Prof. Kathryn Hasz named Engineering Unleashed fellow

Professor Kathryn Hasz was recently named a 2024 Engineering Unleashed fellow. She is one of 31 engineering faculty across the US to receive this honor.

The Engineering Unleashed Faculty Development Program highlights entrepreneurially minded learning as central to the development of engineering graduates prepared to meet the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly changing world. Each year, the program attracts more than 300 engineering and STEM faculty who create resources that will help them and intercollegiate colleagues advance the mission to integrate the entrepreneurial mindset into practices that benefit their students, their institutions, and greater society. As part of the workshop, participants identify potential projects and hone their ideas with coaches for up to one year, after which select faculty are nominated and named Engineering Unleashed fellows.

The fellowship is accompanied by a $10,000 institutional award from the Kern Family Foundation, with the recipient as principal investigator, to advance the impact of her project. The project supported by the Engineering Unleashed Fellowship Program is meant to help students integrate computation, experimentation, and simple engineering models. Students will take experimental data from real life, such as the wind speed, and analyze the collected data in MATLAB. Students will compare experimentally collected data to simple engineering models in MATLAB. This work will strengthen the students’ connections between their lived experience, intuition, and engineering training while expanding their use of MATLAB.

The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) is a partnership of undergraduate engineering programs around the United States. KEEN focuses on one mission: to graduate engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through a lifetime of meaningful work. There are currently 66 universities and colleges working together to instill this mindset in engineering students.

The Kern Family Foundation invests in the rising generation of Americans, equipping them to become tomorrow’s leaders and innovators. Established in 1999, the Foundation is based in Wisconsin and invests in fields that impact human flourishing, including medicine, educational leadership, and engineering education.

(This information was taken from engineeringunleashed.com.)

Sponsoring Department, Office, or Organization:

Engineering Department