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Engineering leadership is one of the key competencies being requested by accreditation agencies and engineering companies. Thus, it is of utmost importance that engineering colleges and schools develop leadership competencies in all its students. This paper is a follow up of a paper presented at WEEF in New Mexico [1] and describes the second phase of an undergraduate Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELP) being implemented at Beihang University in China. This signature program in the new model curriculum aspires to develop engineering leadership competencies in all its undergraduate students. Phase 2 course (ELP II) was offered in the Summer of 2019 incorporating changes decided with data from the first phase. The paper provides continuity to conference attendees and readers in the ELP implementation and results being achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under the background of accelerating new industrial revolution, China's higher engineering education is in urgent need of cultivating a group of innovative talents in engineering science and technology. In order to improve the quality of engineering education, China proposed the "new engineering research and practice project" in June 2017. This study attempted to adopt systematic review based on 207 projects of engineering superior universities in China's new engineering research and practice project for text analysis, and discovered the common key issues such as mechanism issues, ability issues and discipline issues that are concerned in existing projects. The research findings are as follows: (1) The commonness of construction schemes is emerging. In terms of mechanism construction, the mechanism of collaborative education receives the most attention, while the talent ability pays more attention to the cultivation of soft ability; (2) The overall design of the projects are somewhat lacking innovation and features, and certain construction schemes are similar, failing to effectively combine the advantages of universities and disciplines to serve local industries and truly show its characteristics; (3) Most of the construction plans are aimed at the transformation of traditional disciplines, and there is little construction of corresponding disciplines for certain national key industries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]