A KEEN Rising Star is a faculty member with less than 10 years of experience who has gone above and beyond to equip undergraduate engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset (EM) to create personal, economic, and societal value for others.
Perhaps this is you, a colleague, or a peer at another KEEN Partner institution!
Phase 1: Campus KEEN Rising Star
Meet previous Campus KEEN Rising Stars!
Phase 2: National KEEN Rising Star
The top awardee of the National KEEN Rising Star Award receives:
The two additional awardees of the National KEEN Rising Star Award receive:
Dr. Kaitlin Mallouk, Dr. Erin Henslee, and Dr. Jennifer O'Neil were our 2022 KEEN Rising Stars. Learn how they are making a substantial difference in entrepreneurial engineering education.
Heath LeBlanc, Reva Johnson, and Andrew Sloboda were our 2021 KEEN Rising Stars. Learn how they are making a substantial difference in entrepreneurial engineering education.
Cristi Bell-Huff, Blake Hylton, and Cheryl Bodnar were our 2020 KEEN Rising Stars. Read their stories to see how they're making a substantial difference in entrepreneurial engineering education.
Amy Trowbridge, Sarah Wodin-Schwartz, and Justin Henriques were our 2019 KEEN Rising Stars. Learn about their work with the entrepreneurial mindset and how they are helping students understand that the world is much greater than their campus.