Emily Moore

Director of Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILEAD) and Associate Professor and Associate Director, Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP)

emilyl.moore@utoronto.ca

ILEAD Profile

Emily Moore is the Director of Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILEAD) and Associate Professor and Associate Director, Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP). 

Emily’s research interests include how engineers learn to lead as students and in practice; student motivation and effectiveness in teams; teaching systems thinking to students; and equity in engineering Her work has been supported by research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), University of Toronto funding, and other departmental sources. She teaches and supervisors undergraduate and postgraduate students including doctoral students in engineering leadership.

Selected Publications:

  • Chan, A., Rottmann, C., Reeve, D., Moore, E., Maljkovic, M., & Macdonald-Roach, E. (2020). Wisdom through adversity: Situated leadership learning of senior engineers. Paper presented at the American Society for Studies in Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, QC.
  • Macdonald-Roach, E., Rottmann, C., Chan, A., & Moore, E. (2020). Gendered patterns in senior engineers’ leadership learning. Paper presented at the Canadian Engineering Education Association Annual Conference, Montreal, QC.
  • Liu, Q., Reeve, D., Rottmann, C., & Moore, E. (2020). Examining workplace affordance and student engagement in engineering co-op and internship literature. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education 20(1), 116–129.
  • Kovalchuk, S., Liu, Q., Rottmann, C., Klassen, M., Ricci, J., Reeve, D., & Moore, E. (2019, June). Perceived importance and confidence in leadership ability: A national survey of final year Canadian engineering students. Paper presented at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, FL.
  • Rottmann, C., Reeve, D., Kovalchuk, S., Klassen, M., Maljkovic, M., & Moore, E. (2019, June). Counting past two: Engineers’ leadership learning trajectories. Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, FL.