Backus, E. C., & Fick, J. P., & Atchison, J. S., & Torlapati, J., & Parker, P. J., & Prosise, J. F. (2025, June), Project Unlock - A Journey to your New Industry Partnership Board  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . https://peer.asee.org/57080

\bibitem{asee_peer_57080}
  Backus, E. C., \& Fick, J. P., \& Atchison, J. S., \& Torlapati, J., \& Parker, P. J., \& Prosise, J. F. (2025, June), \emph{Project Unlock - A Journey to your New Industry Partnership Board}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada .
  https://peer.asee.org/57080

Erik Carl Backus, Jessica P.M. Fick, Jennifer S Atchison, Jagadish Torlapati, Philip J. Parker P.E., and Jodi F. Prosise.  "Project Unlock - A Journey to your New Industry Partnership Board".  2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/57080 Internet.  19 Aug, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_57080}
  Erik Carl Backus, Jessica P.M. Fick, Jennifer S Atchison, Jagadish Torlapati, Philip J. Parker P.E., and Jodi F. Prosise.
  "Project Unlock - A Journey to your New Industry Partnership Board".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/57080 Internet.  19 Aug, 2025

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AB  - Through a collaborative, co-created process, a distinct methodology has been developed, for moving what have been Industry Advisory Boards (IAB), into Industry Partnership Boards (IPB).  A multi-institutional effort, supported by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN); this method has already directly impacted institutions and engineering programs across the United States.  Applied to over 40 Partnership Projects across 7 institutions of higher education, this paper will: a) discuss this method, b) provide an analysis of the impacts of the projects undertaken through its use, and c) provide case study examples of the conversion process from advisement to partnership within the engineering programs at select institutions.  The Project Unlock Method™, coupled with the KEEN Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) framework, provides a pathway for engineering programs to leverage the expertise and insight of industry in their programs and curriculum.  By shifting IABs from reactionary advisory roles to active partnership roles, the approach demonstrates how academic-industry interactions can become more adaptive and impactful.  This paper also shares current efforts from a Project Unlock ™ training involving over 15 institutions that have now committed to applying this method at their college or university.  The paper concludes with an exploration of future avenues of this effort to transform higher educational engineering programs to build both the Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM); and enriching, resourcing, and enabling future engineering students in the years to come.
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