KEEN faculty are rock stars! You'll find them presenting and delivering keynotes at engineering conferences across the United States, developing and retooling curriculum, writing papers and publishing in journals, and researching new methods to track and assess mindset change in students.
At the heart of all this work is a dedication to make entrepreneurially minded learning commonplace in engineering education so that one day, entrepreneurial engineering is simply engineering.
To help celebrate and recognize faculty achievement, you can nominate individuals from a KEEN Partner school with fewer than 10 years of experience as a faculty member for the KEEN Rising Star Award each year. The KEEN Awards Committee reviews the Campus KEEN Rising Star nominations using the evaluation rubric.
The award goes to the faculty members' institutions, recognizing these individuals who have gone above and beyond to equip undergraduate engineers to create personal, economic, and societal value through the entrepreneurial mindset.
The 2022 nomination period is now closed.
"What I really love about entrepreneurial mindset when we're teaching engineering is it brings back this idea that engineers should be in service to society. Engineers should be solving problems to help people. They should be characterized by their technical excellence, and their service to society."
Learn more about Cristi Bell-Huff, Lecturer and Director of Faculty and Student Training at the Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020 KEEN Rising Star.
"Entrepreneurially minded learning is all about letting the student explore: Giving them open-ended problems, encouraging them to go out and explore their curiosity, make connections with the context of problems, and really focus on doing something for societal benefit."
Learn more about Amy Trowbridge, senior lecturer and director of the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars Program at Arizona State University, 2019 KEEN Rising Star.