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Leadership Program

Activities

Developing your leadership knowledge, skills, and attitudes 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 below include opportunities to develop your leadership approach.

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.

Spring 2026 Semester

  • Engineering Leadership Development Series
    • Covers Teamworking, Communication and Self-Awareness
  • Friday March 20, 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM [Lunch will be Provided]
  • RSVP Link 
  • Conference Outline (Session Titles and Descriptions Coming Soon!)
    • Check-in 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
    • Session 1: 8:30 - 9:25 AM
    • Session 2: 9:35 - 10:30 AM
    • Session 3: 10:40 - 11:35
    • Session 4: 11:45 AM - 12:40 PM
    • Lunch 12:40 PM
    • Conference Adjourns 1:30 PM

This workshop series will help you earn up to four (4) badges contributing to earning the College of Engineering Leadership Challenge badges.

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 earning your leadership challenge badge, email us at egrlead@cpp.edu.