Welcome to the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network website. Here you’ll find resources for KEEN members, to assist in the mission of teaching and practicing entrepreneurship at undergraduate engineering and technology programs across the U.S. Upon login, users can download, modify, and upload files for sharing with others in the network. The site also features news, events, and descriptions of the KEEN program. Enjoy your visit!
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Congratulations again to the 2011 Wolf Pack Award winners!
For your convenience, an electronic attendee list has been created and is available on the 2012 KEEN Winter Conference event page. And for those of you who missed the 1 minute summary of activities on KEEN campuses, here’s the one from Chris Kitts at Santa Clara University that stole the show: My name is Chris K, and I’m from SCU Our one big contribution of all the things we’ve done to date We’re having teams of students work together to create Now to better prepare our students, to help them really shine Check the Upcoming Events in the upper right-hand corner of the website for details on the next Shaping Entrepreneurial Engineers (SEE) and Fall KEEN meetings; both held in the Greater Milwaukee area. PRESS_RELEASE_SOS-2011 Lawrence Tech will host Seminars on Sustainability (SOS) on February 21-25, 2011, during Engineer’s and Entrepreneurship Week, at Lawrence Technological University and Engineering Society of Detroit’s Headquarters in Southfield, Michigan. Conference goals include learning about and assessing sustainability efforts in Michigan in the areas of S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Education, Art, Architecture, Mathematics, and Management). For information, registration, and sponsorship opportunities, visit www.sos2011.ltu.edu and see CALL_FOR_SOS-2011_PRESENTATIONS and SOS-2011_SPEAKER_FORM Is American Industry Ready for Entrepreneurially Minded Engineers? In a one-page document (see above link) Dawn Tabat, long-time Chief Operating Officer for Mr. Robert Kern during the growth years of Generac Power Systems, who has retained her position after the sale of the company, gives her answer to the question. Learn HOW TO incorporate INNOVATION and the ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET into your classroom in this hands-on workshop. Learn HOW TO integrate best practices, new teaching pedagogies, and cases into traditional as well as nontraditional courses. These highly effective techniques have been distilled from the engineering programs at twenty Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) institutions. Learn HOW TO guide students in the creation of innovative, consumer-need driven products, processes, and services that have high-value to both individuals and society. The interactive session includes:
Click here for a flyer on this exciting session at the 2011 KEEN Winter Meeting. The attached PDF on “Teaching Innovation” was brought to my attention this summer by a colleague, and it gives great data-driven impetus for integrating engineers and business students (as well as Law) during grad school, to create MUCH more entrepreneurially minded engineering scientists. At Baylor we have in parallel created similar team-based, real-world collaborations, but have chosen to use undergrads as well as graduate students (MBAs) While we lack the Law School partnership, we have added cross-cultural learning by taking the program to China for Summers. Having just gotten back from spending 6 weeks of boot-camp intensity with 11 students from Engineering and Computer Science, 4 from Information Systems and another 10 from the B-School (5 grad and 5 undergrad) I can tell you that putting them to this scale of test works wonders in their learning. The following video is an introduction to some of the features available on the KEENnetwork.com website.
Daniel Pink, author of The Whole New Mind has a new book called Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. I am uploading an audio interview with Dan for which I received permission to post it to our website. (I noticed a couple other interviews with Dan are on YouTube, too.) I encourage you to listen to this 16-minute audio interview. My son-in-law claims Pink received his insights from me (or I from him) as we are very consistent in the messages we deliver. Needless to say, I was flattered, but it really shows that everything I know, I’ve learned from others. Used with permission from GiANT Impact, www.giantimpact.com and the Maximum Impact Club, www.mileaderonline.com Interview with Dan Pink on Motivators Tim The KEEN Regional Conference at Lawrence Technological University on Friday, March 5th focused on changes KEEN institutions have made to integrate the entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurship into the curriculum. Faculty members were invited to present units they have developed, projects added to courses, new course materials or media, and other modifications to courses. 37 faculty members from Lawrence Tech, Kettering, University of Detroit, Ohio Northern, Calvin College, and Saint Louis University were at the meeting. We have made these presentations available online so that the entire KEEN Network may view them. Content includes powerpoint files as well as video of the original presentations. Please visit the conference website to virtually attend our conference! If you have questions, please contact me at khayes@ltu.edu or 248-204-2415 [Katie Hayes]. In his presentation, David Goldberg presents the first year results of the iFoundry program at UIUC, which is modeled after Olin College of Engineering’s first year freshman experience (where freshmen are asked to form teams and use their talents to solve a challenging engineering problem that the group selects). David’s PowerPoint slide deck is stored inside this post. Many were interested in viewing the Special Short Course on Patent Fundamentals that was presented by Prof. Mohammed Islam Friday, November 5, 2009. It has come to my attention that not everyone received this announcement. If you did – I truly apologize for this duplicate message. The video and slides are available for viewing on the web, for alumni and current students, here: https://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/alumni/patents Login: eecspatents Kettering University’s terms are but eleven weeks long, allowing for forty hours of instruction. Four sections of the course over two years have proved that students can appreciate the risks, processes, and rewards of entrepreneurship in this short time frame. Students begin with a self-created idea around which to build a business, vote for best ideas, form teams (companies), and pursue the projects to develop a business plan for presentation at the conclusion of the term. Alternately, some teams are provided industrial patents to commercialize as examples of intrapreneurship. Evaluation of the results by faculty outside the course and the supplier of the patents indicate that, indeed, you can teach entrepreneurship in forty hours. This paper provides examples of student projects and discusses the project development process. Recently Foundation President Jim Rahn connected with the President of the Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence, Rick O’Donnell. They encouraged Tim and me to share the AFEE resources with you. Most of what is below is directly from Mr. O’Donnell. While all the resources could serve various purposes in your programs, the Acton Guides and the Acton Hero site seem most closely aligned with the KEEN mission. www.actonguides.org –best notes and articles, as well as an e-mail tool to help you manage networking and mentoring requests. These notes were given to 90,000 students and other young aspiring entrepreneurs in 2009. Did you see the press on UDM’s new 7-course graduate curriculum on Electric Vehicle Engineering? See a sampling below: The Detroit Free-Press (11/25) reports, “Ford Motor Co. and the University of Detroit Mercy announced Tuesday that they have developed a new seven-course advanced electric vehicle program to help Ford and other engineers develop the skills needed to build tomorrow’s electric cars.” Derrick Kuzak, Ford’s group vice president of global product development, “said the industry’s push toward electric vehicles is creating the most fundamental change in the automotive engineering world in at least 15 years,” and that “as a result, engineers trained to develop and integrate the new systems used in electric vehicles are in high demand.” Continue reading UDM, Ford Develop Electric Vehicle Engineering Program |
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