<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/fall-2024/innovative-creative-engineering-professor-installed-new-academic-chair.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Innovative, Creative Engineering Professor Installed in New Academic Chair</title><excerpt>Dan Jensen helped establish Westmont’s engineering program and joined the faculty full time in 2021 to direct it and chair the department. In just three years, he has developed the curriculum, guided construction of an engineering facility, grown the number of engineering students, hired professors, recruited an impressive advisory board, and been installed in the James R. and Eleanor S. Allder Chair of Science and Technology. He has also applied for accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/styles/scale_900/public/Dan%20Jensen%20Academic%20Chair.png" alt="Dan Jensen Academic Chair"/>
        </image><caption>Allder family left to right: Annie Allder Kirkby ’85 (B.A., math and physics), Trevor Kirkby ’21 (B.S. math/computer science), David Kirkby, Eleanor Allder, Janet Allder Fredrickson ’83 (B.A., math) and Margaret Allder Blue ’88 (B.S., chemistry). Not pictured: Brad Fredrickson ’80 (B.A., economics and business), Allyson Fredrickson Gomez ’13 (B.S., biology), Kyle Fredrickson ’18 (B.S., math and computer science) and Paul Blue ’88 (B.A., music).</caption><description>FACULTY NEWS Dan Jensen helped establish Westmont’s engineering program and joined the faculty full time in 2021 to direct it and...</description></item>