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NEW YORK CITY – The twenty colleges and universities that comprise the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) were awarded a Gold Edison Award in the category of Collaborative Networks and Support on Thursday, April 26. The award was announced during the Edison Awards 25th anniversary celebration last week in New York City. Representing the [...] [...] [ May 7, 2012 8:00 am to May 8, 2012 1:30 pm. ] Registration for the DCN Commercialization Workshop, to be held May 7-8 on WPI’s campus, is now open! (See DCN-Commercialization-Wkshp-WPI) This workshop is a follow up to the presentation at the KEEN Winter Conference on “Beyond Innovation: Commercialization of Technology.” It will offer an overview of the process of bringing technology to market from the point of [...] [...] In the early days of KEEN the following interview was conducted with Mr. Robert Kern to describe his vision for the KEEN network. Click the following link to download the video or click on the viewer to watch it on the website. BobKernInterview [...] The next Shaping Entrepreneurial Educators (SEE) workshop will be held following the 119th ASEE Conference in San Antonio, TX. Click here for more info. [...] [ June 14, 2012; 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] Shaping Entrepreneurial Engineers (SEE) Faculty Workshop The next workshop will be held following the 119th ASEE Conference in San Antonio, TX Grand Hyatt Hotel – June 14, 2012 Purpose SEE workshops exist to better prepare faculty to equip their students to be entrepreneurial engineers in the workforce. The specific objective of the June 2012 Summer SEE Workshop is to [...] [...] The Weekly Innovation Challenge planning team at Saint Louis University has added a student reflection post-challenge element. After each challenge, students are now asked to blog about their experience. Professor Sridhar Condoor explained that the change was made in order to gain a better understanding of what students are learning and taking away from each challenge. The student post-challenge reflection blogs [...] [...]
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 [...] [...] The Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship (JEEN) is moving to http://www.ingentaconnect.com/. After March 1st, you will need a user-name and password for electronic access to JEEN content on the new site. If you wish to gain access* to JEEN content, please Click HERE and submit your request by this Friday, February 10, 2010. The user name and password [...] [...] Congratulations again to the 2011 Wolf Pack Award winners! Gonzaga University (Most Improved) Patricia Killen, Gonzaga University (Friend of KEEN) Chris Kitts, Santa Clara University (Outstanding Faculty Member) Saint Louis University (Best in Class) 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 [...] [...] This year, 2011, has seen a number of Network-changing milestones. One that brings with it mixed feelings is the dissolution of our KEEN Board of Advisors. The Board consisted of Mac Banks, Bob Hisrich, David Pistrui, Liz Kisenwether and Rich Nazarian. The advisors have been instrumental in helping identify engineering schools to be invited into [...] [...] [ April 18, 2012 5:00 pm to April 20, 2012 12:00 pm. ] Come to Milwaukee School of Engineering as we continue our work on assessment of the KEEN Student Outcomes (KSOs); as we strive to generate Entrepreneurially-Minded Engineers (EMEs). Participants will arrive on the 18th for an informal dinner, followed by a full day (including lunch and dinner) on the 19th, and half day including lunch on [...] [...] [ January 5, 2012 8:00 am to January 7, 2012 1:00 pm. ] The 2012 Winter KEEN Conference is scheduled for January 5-6, 2012 with a pre-conference SEE workshop on January 3-4, 2012 and a post-conference development meeting on January 7, 2012. This conference will take place in Orlando, FL at the Renaissance Orlando at Sea World Registration is open from October 17 – November 23. For more information please visit the [...] [...] [ March 29, 2012 6:00 pm to March 30, 2012 8:00 pm. ] Attend ICE GU (click for info)The objective of the ICE Materials workshop is to create and share active learning exercises and curriculum changes that introduce EME concepts into Materials courses. The workshop starts Thurs March 29 with a reception in downtown Spokane. The workshop will take place during the day on Friday March 30 at [...] [...] [ April 20, 2012 5:00 pm to April 22, 2012 2:00 pm. ] Gateway23-2012a (click for info): Since its start in 1987, Saint Louis University’s Gateway Series for Entrepreneurship Research has been entrepreneurship’s “think tank” promoting advances in scholarship on entrepreneurship and related disciplines. At the Gateway conference, the keynote speaker lays a general foundation. The keynote address starts the meeting and provides a common frame of reference [...] [...] [ March 30, 2012; 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] EME-1st-Yr-Exp-At-Kettering (click for info): You are invited to attend the Second KEEN Regional Conference to be held on Friday, March 30, 2012, at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. This event is co-hosted by Lawrence Technological University and Kettering University. The theme of this conference is the “Entrepreneurially-Minded First-Year Experience”. Program developers at many KEEN institutions have [...] [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...] [...] |
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