<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/fall-2020/designing-strong-and-innovative-engineering-program.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Designing a Strong and Innovative Engineering Program</title><excerpt>Dan Jensen would have attended Westmont if the college had offered engineering. Instead, the Colorado native earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, a master’s in applied mechanical engineering and a doctorate in aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado. He spent 21 years on the faculty at the Air Force Academy and also taught at the University of the Pacific and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. In July 2021, he finally joins the Westmont community to help develop the college’s new engineering program as director and professor of engineering holding an endowed chair.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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