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and prepare students for being exceptional contributors to future employers. The principal elements of this process are re-engineering ourintroductory course Exploring Engineering, creating a new set of courses around the theme of IDEAS (Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship, Application, and Systems), offering a regular series of entrepreneurially minded extracurricularcompetitions, and ongoing efforts to introduce more faculty to new opportunities for their courses. All of these elements will lead to the creation of a KEEN Entrepreneuially Minded Engineer certificate program. On-boarding and Sustaining Faculty Creating and Deploying IDEAS Studio Electives
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