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KEEN RECEIVES GOLD AT 2012 EDISON AWARDS

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:54:22 +0000

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 KEEN network of colleges were President Dan Curran of the University of Dayton, Provost Maria Vaz of Lawrence Technological University, and Professors Sridhar Condoor of St. Louis University and Christopher Kitts of Santa Clara University. Representing the Kern Family Foundation were James Rahn, President, program staff members Drs. Tim Kriewall and Sarah Hanna and Assessment Fellow Dr. David Pistrui. Joining the university and foundation teams were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bonnstetter of Target Training International of Scottsdale, AZ.

Bob Kern Interview

admin — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:59:12 +0000

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

2012 SEE Workshop at ASEE in San Antonio

admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:41:32 +0000

The next Shaping Entrepreneurial Educators (SEE) workshop will be held following the 119th ASEE Conference in San Antonio, TX. Click here for more info.

Weekly Innovation Challenge at SLU Adds a New Element: Student Reflection Blog

Katie Sloan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:55:05 +0000

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 are linked to each weekly challenge, or you may follow this link to view the entire Weekly Innovation Challenge blog directly: http://parks.slu.edu/blogs/weekly-innovation-challenge-blog/

To learn more about the Weekly Innovation Challenge, follow this link: http://parks.slu.edu/about-parks/entrepreneurship-and-innovation/weekly-innovation-challenge/.

Alumni or industry professionals that have competition ideas and would like to make recommendations can contact Brooke Lund at blund@slu.edu or 314-977-7820.

Home Page

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:25:49 +0000

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!

JEEN is Moving

Katie Sloan — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:28:30 +0000

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 will be emailed to you in the coming weeks.

*Access is provided free of charge

KEEN Award Winners for 2011

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:42:19 +0000

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 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
And in the next 60 seconds, I’m going to tell you
About one of the things that we’re doing for KEEN
And it’s one of the things that we think is extreme.

Our one big contribution of all the things we’ve done to date
Is our work with other KEEN schools – how we collaborate.
You heard back in October about creating triple-E.s,
Or “Entrepreneurial Engineering Enterprises” if you please.

We’re having teams of students work together to create
Opportunities to design and build and then to operate
Engineering systems, from space to undersea,
With partners SLU, WPI, Baylor, and of course MSOE.

Now to better prepare our students, to help them really shine
We’re adding in new course, such as Smart Product Design
So if any of this is interesting, and you want to hear some more,
Just grab me in the hallway and I’ll share details galore.

KEEN Changes: Dissolves Board of Advisors

Katie Sloan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:59:21 +0000

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 the Network, in helping those schools author winning proposals and helping in giving guidance to the schools after they have been admitted into the Network. Foundation staff now feels the Network is at a point in its maturation where we are no longer able to effectively utilize the advisors as they have previously served us. KEEN therefore said thanks to the advisors at the Fall KEEN meeting and awarded them plaques of appreciation for their valuable service.

Summer, Fall KEEN Meetings Set

Jeff Blessing — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:43:39 +0000

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.

LTU to Host Seminars on Sustainability

Jeff Blessing — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:47:40 +0000

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?

admin — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:04:30 +0000

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.

2011-1-3 Workshop on Shaping Entrepreneurial Engineers (SEE)

Jeff Blessing — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:36:56 +0000

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:

easily transportable learning modules;
classroom activities and simulations; and
restructuring your course content and delivery.

Click here for a flyer on this exciting session at the 2011 KEEN Winter Meeting.

Teaching Innovation

Greg Leman — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:58:55 +0000

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.

Video Tutorial: How to Use KEENnetwork.com

Jeff Blessing — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:33:26 +0000

The following video is an introduction to some of the features available on the KEENnetwork.com website.

What Motivates People in General and Entrepreneurs in Particular

Tim Kriewall — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:51:42 +0000

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

iFoundry at UIUC: The Olin Effect

Jeff Blessing — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:37:55 +0000

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.