posted on Handshake.  Email us for more information.