Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Lynn Morano, Lawrence Technological University; Matthew L. Cole, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

institutions for over a decade-and-a-half. Throughcollaboration and a shared mission to infuse an entrepreneurial mindset (EM) into undergraduateengineering education, KEEN has cultivated this shared mission with more than 55 partnerinstitutions across the United States [15]. Each of these schools are committed to supplementingthe technical skills being taught in the classroom with a mindset that focuses on fosteringcuriosity, connections, and creating value – “the 3 C’s”. The KEEN framework, as shown inTable 1, seeks to describe the beneficial student outcomes that entrepreneurially-minded learningcan bring to engineering undergraduates. Examples of these benefits include the ability torecognize opportunities to create personal, economic and societal

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Warrner, Ball State University; Joe Bradley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University; Anand Nageswaran Bharath, Cummins Engine Company

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Carle Illinois College of Medicine. His research focuses primarily on engineering design/Bio Design collaboration in transdisciplinary teams. He has used and developed tools to study the alignment of products and services with organizational processes as an organization seeks to address needs and bring new products and services to the market.Dr. Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University Sirena Hargrove-Leak is a Professor of Engineering at Elon University. The mission and commitment of Elon University have led her to explore the scholarship of teaching and learning in engineering. More specifically, her current engineering education interests include entrepreneurial mindsets, user-centered design, project-based