Professor Yanko Kranov receives 2025 Engineering Unleashed Fellowship

Dr. Yanko Kranov, Assistant Teaching Professor of the Engineering department, was selected by the Engineering Unleashed community as 2025 Engineering Unleashed Fellow, He is one of twenty-nine engineering faculty from twenty-three institutions across the US to receive this honor.

The fellowship is recognition of a commitment to developing engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset (EM). It is awarded as part of the Engineering Unleashed initiative, which is a community of engineering faculty and staff who are bringing EM to undergraduate engineering programs throughout the nation. This community is powered by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), which is a partnership of 70 colleges and universities dedicated to graduating engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through a lifetime of meaningful work.

The Fellowship is accompanied by an institutional award amounting to $10,000 grant from the Kern Family Foundation, with the recipient as Principal Investigator, to advance the impact of his project.