{"id":22238,"date":"2026-08-20T08:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=22238"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:04:09","slug":"elizabethtown-college-professor-named-keen-engineering-unleashed-fellow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/elizabethtown-college-professor-named-keen-engineering-unleashed-fellow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Professor Named KEEN Engineering Unleashed Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Assistant Teaching Professor of Physics Judson Wagner has been named a 2026 Engineering Unleashed Fellow by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN),<\/a> in recognition of his dedicated commitment to innovation and leadership in undergraduate engineering education.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s cohort is composed of 30 individuals from 23 higher education institutions across the country. Fellows will travel to an in-person meeting from Oct. 27 through 29, to collaborate and share their ideas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thrilled to see Dr. Wagner\u2019s leadership recognized through this fellowship and excited about the opportunity it provides to extend this work beyond our campus,\u201d Elizabethtown College Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science and Professor of Engineering, Sara Atwood said. \u201cThis fellowship highlights both the strength of our partnership with the KEEN Network and Etown\u2019s growing role as a contributor to national conversations about engineering education.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wagner was awarded the honor for his work in founding the KEEN Mindset Mentor program<\/a>, a peer leadership model in Etown\u2019s School of Engineering and Computer Science<\/a>, supported by KEEN. The fellowship provides Wagner with a monetary grant and professional support to advance his ongoing project, aimed at large-scale dissemination and adoption of the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis fellowship signifies that something happening at Elizabethtown College is worth other institutions paying attention to, and that something is our students,\u201d Wagner said. \u201cOur Mindset Mentors are students trained to help their classmates learn how to learn, and this fellowship gives their work a national platform.”<\/p>\n

Participants in the program\u2019s two tiers, KEEN Mindset Mentors and Engineering Mindset Associates, are trained to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and insightful mentorship skills to support their peers, both academically and socially.<\/p>\n

During his fellowship, Wagner aims to extend the program in four distinct directions, including formal credentialing of Mindset Mentors, national dissemination of training curriculum, developing a K-12 framework in collaboration with a partner school district, and working with business partners to expand the same training into the workplace setting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want our graduates to leave here as engineers who bring the best out of the people around them,\u201d Wagner said. \u201cThat is what Educate for Service, Engineering for Society sounds like inside a classroom, and this is how we teach toward it.”<\/p>\n

About the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN)<\/a> is a partnership of more than 70 colleges and universities in America focused on reaching undergraduate engineering students with an entrepreneurial mindset. KEEN offers conferences to exchange best practices, collaborative grant work, faculty mentorship, on-campus programs, and ambassadors to professional societies. Elizabethtown College joined KEEN in January 2023.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Assistant Teaching Professor of Physics Judson Wagner has been named a 2026 Engineering Unleashed Fellow by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), in recognition of his dedicated commitment to innovation and leadership in undergraduate engineering education. This year\u2019s cohort is composed of 30 individuals from 23 higher education institutions across the country. Fellows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":22240,"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":[197,70,1350,1946,2155,2156],"class_list":["post-22238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-engineering","tag-etown","tag-etown-engineering","tag-keen","tag-kern-entrepreneurial-engineering-network","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\/22238","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\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22253,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238\/revisions\/22253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}