{"id":13593,"date":"2023-01-23T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T14:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=13593"},"modified":"2023-01-23T10:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:56:38","slug":"elizabethtown-college-joins-kern-entrepreneurial-engineering-network-keen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2023\/01\/23\/elizabethtown-college-joins-kern-entrepreneurial-engineering-network-keen\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Joins Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The College\u2019s School of Engineering, Math & Computer Science is KEEN\u2019s newest partner<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Elizabethtown College recently became the newest member to join the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), a national partnership of engineering programs focused on developing and promoting innovation in engineering education for the good of society.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

KEEN is a selective network of approximately 50 partner institutions across the United States with a shared vision of equipping engineering students with not only technical skills but also an \u201centrepreneurial mindset.\u201d Elizabethtown joins Pennsylvania colleges including Bucknell, Lehigh, Villanova, and Drexel Universities in the network.<\/p>\n

\u201cElizabethtown College\u2019s School of Engineering, Math & Computer Science empowers its students to embrace an entrepreneurial mindset as they envision their goals,\u201d Elizabethtown College Dean of Engineering, Math & Computer Science Sara Atwood said. \u201cBecoming a KEEN partner provides our exceptional faculty with additional resources to enhance our students\u2019 knowledge and foster innovation and creativity that resonates with our mission of Educate for Service, Engineer for Society.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

KEEN\u2019s mission aims to graduate engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through a lifetime of meaningful work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited that Elizabethtown is now part of KEEN and look forward to their contributions to and future impact on the Network,\u201d KEEN Digital Media Director Michael Johnson said. \u201cThis partnership brings us closer to realizing our mission\u00a0and is a tremendous opportunity to connect entrepreneurially minded approaches to the existing holistic education that Etown engineers receive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each KEEN Partner<\/a> institution is committed to reaching all of its undergraduate engineering students with an entrepreneurial mindset<\/a>.\u00a0Faculty and staff within KEEN contribute to and influence the Engineering Unleashed Community, an online platform of the KEEN network,\u00a0and the broader engineering education ecosystem, reflecting the belief that networks scale impact.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Elizabethtown College\u2019s School of Engineering, Math & Computer Science at etown.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About KEEN<\/strong><\/p>\n

KEEN is the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network, a program of The Kern Family Foundation, based in Wisconsin. The Foundation provided early support for Network activities, the development of the Engineering Unleashed platform and many professional development and networking events to advance entrepreneurial engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The College\u2019s School of Engineering, Math & Computer Science is KEEN\u2019s newest partner Elizabethtown College recently became the newest member to join the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), a national partnership of engineering programs focused on developing and promoting innovation in engineering education for the good of society. KEEN is a selective network of approximately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":13598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-13593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-engineering","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13599,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions\/13599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}