Faculty Development
20 Workshops. 4 Cities. 4 Virtual Options.
Transform your teaching, research, or service in just one year!
When you take an Engineering Unleashed Faculty Development National Workshop (EUFD), you get empowered to create long-lasting value with entrepreneurial mindset (EM). Look forward to expert facilitation, actionable, adaptable strategies, and collaboration with faculty from across the nation. Over the span of a year, you'll then work to bring a project to life on your campus with input and guidance from coaches and fellow participants.
In addition to the Golden Ticket sponsorships that each KEEN Partner receives, there are two additional ways to receive complimentary tickets for the 2025 workshops.
Learn more about the available sponsorships. Note: these are not just for KEEN Partners!
The 2025 Workshop Catalog
Workshop Registration Opens In Early 2025
Learn more about the 20 available workshops below.
Integrating Curriculum with Entrepreneurial Mindset (ICE)
ICE introduces faculty to the framework of entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) centered on curiosity, connections, and creating value. Participants in ICE workshops will apply the principles learned to create and share a teaching technique for a particular topic in their discipline.
We have five different opportunities for you to take an ICE workshop!
- May 19 - 22, 2025, Virtual. Learn More
- June 9 - 12, 2025, Cincinnati, OH. Learn More
- June 16 - 19, 2025. Leesburg, VA. Learn More
- July 21 - 24, 2025. Minneapolis, MN. Learn More
- August 4 - 7, 2025. Milwaukee, WI. Learn More
EM Assessment with COMPASS (EMAC)
The EM Assessment with COMPASS (Cooperative eMerging Partnership for Assessment Support and Success of the 3Cs) workshop will guide participants through assessment best practices and enable faculty to design and implement an assessment plan for their EM curriculum. The insights into assessment strategies and tools will empower participants to confidently assess the 3Cs.
- When: May 27 - 30, 2025
- Where: Virtual
Unraveling the Value Tensions in Sustainability (UVT)
Unraveling the Value Tensions in Sustainability (UVT) will guide and help you incorporate sustainability into your classroom through EM, so students can learn how to make decisions in the presence of conflicting values. Sustainability is a value, and there is, per se, not a single approach to enhance it, incorporate it and discuss it. EM is key to understanding sustainability from an open-ended, non-exclusive lens, comprehending the needs and demands from a diversity of stakeholders, recognizing the presence of value tensions between stakeholders, and making decisions to best address engineering challenges and innovate in sustainability.
- When: June 9 - 12, 2025
- Where: Cincinnati, OH
Entrepreneurial Mindset in the First Year of Engineering (EMIFY)
The Entrepreneurial Mindset in the First Year of Engineering (EMIFY) workshop will guide you through developing EM interventions for your first-year engineering courses and students that embrace your specific context while also gaining skills to adapt any EM intervention to meet the needs of your students. Through participating you will expand your network to support collaboration, continuous innovation, and shared best practices among the community of first-year instructors committed to EM integration. EMIFY will provide you with the tools necessary to not only implement EM but sustain and expand its influence in your first-year engineering program.
- When: June 9 - 12, 2025
- Where: Cincinnati, OH
Project-based Entrepreneurial Learning (PBEL)
The Project-based Entrepreneurial Learning (PBEL) workshop will promote and support you in the advancement of project-based learning on your campus in ways that develop engineering students’ entrepreneurial mindsets. Participating provides you an opportunity to learn strategies for fostering entrepreneurial mindset through project-based curricular design and teaching. PBEL will guide you through crafting a project-based learning plan that promotes student curiosity and helps them make connections while considering your students’ specific contexts.
- When: June 9 - 12, 2025
- Where: Cincinnati, OH
Unleashing Academic Change (UAC)
Whether you are an individual or a team, a novice educator, an experienced educator, or anyone in between, this customized, research-based, practice-oriented workshop can help you utilize your entrepreneurial mindset to draw skills from fields outside of your disciplinary expertise, to help you expand the impact of your EM-based project! The ultimate goal of the Unleashing Academic Change (UAC) workshop is to help participants like you understand and leverage the context within which effective academic change can happen and to equip you with a suite of tools that can support your work.
- June 9 - 13, 2025
- Where: Virtual
EML and Student Research (EMRE)
Curiosity lies at the heart of research for the academic entrepreneur! EML and Student Research (EMRE) will stimulate your thinking and intentionality regarding new venues for disciplinary research. EMRE will examine structures in which there are multiple beneficiaries and learning opportunities for stakeholders, including your students and institution.
- When: June 16 - 19, 2025
- Where: Leesburg, VA
Embedding EM in Civil Engineering: Structures and Mechanics (EMCE)
Do you struggle at times to incorporate the entrepreneurial mindset (EM) into your civil engineering courses? The goal of Embedding an EM in Civil Engineering - Structures and Mechanics (EMCE) is to illustrate the presence of curiosity, connections, and creating value within the context of several civil engineering courses, and create an opportunity to embed entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) into a series of civil engineering courses ranging from the first year all the way to capstone.
- When: June 16 - 19, 2025
- Where: Leesburg, VA
Making with AI (MAI)
The Making with AI (MAI) workshop will introduce you to methods of integrating AI into making activities through immersive, low fidelity mini-EM making. These low fidelity making activities centered around various disciplines of engineering will allow you to envision a novel EM-based making activities for your students. This workshop will also demonstrate how AI tools can help in reducing the additional load associated with developing making activities by creating assessment tools for hands-on modules.
- When: June 16 - 19, 2025
- Where: Leesburg, VA
Real World Experiential Learning: At Scale for Sustainability (ELfS)
Evidence shows that real-world experiential learning is highly effective at developing topical knowledge, practical skills, and mindsets. This is particularly relevant for the development of the knowledge, skills, and mindsets required by engineers to effectively tackle complex social, economic, and environmental challenges (we use “sustainability” as a shorthand for these).
The Real World Experiential Learning: At Scale for Sustainability (ELfS) workshop will equip you with the pedagogies and design principles of the experiential learning at scale pedagogy. You'll develop and deliver your own successful and impactful EM & sustainability-related experiential learning program back at your institution.
- When: July 7 - 11, 2025
- Where: Virtual
Learning from Failure with Mastery-Based Learning (LFF)
We increasingly see engineering students who are afraid of failure, who avoid taking risks, and who focus on getting A’s instead of engaging in the difficult and sometimes contrarian act of learning. Fostering a productive failure mindset is an ongoing challenge to developing an EM in our students. The Learning from Failure with Mastery-Based Learning (LFF) workshop will teach you how to create and implement teaching tools that will help students develop a mindset of productive failure and risk-taking at one of four scales: 1) single-lecture activities, 2) course projects, 3) individual courses taught with mastery-based learning, and 4) cohesive competency-based curriculum.
- When: July 21 - 24, 2025
- Where: Minneapolis, MN
Project Unlock: Leveraging Industrial Advisory Boards to Infuse EM (PULIAB)
Industry Advisory Boards (IABs) are often underutilized by academic programs, and advisory board members often wish to contribute more than they currently do. IAB members’ contributions are often in the form of advice, but they, along with the academic program, seek a true partnership – thus we seek to transform IABs into Industrial Partnership Boards.
The Project Unlock: Leveraging IABs to Infuse EM (PULIAB) workshop will teach you how to leverage industry expertise and experiences to integrate entrepreneurial mindset (EM) into your academic programs in a meaningful and authentic manner. You will learn how the Project Unlock method builds trust and the ability to co-create between industry and academia.
- When: July 21 - 24, 2025
- Where: Minneapolis, MN
Teaching, Deconstructing, and Integrating: Improving Instructional Engagement with Engineering Tools (TDI)
The workshop Teaching, Deconstructing, and Integrating: Improving Instructional Engagement with Engineering Tools (TDI) will engage you in the Teach, Deconstruct, and Integrate process. TDI provides a framework for you to think about and teach how engineering tools (e.g., CAD and Excel) are sociotechnical in nature, exploring first the simple mechanics of the tool. The TDI process aims to spark curiosity for learning, collaborating, and devising new engineering educational content. This kind of interdisciplinary thinking will enhance engineers’ engagement with learning about tools by making their stories relevant, interesting, and perhaps a bit controversial.
- When: July 21 - 24, 2025
- Where: Minneapolis, MN
Enhancing Inclusive Teaching Practices Through EML (EIT)
The Enhancing Inclusive Teaching Practices Through EML (EIT) workshops supports educators like you towards a more inclusive and diverse STEM community through entrepreneurially minded learning (EML). The goal of this workshop is to demonstrate the integration of EML and how it can be leveraged to enhance inclusion in the classroom such that you are able to develop an implementation and coaching plan that serves your own context. EIT provides a space for you to discuss, ideate, and be open-minded to new ideas.
- When: August 4 - 7, 2025
- Where: Milwaukee, WI
Design Your Academic Life (DYAL)
The journey of a career in the academy can be challenging to navigate. While its self-guided, open-ended autonomy is one of its most attractive qualities, how do you know when to renew or rebalance your efforts? The Design Your Academic Life (DYAL) workshop helps academics like you assess and align your personal and professional lives so you can make better connections, be curious in ways that make the most impact, and create value where it matters most. The workshop also provides you a cohort and community for encouragement and accountability so that everyone feels safe taking risks and sharing successes and failures.
- When: August 4 - 7, 2025
- Where: Milwaukee, WI
EM Engineering Education Research and Scholarship (EERS)
The EM Engineering Education Research and Scholarship (EERS) workshop will teach you about the ways in which the engineering education discipline, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) work, and engineering education research create value in higher education. It will engage you in productive, curiosity-driven exploration to identify an area of interest to you within engineering education research or SOTL work. As a result you will connect your interests to practices learned in the EERS workshop to conceptualize, design, and implement a SOTL or engineering education research study within your own contexts.
- When: August 4 - 7, 2025
- Where: Milwaukee, WI