Leadership and Character in Engineering

The Program’s collaboration with the Wake Forest Department of Engineering began in 2018 with a two generous grants from the Kern Family Foundation and the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN). The principal investigator (PI) of the grant, founding Engineering Department Chair Olga Pierrakos, integrated leadership and character into the very heart of the engineering education experience from the beginning of the department’s inception in 2017. Since then, all engineering faculty and all engineering students have participated in these efforts. This work continues to deepen and grow in collaboration with the Program for Leadership and Character in the Professional Schools. For more details, visit the Department of Engineering’s Cultivating Leaders page.