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10/16/2024
Teams from Penn State’s School of Engineering Design and Innovation (SEDI) placed in several categories at the 2024 University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs. The competition is hosted by the Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program.
10/14/2024
A team of engineering researchers led by Scarlett Miller, Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design and Manufacturing, was awarded a five-year, $1.4 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop and scale their inclusive student teaming model to multiple campuses and universities.
10/11/2024
Ibukun Osunbunmi, assistant research professor in the Penn State Leonhard Center, has been named a 2024 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Frontiers in Education New Faculty fellow.
10/11/2024
The Penn State student chapter of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) was awarded first place for the 2024 Samuel Glasstone Award by the ANS Education, Training and Workforce Development Division.
10/11/2024
Several medications are available to treat high blood pressure, but more than 10 million Americans do not respond to the treatments. Tao Zhou, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics and of biomedical engineering at Penn State, received a five-year, $1.83 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to develop a soft and stretchable tissue-like electronic device for the treatment of resistant high blood pressure.
10/11/2024
Spencer Szczesny, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, was recently named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
10/10/2024
Jessica González Vargas, a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Engineering Design and Innovation, is working to improve physician training on one of the most common medical procedures in the United States — placing a central line in a patient’s vein.
10/9/2024
A team of Penn State researchers has been selected to lead a three-year, $8,552,388 multi-institution project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to identify cognitive threats in mixed-reality (MR) systems as part of the Intrinsic Cognitive Security program.
10/8/2024
Rui Zhang, assistant professor of computer science in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Penn State College of Engineering, will focus his NSF CAREER award on developing usable, trustworthy, responsible and safe artificial intelligence that operates under user control, reflects social norms and honors human knowledge.
10/7/2024
Hee Jeung Oh, assistant professor of chemical engineering and of materials science and engineering at Penn State, has been named the 2024 recipient of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Separations Division’s Fractionation Research Inc./John G. Kunesh Award.
10/7/2024
Saptarshi Das, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics and of electrical engineering at Penn State, was featured in a Q&A article by Tech Briefs. The article discussed the research of Das and his team that focused on Heliconius butterflies and how they process two sensory inputs — pheromones and vision — at once to find a mate.
10/4/2024
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year, $2 million Future of Semiconductors (FuSe2) grant to researchers at Penn State and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), to develop wireless communications and sensing platforms through advanced chips and packaging, the process of arranging, enclosing and protecting semiconductor devices.
10/2/2024
To enhance biosensor development via artificial intelligence (AI) and offer STEM education opportunities to K-12 students from underserved communities, the U.S. National Science Foundation recently awarded researchers at Penn State a three-year, $1.5 million grant.
9/30/2024
Penn State civil engineering student teams and one individual placed first or second in five categories at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Region 2 Mid-Atlantic West Symposium in April at George Mason University. Two of those teams were invited to compete at the National ASCE competitions in June at Brigham Young University, where one team went on to place third.
9/30/2024
Sachin Gore, assistant teaching professor of mechanical engineering and director of undergraduate studies for the mechanical engineering department, and Andrea Ragonese, associate teaching professor in the School of Engineering Design and Innovation, were recently named 2024 Engineering Unleashed Fellows.
9/27/2024
This fall, the Millennium Café at Penn State will feature researchers who were awarded Climate Solutions Accelerator workshops by the Penn State Climate Consortium.
9/27/2024
Zifan Zhou and Xuan Wang, both electrical engineering doctoral students at Penn State, received third place in the poster presentation competition at the Closing the Gap: Strategies for Effective Methane Emissions Reduction Symposium.
9/27/2024
Two Penn State aerospace engineering faculty members recently have been named American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) associate fellows.
9/27/2024
Li Li, the Barry and Shirley Isett Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected for two honors from the American Geophysical Union, the world’s largest Earth and space science association, for her scientific contributions to the field of hydrology.
9/25/2024
Using high-speed X-ray imaging, a team of researchers led by Christopher Kube, associate professor of engineering science and of acoustics, captured footage of a cross-section of liquid metal as it cooled. Their results confirmed longstanding hypotheses in the field that through local pressure changes, ultrasonic vibrations encourage air bubbles to increase in number, enlarge, migrate to the surface of a melt pool and pop — increasing the quality of the finished product.
9/24/2024
Anand Sivasubramaniam, distinguished professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, has been named the program committee chair for International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) 2025.
9/24/2024
Penn State researchers have developed a new nanoparticle that can prevent mineral buildup in oil extraction equipment and stabilize a commonly used emulsion, or liquid mixture. This development has the potential to make the oil extraction processes more efficient and less harmful to the environment, according to the team.
9/23/2024
Bert Chandler, professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at Penn State, is one of 11 distinguished researchers recognized by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement as a recipient of the 2024 Cottrell Plus SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery) Award.
9/23/2024
Xiaodong Jia, a Penn State doctoral student in computer science and engineering, received a distinguished paper award at the Association for Computing Machinery Program Language Design and Implementation 2024 conference.
9/20/2024
As a part of its mission to educate and train industry partners and students on computed tomography (CT) scanning, the Center for Quantitative Imaging (CQI) recently supported a three-day additive manufacturing practicum for industry professionals to gain hands-on experience in using 3D X-ray CT scanning.
9/19/2024
The Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering announces the inaugural cohort of students for its new undergraduate research program. The program pairs undergraduate students one-to-one with faculty across the department for the duration of this two-semester, seven-credit program.
9/17/2024
Winters K. Guo, a doctoral student in chemical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, recently won first place in a graduate student paper contest at the American Chemical Society’s national fall meeting.
9/17/2024
Penn State has joined the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), a partnership of more than 65 U.S. colleges and universities with the mission of instilling an entrepreneurial mindset in engineering students.
9/17/2024
A novel neurotechnology treatment known as deep brain stimulation can benefit patients with neurological disorders, but it involves surgical procedures with potential risks. Assessing the risk-benefit tradeoffs and the ethics in making decisions about whether to begin such treatments and when can be tricky for both patients and clinicians.
9/12/2024
Penn State and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have announced the awardees for the 2024-25 cycle of their collaboration program. These awardees comprise four joint projects that connect Penn State and IISc researchers.
9/12/2024
Nine Penn State researchers, including three from the College of Engineering, have been named fellows of the Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE) for 2024.
9/12/2024
Penn State is a global leader in nanomanufacturing workforce development and materials science research, positioning it to support the CHIPS and Science Act’s goals of boosting U.S. semiconductor manufacturing. The Penn State Center for Nanotechnology, Education and Utilization program trains military veterans for careers in a growing microelectronics and semiconductor industry essential for national security.
9/11/2024
Three potentially high-impact, high-risk research projects have been selected to receive seed funding for the latest round of the Huck Innovative and Transformational Seed (HITS) Fund initiative.
9/11/2024
This summer, the Penn State Center for Gas Turbine Research, Education, and Outreach, housed within the Penn State College of Engineering, hosted the Penn State Low-Carbon Power and Propulsion Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at University Park.
9/10/2024
Kristen Fichthorn, the Merrell Fenske Professor of Chemical Engineering and professor of physics, has been invited to give a Symposium X Lecture at the Materials Research Society’s spring meeting, which will be held on April 7-11, 2025, in Seattle.
9/5/2024
The Penn State Board of Trustees Committee on Finance and Investment advanced a proposal today (Sept. 5) to complete a 13,000-square-foot addition and renovation at the Lidia Manson Building at CATO Park to expand the Steady Thermal Aero Research Turbine (START) Lab.
9/5/2024
Ryan Jai Hokimi is one of the many budding entrepreneurs who has tapped into the University’s many resources and networks that exist to help students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members turn their ideas into viable businesses. Jai Hokimi and fellow student Braeden Davidson, a junior pursuing a degree in corporate entrepreneurship and innovation, recently co-founded Saveware, a startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the sales tax refund process for businesses and tax firms.
9/4/2024
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today (Sept. 4) that it will continue to support Penn State’s Center for Three-Dimensional Ferroelectric Microelectronics Manufacturing (3DFeM) as an Energy Frontier Research Center.
9/4/2024
Ray Schaak, DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Penn State Eberly College of Science and professor of chemical engineering, has been awarded the 2025 F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistryfrom the American Chemical Society (ACS).
9/4/2024
Using butterfly and shrimp sight as inspiration, Penn State researchers developed a metasurface, which uses, tiny, antenna-like nanostructures to tailor light and encode the spectral and polarization information of a captured image. They also developed a neural network to decode the images.
9/4/2024
This fall, K-12 educators will team with Penn State faculty and staff to collaborate on ways to teach and implement sustainable efforts in schools during the inaugural Penn State K-12 Sustainability Summit.
9/3/2024
Seventeen graduate students from Penn State have been awarded research fellowships and six undergraduate students from the commonwealth have been awarded scholarships for 2024 from the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC).
9/1/2024
Lauren McPhillips, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of agricultural and biological engineering, was featured in an article from Grid Magazine.
8/30/2024
Reid A. Berdanier has been named director of the Steady Thermal Aero Research Turbine (START) Lab at Penn State, effective Aug. 15.
8/28/2024
Farshad Rajabipour, interim department head and John A. and Harriette K. Shaw Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will be co-editor in chief for the Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (JMCE), effective Oct. 1.
8/28/2024
Acoustics research at Penn State has begun to sound like science fiction, with mentions of holograms, vortex beams and a remote whispering beam. Yun Jing, professor of acoustics in the Penn State College of Engineering, recently received a three-year, $418,136 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to study nonlinear acoustic effects in wavefront shaping.
8/27/2024
Electrical engineering doctoral student Ardanvan Javid was awarded second place in the student paper contest at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
8/27/2024
The STEM Libraries at Penn State University Park have announced their calendar of events for the fall 2024 semester.
8/26/2024
Nitrate, a common chemical compound that occurs naturally and is found in plants, water and soil, can break down into molecules harmful to human, animal and ecological health and accumulate as a pollutant. contamination in streams, lakes and estuaries is a critical problem in many agricultural watersheds, but water-quality data is limited, making monitoring stream health and making management decisions difficult, according to researchers at Penn State. To enhance available data, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a four-year, $650,000 grant to a research team at Penn State.
8/23/2024
On Sept. 11 and 12, Penn State IT, Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT), the College of Engineering, and the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) are partnering with Top Hat to offer a series of workshops designed to help faculty increase engagement in their courses.
8/21/2024
In a video produced by WPSU, Bill Burgos, professor of civil and environmental engineering, discussed the toxic effects of abandoned coal mine drainage on the Moshannon Creek.
8/21/2024
A paper co-authored by Sven Schmitz, the Boeing/A.D. Welliver Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Penn State, and Penn State aerospace alumnus Jason Cornelius of the NASA Ames Research Center, received the Vertical Flight Society (VFS) San Francisco Bay Area Chapter’s Velkoff Award for Outstanding Technical Paper.
8/20/2024
In the latest episode of Invent Penn State’s Dare to Disrupt podcast, host Ryan Newman interviews Jason Warner, the former chief technology officer (CTO) of GitHub and current co-founder and chief executive officer of generative artificial intelligence (AI) company poolside.
8/20/2024
Penn State has announced the selection of 23 faculty members for the Penn State Emerging Academic Leaders (PSEAL) program for fall 2024. This initiative highlights individuals who have demonstrated exceptional potential for academic leadership and innovation within their fields.
8/19/2024
Penn State University Libraries’ Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) has named 13 recipients of the 2024?Faculty Engagement Award?with this year’s theme of “Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Teaching.” Farnaz Tehranchi, assistant professor in the School of Engineering Design and Innovation, has been named as one of the recipients.
8/19/2024
Invent Penn State’s?Summer Founders Program, which provides each student team with a $15,000 grant to work on their startups over the summer at?Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank, concluded with a final "Demo Day” on Aug. 7.
8/16/2024
In March 2024, Myers and Henderson decided to take the leap and launch AmpliFLY Video, an indoor drone video production company servicing businesses interested in showcasing their unique spaces.
8/15/2024
The Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team (AVT) took home multiple wins, including third place overall, in its third year of the AutoDrive Challenge II, which empowers student teams to develop and test a fully autonomous passenger vehicle on a controlled urban driving course over a weeklong competition.
8/12/2024
Gina Noh, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, was recognized as Young Talent at an international conference on catalysis.
8/12/2024
Julianna Simon, associate professor of acoustics and of biomedical engineering, has been named the interim director of acoustics at Penn State. Penn State News spoke with Simon hear her perspectives on the field of acoustics, the direction and goals for the Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics and Simon’s own professional background and research.
8/12/2024
Penn State and Shell USA Inc. have announced the launch of a collaboration that will support efforts across the University’s mission of research, education and community impact
8/12/2024
Placing a central line in a patient’s vein to receive fluids or medicine is one of the most common medical procedures, with more than 5 million performed each year in the United States. Researchers in Penn State’s Colleges of Engineering and of Medicine aim to reduce error rates in central-line placement by designing and implementing a novel robotic training program that uses life-like manikins and real-time feedback to simulate patient scenarios.
8/12/2024
Penn State University Libraries Open Publishing has launched Geomorphica, a Diamond Open Access journal that promotes discourse and disseminates research in geomorphology, the study of landforms.
8/8/2024
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) has awarded $600,000 to Penn State’s Silicon Carbide Innovation Alliance (SCIA) to develop a series of educational courses, workshops, and paid academic and industrial internships focused on workforce development in Pennsylvania for the growing semiconductor industry.
8/8/2024
Two Penn State College of Engineering faculty members — Jacqueline O'Connor, professor of mechanical engineering, and Parisa Shokouhi, professor of engineering science and mechanics — were selected as part of the 2024-25 cohort of Drexel University’s Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science program.
8/7/2024
Long He, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and colleagues in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and the College of Engineering recently received a 2024 Superior Paper Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers for their research project titled, “An Advanced Robotic System for Precision Chemical Thinning of Apple Blossoms.”
8/6/2024
A team of Penn State researchers led by Wang was recently awarded a four-year, $2.02 million National Institutes of Health grant to explore how to safely add growth factors to collagen used by doctors for tissue repair.
8/5/2024
A discovery that uncovered the surprising way atoms arrange themselves and find their preferred neighbors in multi-principal element alloys could enable engineers to “tune” these unique and useful materials for enhanced performance in specific applications ranging from advanced power plants to aerospace technologies, according to the researchers who made the finding.
8/5/2024
The Penn State research-based startup DementiAnalytics aims to revolutionize early detection and management of cognitive impairments through its AI-powered platform.
8/2/2024
The latest episode of "Growing Impact" discusses the future of wind energy, including floating offshore wind turbines and a shift in turbine blade design. Wind energy is the highest-producing renewable energy source in the U.S.
8/2/2024
At the Larson Transportation Institute Test Track, ride along with President Bendapudi and the faculty and students who are helping develop tech for self-driving cars.
7/29/2024
Doug Werner, the John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received the Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Antennas and Propagation Society.
7/29/2024
A team of researchers in the Penn State College of Engineering was awarded a five-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to study how undergraduate engineering students learn and develop into energy-literate engineers as they engage with long-term research experiences centered on decarbonization.
7/25/2024
Motta, a professor of nuclear engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, received the American Nuclear Society’s Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education in June for his outstanding contributions to science and engineering education. But what made the award especially meaningful was its connection to his grandfather, Arthur Moses, who was a contemporary of Compton.
7/22/2024
Penn State is among the institutions partnering with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to launch a project to develop an innovative suite of tools that will employ machine learning algorithms for more effective cybersecurity analysis of the U.S. power grid.
7/19/2024
The Penn State College of Engineering has collaborated with Siemens Digital Industries Software to create a four-course microcredential series that will help better prepare engineering students for the workforce.
7/18/2024
Xianbiao "XB" Hu, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State with a Larson Transportation Institute (LTI) affiliation, shared his transportation engineering expertise with President Neeli Bendapudi and others at a visit to LTI’s test track on June 29. Penn State News spoke with Hu about his research and some of his recent and ongoing projects that address emerging transportation issues affecting drivers in Pennsylvania.
7/18/2024
As the number of major utility-scale ground solar panel installations grows, concerns about their impacts on natural hydrologic processes also have grown. However, a new study by Penn State researchers suggests that excess runoff or increased erosion can be easily mitigated — if these “solar farms” are properly built.
7/16/2024
Dibya Mishra has been named the summer 2024 student marshal for the Penn State College of Engineering. Mishra will receive her bachelor of science degree in computer science with a business certificate from the Smeal College of Business at the University’s commencement ceremony.
7/15/2024
Volunteer leaders are the heartbeat of the Penn State Alumni Association. In living out the Alumni Association’s mission, affiliate groups and inspiring volunteers give back to their communities, support current and future Penn State students, and unite Nittany Lions across the country and around the world. The seven individuals and 11 groups that comprise this year’s class of Volunteer Award recipients represent the best of Penn State’s alumni volunteers.
7/15/2024
As Penn State prepares for the public launch of a new fundraising campaign, a top volunteer for the effort has stepped forward with a seven-figure commitment. Greg Lucier, a 1986 industrial engineering graduate, will direct $5 million of his estate to the College of Engineering as an unrestricted commitment that can be used for his alma mater’s most urgent needs and opportunities.
7/11/2024
The Institute of Energy and the Environment has announced an update to its research themes. The change is to better align three of the research themes with the energy and environmental research being done at Penn State, and with efforts to recognize the importance of community and justice.
7/9/2024
The Penn State Center for Immersive Experiences (CIE) aims to create a “convergence accelerator for research” across the commonwealth at Penn State, according to Jessica Menold, CIE director, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences co-hire and associate professor of mechanical engineering and of industrial and manufacturing engineering.
7/8/2024
Julia Ho, a second-year doctoral student in architectural engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected to receive the Innovation in Buildings (IBUILD) Graduate Research Fellowship. She is the first Penn State student to be selected since the program began in 2021.
7/8/2024
George Lesieutre, professor of aerospace engineering and former department head and associate dean in the Penn State College of Engineering, announced his retirement on June 30.
7/8/2024
A team of Penn State chemical engineering researchers has reconfigured the design of solid-state lithium batteries so that all their components can be easily recycled.
7/8/2024
Wangda Zuo, professor of architectural engineering and of mechanical engineering, received the Exceptional Service Award from ASHRAE, formerly the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, in June at the society’s annual conference in Indianapolis.
7/4/2024
Treating cancer can sometimes feel like a game of Whac-A-Mole. The disease can become resistant to treatment, and clinicians never know when, where and what resistance might emerge, leaving them one step behind. But a team led by Penn State researchers has found a way to reprogram disease evolution and design tumors that are easier to treat.
7/3/2024
A team of Penn State researchers won the Best Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery Great Lakes Symposium on Very Large-Scale Integration (ACM GLSVLSI) 2024, held June 12-14 in Clearwater, Florida.
7/2/2024
The latest episode of the "Growing Impact" podcast discusses lighting system design and evaluation. In the early 20th century, scientists developed a standard, repeatable approach to measure light.
7/2/2024
The Social Science Research Institute’s Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction hosted its fifth annual conference in the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub at the University Park campus in April.
7/2/2024
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering, received the Standards Achievement award from ASHRAE, formerly the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, on June 22 at the society’s annual conference in Indianapolis, Indiana.
7/1/2024
A Penn State research team was one of eight chosen to receive funding from NASA as part of the agency’s University SmallSat Technology Partnerships (USTP) initiative within NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology (SST) program.
6/27/2024
Engineering science and mechanics researchers developed the ability to control the dissolve rate of biodegradable electronics by experimenting with dissolvable elements, like inorganic fillers and polymers, that encapsulate the device.
6/27/2024
Six College of Engineering baccalaureate graduates have been selected for the U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP). Four engineering graduates were also named honorable mentions for the NSF-GRFP.
6/26/2024
A paper by a team of researchers led by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, was selected to appear on the inside cover of the May 29 issue of the journal Small.
6/26/2024
To advance soft robotics, skin-integrated electronics and biomedical devices, researchers at Penn State have developed a 3D-printed novel material for use in sensors that is soft and stretchable — important traits for matching the properties of tissues and organs —and that self-assembles. Their approach employs a process that eliminates many of the drawbacks of previous fabrication methods, such as less conductivity or device failure.
6/24/2024
A paper from a team of Penn State College of Engineering and Los Alamos National Lab researchers was featured on the cover of the July issue of Experimental Mechanics.
6/21/2024
The Penn State Postdoc Society (PSPS), in collaboration with Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, has announced the 2024 recipients of the Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar and Outstanding Postdoctoral Mentor awards. The award recognition luncheon, honoring the awardees, nominators and judges, was held on June 17.
6/21/2024
Earlier this year, Penn State's Women in Engineering Program was honored with the Women in Engineering Program Award by the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, in which it was recognized as “an outstanding women in engineering program that serves as a model for other institutions.”
6/20/2024
Swaroop Ghosh, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and engineering, was awarded the 2023-24 Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Award by the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS).
6/17/2024
Zaid Pervez, a doctoral student in electrical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned second place in the student paper competition at the International Union of Radio Science’s Atlantic Radio Science Meeting.
6/17/2024
The Richard King Mellon Foundation recently awarded $392,000 to two researchers at Penn State to build a strong science- and technology-focused (STF) workforce in the state’s Mon Valley region through collaboration and virtual, augmented and mixed reality trainings and tools.
6/14/2024
Wangda Zuo, professor of architectural engineering and of mechanical engineering, received the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA)-USA Outstanding Researcher Award. Zuo was recognized at the SimBuild 2024 conference in May in Denver, where he also received the best poster award for one of his papers.
6/14/2024
Engineering students trade in equations for easels in "If Picasso Were An Engineer," an engineering design course that helps students step outside their comfort zone and hone their skills for conceptualization, presentation and reflection.
6/13/2024
Scarlett Miller, professor of industrial engineering and of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering at Penn State, was recently appointed director of Penn State’s Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation.
6/12/2024
Researchers in Penn State's College of Engineering and Ontario Tech University’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science have signed a memorandum of understanding that taps into the engineering and applied sciences strengths of both institutions.
6/10/2024
Russell Barton, Penn State professor of industrial engineering in the College of Engineering and distinguished professor of supply chain and information systems in the Smeal College of Business, authored a recently published textbook.
6/10/2024
Nuclear engineering graduate students Scout Bucks and Alex Nellis were awarded graduate fellowships from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program. The fellowships include a $169,000 stipend issued over three years and a summer internship at a DOE lab.
6/7/2024
A capstone course taught in the spring of 2024 focused specifically on adaptive technology, which is a device or piece of technology designed to provide physical or cognitive assistance.
6/7/2024
A pair of researchers from Penn State’s Department of Civil and Environment Engineering analyzed the composition of mussels downstream of a wastewater treatment facility in Western Pennsylvania that had accepted and treated fracking wastewater, and found that the tissue and shells of mussels contained radium.
6/7/2024
If a material absorbs light, it will heat up. That heat must go somewhere, and the ability to control where and how much heat is emitted can protect or even hide such devices as satellites. An international team of researchers, including those from Penn State, has developed a novel method for controlling this thermal emission, with what they called promising implications for thermal management and thermal camouflage technologies.
6/6/2024
Six interdisciplinary research teams with investigators from the College of Engineering have been awarded funding through the?Institute of Energy and the Environment’s Seed Grant Program for 2024.
6/6/2024
Penn State's bioprinting research is pushing the boundaries of medical technology toward solutions for skin replacement — including hair follicles, which were previously unexpected from this technology, bone and even internal organs.
6/5/2024
John Case, a doctoral student in acoustics in the Penn State College of Engineering, was awarded a $5,000 scholarship from the Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium.
5/31/2024
Penn State and the National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU) in Taiwan announced that they will partner on the development of educational and research programs focused on semiconductor technology and photonics.
5/30/2024
The Big Ten Academic Alliance's (BTAA) Department Executive Officers (DEO) program has gained five additional fellows from the Penn State ranks, including David Mayzck, head of the School of Engineering Design and Innovation in the College of Engineering.
5/30/2024
Skin can send certain health-related signals, such as dry skin feeling tighter to indicate the need for moisture. But what if skin could be smarter, capable of monitoring and sharing specific health information, such as the concentration of glucose in sweat or heart rate? That was the question driving a team led by Penn State researchers that recently developed an adhesive sensing device that seamlessly attaches to human skin to detect and monitor the wearer’s health.
5/29/2024
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering, was invited to serve as a member of the Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section of the Bioengineering Sciences & Technologies Integrated Review Group, which is part of the Center of Scientific Review for the National Institutes of Health.
5/28/2024
The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) and the Department of Defense will invest $4.4 million in several metals-based manufacturing programs at Penn State’s Behrend and University Park campuses, where researchers are creating workforce development programs that will strengthen the U.S. metal casting and forging industries.
5/28/2024
Penn State engineers Madhavan Swaminathan and Daniel Lopez explain in a Q&A the importance of advanced chip packaging to the U.S. semiconductor industry and how Penn State-led initiatives help turn innovations in the lab into reliable domestic production.
5/21/2024
Four projects were recently awarded Penn State Commercialization GAP funding. The GAP Fund, formerly known as the Fund for Innovation, aims to accelerate the development of promising research across the University by closing the funding gaps between proof-of-concept research and readiness for commercialization.
5/20/2024
Emerging technologies using computer science, engineering and data are on the mind of Penn State Institute of Computational Data Sciences (ICDS) Associate Director Mahmut Kandemir, who is also a distinguished professor of computer science.
5/20/2024
In light of recent news regarding congressional action on aviation safety, Penn State News spoke with Amy Pritchett, department head of aerospace engineering and professor in Penn State’s College of Engineering.
5/20/2024
Using metamaterials, a team of electrical engineering researchers from Penn State and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln created an ultrathin optical element that can control the direction of polarized electromagnetic light waves. This new control allows researchers to not only direct the light’s chirality, but also to identify the chirality of molecules by determining how polarized light interacts with them.
5/14/2024
The Erickson Discovery Grant, which funds independent research projects for undergraduate students, has been awarded to five engineering majors, who were among 43 recipients this year.
5/9/2024
For alumnus David Mazyck, returning to Penn State as the department head of the School of Engineering Design and Innovation (SEDI) within the College of Engineering was an appealing proposition. He’d been working for the University of Florida for 22 years, and while he enjoyed his time there, Penn State offered something he was interested in: familiar faces and a chance to give back to the community he’d learned from.
5/9/2024
Jacqueline O’Connor, professor of mechanical engineering, has been named an associate director of the Penn State Climate Consortium alongside Janet Swim, professor of psychology.
5/8/2024
David Mazyck, professor and head of Penn State’s School of Engineering Design and Innovation (SEDI), and Daniel Whisler, associate professor of engineering design, were awarded a three-year, $1.33 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to explore ways to decarbonize the steel and iron manufacturing industry.
5/7/2024
Li Li, the Barry and Shirley Isett Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, is the inaugural recipient of the Institute of Energy and the Environment’s Person of the Year Award. The award celebrates an exceptional researcher whose accomplishments in energy or environmental research have yielded notable successes over the past year.
5/7/2024
Cellulose, which helps give plant cell walls their rigid structure, holds promise as a renewable raw material for biofuels — if researchers can accelerate the production process. New research led by Penn State investigators has revealed how several molecular roadblocks slow this process.
5/3/2024
In three recent papers, Penn State researchers outline new uses for cold sintering— the process of combining powder-based materials into dense forms at low temperatures through applied pressure using solvents — that allows materials to be recycled again and again.
5/3/2024
In 2020, the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation committed $15.5 million to create the A. James Clark Scholars Program in the College of Engineering to support high-achieving engineering students with significant financial need. This spring, the first cohort of A. James Clark Scholars will graduate from the Penn State College of Engineering.
5/3/2024
Debarati Das, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $647,681 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for a project titled, “A Theoretical Exploration of Efficient and Accurate Clustering Algorithms."
5/3/2024
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, the A. Robert Noll Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the College of Engineering’s associate dean for innovation, has been named an Evan Pugh University Professor, one of five this year.
5/3/2024
Researchers at Penn State have made borophene, the atomically thin version of boron first synthesized in 2015, potentially more useful by imparting chirality — or handedness — on it, which could make for advanced sensors and implantable medical devices. The team, led by Dipanjan Pan, Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine and professor of materials science and engineering and of nuclear engineering, published their work — the first of its kind, they said — in ACS Nano.
5/2/2024
The latest episode of Growing Impact discusses how thawing Arctic permafrost is affecting rivers and communities in the region. With temperatures rising globally due to climate change, landscapes in the Arctic are evolving. A Penn State research team is investigating how thawing permafrost will change Arctic rivers and the consequences for erosion, sediment transport, and ultimately, communities.
5/2/2024
Tak Sing Wong, professor of mechanical engineering and of biomedical engineering, was elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
5/1/2024
The Penn State Robot in Three Days club participated in the national FIRST Robotics competition, where students are tasked with designing, prototyping and building a robot in just 72 hours.
5/1/2024
Identical twins Kaylie and Kylie Barber are the first-ever duo selected to serve as dual student marshals for the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
4/30/2024
A project co-led by two Penn State professors has been selected to receive up to $815,959 from the Grid Deployment Office of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The team will evaluate prospective market design changes to efficiently integrate batteries and other unconventional resources into wholesale electricity markets, with the aim of improving electrical grid reliability.
4/25/2024
Bin Li, associate professor of electrical engineering, was part of a team of three researchers that received the Best Demo Honorable Mention Award at IEEE VR 2024.
4/25/2024
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2024 commencement ceremony.
4/25/2024
Patrick Drew, professor of engineering science and mechanics and an associate director of the Huck Institutes, was inducted into the 2024 class of fellows for the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
4/23/2024
Six members of the College of Engineering are among the winners of the 16th annual Materials Visualization Competition (MVC), a scientific visual and artistic competition sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE) and the Materials Research Institute (MRI) at Penn State.
4/22/2024
Ronald and Martha Tirpak have stepped forward with a $1 million commitment to expand affordability through scholarships and to ensure the College of Engineering has access to modern, state-of-the-art facilities. The gift builds upon their past support of the College of Engineering and includes an estate commitment that is projected to make a transformational impact on future Penn State STEM students.
4/19/2024
Abhronil Sengupta, the Joseph R. and Janice M. Monkowski Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State, was granted a three-year, $360,000 Early Career Program Award from the Army Research Office.
4/19/2024
Julio Urbina, professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected as a Fulbright Scholar for the 2024-25 academic year. He will spend a semester conducting research and teaching in Lima, Peru.
4/18/2024
Starting this spring, the Penn State College of Engineering will offer certified microcredentials that will provide working engineers with opportunities to gain specialized skills and career development through a portfolio of flexible learning options. The college will host a virtual program information session at 8:00 p.m. on April 23.
4/18/2024
Students in the engineering science undergraduate major now have the opportunity to select from eight discipline options when completing their bachelor’s degree in engineering science, from neural engineering or acoustics to experimental mechanics and materials.
4/18/2024
Penn State’s Climate Consortium awarded funding to hold workshops to three researchers from the Penn State College of Engineering, including Zoubeida Ounaies, professor of mechanical engineering, director of the Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems and associate director of the Materials Research Institute; Christine Kirchhoff, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and of law, policy and engineering; and James Mutunga, assistant research professor in the School of Engineering Design and Innovation.
4/18/2024
Two computer science majors were part of a team that took first place in the 2024 Ag Springboard student business pitch contest, which took place in early April in State College. The team took home $7,500 to further their project.
4/18/2024
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, associate dean for innovation in the College of Engineering and A. Robert Noll Chair Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and Douglas Werner, John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor, are among the six Penn State faculty members elected to the 2023 cohort of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
4/17/2024
More than 5 million central lines are placed in patients who need prolonged drug delivery, such as those undergoing cancer treatments, in the United States every year, yet the common procedure can lead to a bevy of complications in almost a million of those cases. To help decrease the rate of infections, blood clots and other complications associated with placing a central line catheter, Penn State researchers developed an online curriculum coupled with a hands-on simulation training to provide trainee physicians with more practice.
4/17/2024
Penn State and Morgan Advanced Materials have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to catalyze research and development of silicon carbide, known as SiC, a semiconductor material that operates more efficiently at high voltages than competing technologies.
4/17/2024
A team of researchers tested the use of wearable sensors paired with a “tiny” machine learning algorithm to automatically monitor and evaluate general movements in infants.
4/17/2024
Soundar Kumara, the Allen E. Pearce and Allen M. Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering, won a Pearson Excellence in Higher Education Award in the digital pioneer category. The digital pioneer category honors an educator who uses “Pearson digital platform(s) to engage students and provide a personalized learning experience,” according to an award announcement.
4/17/2024
Research led by Tak Sing Wong, professor of mechanical engineering and of biomedical engineering, was featured as the cover art for the April 2 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
4/16/2024
Six Penn State startups, all of which were founded or co-founded by students in the College of Engineering, have been selected to participate in the 2024 Invent Penn State Summer Founders program.
4/16/2024
Penn State and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are collaborating to enhance academic and research ties through a series of workshops and a new seed grant program for the 2024-25 academic year.
4/15/2024
Penn State's Rock Ethics Institute has announced the winners of the 2024 Stand Up Awards for Undergraduate Ethical Leadership: Triniti Freeman, a third-year student majoring in nursing; Vancie Peacock, a fourth-year student majoring in biological engineering; and Jenna Seigworth, a fourth-year student majoring in English.
4/15/2024
For the 2024-25 academic year, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has appointed William and Wendy Korb Early Career Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Scott Medina to be a Huck Leadership Fellow.
4/12/2024
Xiaofeng Liu, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was named a fellow of the Environmental & Water Resources Institute.
4/5/2024
The Penn State College of Engineering’s Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase for senior engineering students to present their capstone design projects and first-year engineering students to present their cornerstone design projects with both in-person and virtual formats.
4/5/2024
Penn State co-hosted a two-day virtual summit for the India-U.S. Defense Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X) that focused on emerging space technologies and in-space assembly and manufacturing.
4/4/2024
Daning Huang, assistant professor of aerospace engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $626,006 U.S. National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his project that addresses morphing autonomous aerial systems.
4/4/2024
Eight College of Engineering graduate students were among the forty Penn State graduate students named recipients of Penn State’s most prestigious annual graduate student recognition awards.
4/4/2024
A team of Penn State undergraduate students were semi-finalists in Lockheed Martin’s seventh annual Ethics in Engineering Competition that took place Feb. 26-28 at Lockheed Martin’s headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.
4/3/2024
Two Penn State leaders, Tracy Langkilde and Karen Thole, were profiled by GameDay Couture as part of the “Gamechanger” series, which aims to showcase the accomplishments of women.
4/1/2024
When it comes to mating, two things matter for Heliconius butterflies: the look and the smell of their potential partner. The black and orange butterflies have incredibly small brains, yet they must process both sensory inputs at the same time — which is more than current artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can achieve without significant energy consumption. To make AI as smart as the butterflies, a team of Penn State researchers has created a multi-sensory AI platform that is both more advanced and uses less energy than other AI technologies.
3/28/2024
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering at Penn State, received the 2024 PMSE Early Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering.
3/28/2024
Jim Freihaut, professor and interim head of Penn State’s Department of Architectural Engineering, was recently awarded a three-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy that advances distributed energy systems in communities.
3/27/2024
Aditya Sapre, a doctoral candidate in chemical engineering, won first place in the final round of Penn State’s inaugural Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, held on March 23 at the Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center. He won a $1,000 cash prize and will advance to represent Penn State at the regional Three Minute Thesis competition at the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.?
3/27/2024
A team of Penn State researchers has developed a new synthetic material that could enable scientists to more easily study how microorganisms interact with the gastrointestinal (GI) system. The material might eventually provide a cheaper, more accessible way for researchers to screen drugs that impact gut infections, metabolic disorders like obesity and diabetes, and inflammatory bowel disorders.
3/26/2024
Jacqueline O’Connor, professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, is one of three Penn State faculty this year to receive the Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching and be named a 2024 Penn State Teaching Fellow.
3/26/2024
Penn State News spoke to Professor Pak Kin Wong about his recently published paper that discusses the methods available for incorporating microbiota analysis into clinical decision-making, the challenges of doing so and the need for new technologies to capitalize on the potential of microbiota’s role in medicine.
3/26/2024
Siu Ling "Pansy" Leung, associate teaching professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, is one of six Penn State faculty to receive the 2024 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.
3/26/2024
Two engineering faculty members were among the six recipients of the 2024 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement. Enrique Gomez, professor of chemical engineering in the College of Engineering and by courtesy materials science and engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and Tak-Sing Wong, professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering in the College of Engineering, were both recognized with the award.
3/26/2024
Michelle Vigeant-Haas, associate professor of acoustics and architectural engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, is the recipient of the 2024 Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award.
3/26/2024
Kenan Ünlü, professor of nuclear engineering in the College of Engineering, and the director of the Radiation Science and Engineering Center (RSEC), which includes the Breazeale nuclear research reactor, has been awarded the 2024 President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration.
3/22/2024
Christian Peco, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $549,445 U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award for a project that will examine biological organisms like slime molds and fungi for inspiration in designing decentralized intelligent collaboration algorithms.
3/21/2024
Blood vessels engineered from stem cells could help solve several research and clinical problems, from potentially providing a more comprehensive platform to screen if drug candidates can cross from the blood stream into the brain to developing lab-grown vascular tissue to support heart transplants, according to Penn State researchers. Led by Xiaojun “Lance” Lian, associate professor of biomedical engineering and of biology, the team discovered the specific molecular signals that can efficiently mature nascent stem cells into the endothelial cells that comprise the vessels and regulate exchanges to and from the blood stream.
3/20/2024
Andrea Argüelles, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $696,010 U.S. National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award for a project titled, “Advancing ceramic processing science through acoustic characterization.”
3/20/2024
After finishing his advanced degree in acoustics, Andrew Barnard returned to his alma mater in Michigan and never thought he’d come back to Penn State, much less lead the program he graduated from. But when he heard about an opening in Penn State’s Graduate Program in Acoustics, he knew it was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up.
3/18/2024
Amrita Basak, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $598,650 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for a project titled “Understanding Processing-Structure-Property Relationships in Co-Axial Wire-Feed, Powder-Feed Laser Directed Energy Deposition.”
3/18/2024
Andrea Gregg, the director of learning experience design and an associate research professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State, co-authored a book titled High-Impact Design for Online Courses: Blueprinting Quality Digital Learning in Eight Practical Steps (HIDOC).
3/18/2024
Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and the instructions for next-generation technology, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. In a first, the team precisely replicated the complex geometry of these particles, called brochosomes, and elucidated a better understanding of how they absorb both visible and ultraviolet light.
3/18/2024
Twelve Penn State engineering graduates have been selected to receive the Penn State College of Engineering’s Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award.
3/15/2024
As traditional energy methods increase in cost and take their toll on the environment, Penn State researchers are turning to two underutilized renewable resources, the sun and outer space, for solutions to generate electricity and passively cool down structures. A mechanical engineering reserach team developed and tested a dual cooling and power strategy that simultaneously harvests solar energy in a solar cell and directs heat away from Earth through radiative cooling.
3/14/2024
The Penn State Radiation Science and Engineering Center (RSEC) recently received a small angle neutron scattering (SANS) device, a $9.8 million equipment donation from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Germany. The arrival of the SANS equipment makes Penn State the first and only U.S. university research reactor to have SANS capability, according to RSEC researchers.
3/14/2024
In a recent installment of “A Note from Neeli,” Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi visited the Center for Pedagogy in Arts and Design where she received a hands-on demonstration of “Together, Tacit,” an interdisciplinary research and creative collaboration between the College of Arts and Architecture and the College of Engineering. In the project, artists and engineers are building a haptic glove powered by virtual reality, allowing visually impaired and sighted individuals to work together to create a sculpture.
3/13/2024
Abhronil Sengupta, the Joseph R. and Janice M. Monkowski Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $500,000 U.S. NSF CAREER Award.
3/13/2024
A team of researchers led by Vishal Monga, Penn State professor of electrical engineering, received a four year, $1.6 million grant from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program for their work on imaging and classifying underwater military munitions.
3/13/2024
Vanessa Dib, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student, won the 2024 John W. Oswald Award for scholarship.
3/12/2024
It turns out that every action may not have an equal and opposite reaction, despite what Newton’s third law of motion says, according to new research conducted by a team from Penn State and the University of Maine. The finding could offer insight into how certain molecular interactions could have evolved in a pre-life world.
3/11/2024
Five Penn State College of Engineering graduate students have been selected for the final round of the inaugural Penn State Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
3/11/2024
A newly developed “GPS nanoparticle” injected intravenously can home in on cancer cells to deliver a genetic punch to the protein implicated in tumor growth and spread, according to researchers from Penn State. They tested their approach in human cell lines and in mice to effectively knock down a cancer-causing gene, reporting that the technique may potentially offer a more precise and effective treatment for notoriously hard-to-treat basal-like breast cancers.
3/11/2024
Miaomiao Jin, assistant professor of nuclear engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $550,000 U.S. NSF CAREER Award for a project that advances nuclear reactors through that rely on molten salt applications.
3/11/2024
A team of researchers led by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM) at Penn State, created a highly-sensitive and cost-effective sensor to better monitor the concentration of dopamine and tyrosine — a neurotransmitter and an amino acid, respectively, that are present in the brain — in sweat or urine.
3/11/2024
Yunting Liu, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $550,000 U.S. NSF CAREER Award for a project that aims to revolutionize the field of power electronics by introducing irregular modulation theory to power converters.
3/6/2024
Hydrogen gas, while a potentially greener alternative to fossil fuels, is currently expensive to produce. Penn State doctoral candidate in chemical engineering Arash Emdadi and his lab mates are working to improve the hydrogen production method to make it more cost-effective and environmentally friendly.
3/5/2024
For soft tissue to recover and regrow, it needs blood vessels to grow to deliver oxygen and nutrients. Sluggish vascularization, however, can slow or even prevent recovery and regrowth of lost or damaged soft tissue after a severe injury or serious illness such as cancer. To speed up the formation and patterning of new blood vessels, Penn State researchers have combined a novel biomaterial with a microsurgical approach used in reconstructive surgery, enabling improved recovery of soft tissue.
3/5/2024
Edward Smith, professor of aerospace engineering in the College of Engineering, has been named a distinguished professor by Penn State's Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs.
3/4/2024
Soundar Kumara, the Allen E. Pearce and Allen M. Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering, was named one of 14 recipients of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras’s (IIT Madras) 2024 Distinguished Alumnus Award.
3/4/2024
The Membrane Applications, Science and Technology Center, an industry-university cooperative research center supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and co-led by Penn State, recently received five additional years of funding. The funding will allow for an expansion of the center at Penn State, which has served as one of four of the center’s partner academic institutions since 2019.
3/4/2024
The latest episode of the "Growing Impact" podcast explores PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) and their impact on drinking water. For decades, PFAS have been manufactured and used in thousands of products that people use every day. Emerging evidence has associated PFAS exposure with potential negative health outcomes. This prompted a research team to evaluate existing technologies, designed to decontaminate drinking water, to determine if they can also remove PFAS.
3/1/2024
Fat tissue holds the key to 3D printing layered living skin and potentially hair follicles, according to researchers who recently harnessed fat cells and supporting structures from clinically procured human tissue to precisely correct injuries in rats. The advancement could have implications for reconstructive facial surgery and even hair growth treatments for humans.
2/29/2024
A team of three Penn State undergraduate students placed fourth in the East Central North American Regional of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), qualifying them to advance to the North American Championship.
2/27/2024
Zoubeida Ounaies, professor of mechanical engineering, Julio Urbina, professor of electrical engineering, and Vanessa Dib, an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering, were recently recognized in Penn State Global’s 2023-24 annual awards.
2/26/2024
Alaska needs an estimated 27,500 new housing units over the next 10 years to alleviate overcrowding and unsanitary conditions, according to the Alaska Housing Foundation Corporation. A Penn State interdisciplinary team that includes researchers from the College of Engineering is looking to alleviate some of that stress with a $376,000 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant.
2/21/2024
A new class of metallic materials with potential applications in airplanes, nuclear reactors and equipment for space exploration can withstand extreme temperatures and resist fractures, but scientists haven’t understood why until now. According to a new study co-led by Penn State researchers, the answer could relate to the material’s short-range order, or the local arrangement of atoms within a material.
2/20/2024
Implantable biomedical devices — like pacemakers, insulin pumps and neurostimulators — are becoming smaller and utilizing wireless technology, but hurdles remain for powering the next-generation implants. A new wireless charging device developed by Penn State scientists could dramatically improve powering capability for implants while still being safe for our bodies, the researchers said.
2/20/2024
Jessica Menold, Penn State associate professor of engineering design and of mechanical engineering, was named a member of the 2024-26 New Voices cohort of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
2/19/2024
The inside of underwater pipes and enclosed nuclear containers were inaccessible — until recently. Acoustics researchers in Penn State’s College of Engineering have developed a way to convey energy and transmit communications through metal walls using ultrasound.
2/19/2024
The Pennsylvania Housing Research Center, housed in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, will host two concurrent conferences on March 27-28 at The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center, with two full days of educational panels, talks, exhibits and events.
2/15/2024
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering, has been named a 2024 Scialog Fellow by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
2/15/2024
Christian Pester, associate professor of chemical engineering, was recognized as a 2023 Rising Star in Polymers by ACS Polymers Au, a publication of the American Chemical Society.
2/12/2024
Mimicking the easy, instantaneous image processing power of the human eye, Penn State electrical engineering researchers created a metasurface: an optical element akin to a glass slide that uses tiny nanostructures placed at different angles to control light.
2/8/2024
Soft bioelectronic devices hold potential for many advances in the health care field, but researchers have faced hurdles in identifying materials that are biocompatible while still maintaining all necessary characteristics to operate effectively. A team co-led by Penn State researchers has now taken a step toward achieving such a material.
2/7/2024
Neeli Bendapudi shares the story of “Together, Tacit,” an inspiring interdisciplinary research and creative collaboration between the College of Arts and Architecture and College of Engineering. This research project combines the strength of our interdisciplinary focus, the dedication of our amazing faculty, and the tenacity of a remarkable student.
2/7/2024
Enrique Gomez, interim associate dean for equity and inclusion and professor of chemical engineering, was selected as a 2024 fellow by The American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering.
2/7/2024
Driven by a personal commitment to a healthy lifestyle, third-year student Jimmy Alamia has led a collaboration between the Dr. Keiko Miwa Ross Student Farm and the Lion's Pantry to make healthy eating easy and affordable for the campus community. He spearheaded the launch of the Feed the People Market Stand at University Park, a pay-what-you-can farmers market offering fresh, campus-grown produce to students, faculty and staff.
2/7/2024
Luis Delgado Jr., a mechanical engineering doctoral student, is the recipient of a 2024 Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship.
2/7/2024
Lauren McPhillips, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of agricultural and biological engineering, was quoted in an article published by The New Republic. The article discussed the importance of addressing aging drain and sewer systems as climate change accelerates.
2/7/2024
Several master’s in engineering programs offered through Penn State’s World Campus earned top recognitions from the 2024 U.S. News & World Report “Best Online Programs” rankings, released today (Feb. 7).
2/5/2024
Alp Durmus, assistant professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, was selected as a member of the 2023 group of 40 Under 40.
2/2/2024
Prosthetic hands that incorporate robotics can perform dexterous self-care tasks, but they are often hard to operate, requiring a user’s constant attention with a limited number of hand functions. With a five-year, $4 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant, Penn State researchers aim to make robotic prostheses more useful for people living with amputations.
2/2/2024
The latest episode of "Growing Impact" explores the connection between the expansion of solar energy and land use. To meet net-zero emissions by 2050, it is estimated that the U.S. would need to devote 0.5% of its land to achieve that goal through solar energy. That is nearly 16,000 square miles or about a third of the state of Pennsylvania.
2/2/2024
Guha Manogharan, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, was named co-director of the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D). Manogharan replaces Tim Simpson, the Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design and Manufacturing, who has served in the position since the center’s founding in 2012.
2/2/2024
Iam-Choon Khoo, the William E. Leonhard Professor of Electrical Engineering, received the 2024 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award in Photonics from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
2/2/2024
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, was awarded two recognitions by two international scientific societies, SPIE and Sigma Xi.
1/31/2024
Laura Y. Cabrera, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics and of philosophy and the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neuroethics, was featured in an AP News article.
1/30/2024
The Center for Engineering Outreach and Inclusion at Penn State is offering a series of workshops — Inclusive Leadership in Equity, Allyship and Diversity (ILEAD).
1/29/2024
An article in the journal Science discusses a recently published study led by Penn State researchers that investigated the optomotor response in flies. The article focuses on the work of Jean-Michel Mongeau, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and of biomedical engineering, and mechanical engineering doctoral student Benjamin Cellini.
1/29/2024
A team of undergraduate students in Penn State’s Student Space Programs Laboratory won the 2023 Innovation Award at NASA’s annual Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge.
1/29/2024
The Penn State Summer Translational Cardiovascular Science Institute (STCSI) program is accepting applications from now until March 1. The program is open to any undergraduate student with a demonstrated interest in cardiovascular science.
1/26/2024
John Case, graduate student in acoustics in the Penn State College of Engineering, received a best paper award at the Acoustics 2023 Conference, hosted by the Acoustical Society of America and the Australian Acoustical Society.
1/25/2024
The Penn State College of Engineering fundraised $38,686 from 334 gifts on GivingTuesday, which took place on Nov. 28, 2023.
1/24/2024
Amrita Basak, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was selected as the 2024 Dilip R. Ballal Early Career Engineering Award winner by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ International Gas Turbine Institute.
1/24/2024
Vikash Gayah, interim director of the Penn State Larson Transportation Institute and professor of civil engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was featured in the NPR podcast Planet Money.
1/24/2024
The National Academy of Inventors named Qiming Zhang, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering in Penn State’s College of Engineering, a fellow — the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
1/18/2024
A mechanical engineering alumnus honored his late brothers and their Coal Region roots through an $800,000 gift to establish a scholarship in the College of Engineering. The Robert, John, and Edward Mitchell Family Endowed Scholarship Fund in the College of Engineering will help engineering students who hail from Pennsylvania’s Coal Region – or Schuylkill, Carbon, Columbia and Northumberland Counties – in their pursuit to become engineers.
1/17/2024
Esther Obonyo, associate professor of engineering design and architectural engineering, and director of the Global Building Network, will give the talk, “Building SURE (Sustainable and Resilient) Communities,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 22.
1/15/2024
Patrick Drew, professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, has been named associate director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
1/12/2024
To improve the success rate of drug repurposing and determine effective treatment doses, the Penn State researchers developed a model that predicts effective doses for repurposed drugs.
1/11/2024
Penn State alumnus Qifeng Liu has been named a Schwarzman Scholar, which provides one year of study at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
1/10/2024
Moore's Law, a fundamental scaling principle for electronic devices, forecasts that the number of transistors on a chip will double every two years, ensuring more computing power — but a limit exists. Today's most advanced chips house nearly 50 billion transistors within a space no larger than your thumbnail. The task of cramming even more transistors into that confined area has become more and more difficult, according to Penn State researchers.
1/10/2024
The winners from Penn State Learning Factory’s in-person and virtual end-of-semester Capstone Project Showcase have been named. The culmination of 15 weeks of work, the showcase is an opportunity for senior engineering students to present their capstone design projects, and for some of them, receive awards and prizes.
1/8/2024
The legacy of Eugene "Gene" Bard, a 1968 alumnus of Penn State architectural engineering, will live on through a new scholarship, established in his memory by BR+A Consulting Engineers.
1/8/2024
Gregory T. Lucier, a Penn State College of Engineering alumnus, is one of eight Penn State alumni selected by the University's Board of Trustees to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, the institution's highest honor presented to its alumni.
1/8/2024
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, won the Editor’s Choice Award at the 13th annual Climate Control Awards. Bahnfleth was honored for his stewardship in the drafting of the recently released ASHRAE Standard 241.
1/4/2024
Qiushi Chen, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, leads a four-year, interdisciplinary project to develop an early warning system for identifying and responding to emerging substance use threats.
1/4/2024
A team of Penn State researchers has developed a sensor that accurately detects biomarker concentrations in sweat samples.
1/2/2024
Pak Kin Wong, professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering, was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in class VI – Technical and Environmental Sciences.
12/21/2023
Jack Langelaan, professor and director of graduate programs in the Penn State College of Engineering Department of Aerospace Engineering, was quoted in an article on CNN’s website that discussed a cargo plane that completed a 50-mile flight with no one on board.
12/20/2023
Richard Kubina, professor of special education, is part of a team that is leading a project to provide career opportunities for science, technology, engineering and math students on the autism spectrum. Somayeh Asadi, associate professor of architectural engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering is also involved in the project.
12/18/2023
Arthur Motta, professor of nuclear engineering and of materials science and engineering, was named the 2023 Honorary Member of the Société Française de Métallurgie et de Matériaux, a French non-profit scientific association for metallurgy and materials.
12/18/2023
Engineering researchers created a machine learning platform that can more efficiently analyze and predict datapoints collected by wearables. They applied the platform to a new stretchy, wearable throat sensor that records vibrations and electrical muscle impulses from the neck area to monitor a user’s speech and swallowing patterns.
12/15/2023
Maria Rozman, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering at Penn State, presented to the National Academies’ Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board Meeting held October 17-18. Rozman briefed the audience on her turbine efficiency research.
12/14/2023
Penn State has been selected by the Department of Defense (DoD) as a partner for two of the four newly created DoD research centers of excellence. The Penn State principal investigators discuss Penn State's role in the centers and the research they plan to conduct.
12/13/2023
Sonika Kohli, a biomedical engineering undergraduate student and Schreyer Honors Scholar at Penn State, received an Outstanding Presentation Award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists.
12/8/2023
Self-propelled nanoparticles could potentially advance drug delivery and lab-on-a-chip systems — but they are prone to go rogue with random, directionless movements. Now, researchers have developed an approach to rein in the synthetic particles.
12/7/2023
Yifan Lu has been named the fall 2023 student marshal for the Penn State College of Engineering. Commencement will be held at 9 a.m. on Dec. 16 in the Bryce Jordan Center at University Park.
12/7/2023
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, spoke with Penn State News on Penn State’s efforts to build relationships between India and the U.S. in higher education.
12/6/2023
One faculty member and two graduate students from the Penn State College of Engineering are among the six materials researchers that received the 2023 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award.
12/6/2023
A new study led by Penn State researchers reveals exactly how growing biofilms shape their environments and fine-tune their internal architecture to fit their surroundings. The findings may have implications for a wide variety of applications, from fighting disease to engineering new types of living active materials.
12/5/2023
Sniffles, snorts and blows of runny noses are the hallmarks of cold and flu season — and that increase in mucus is exactly what bacteria use to mount a coordinated attack on the immune system, according to a new study from researchers at Penn State. The team found that the thicker the mucus, the better the bacteria are able to swarm.
12/1/2023
The latest episode of "Growing Impact" features a team of researchers that is exploring how to mitigate aviation’s climate impacts, specifically the warming effect created by contrails. Sven Schmitz, the Boeing/A. D. Welliver Professor of Aerospace Engineering, is featured.
12/1/2023
Tonya L. Peeples has been named the permanent Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, effective Jan. 1, 2024.
12/1/2023
Syed Rafiul Hussain, the Charles K. Etner Early Career Assistant Professor in Penn State’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will lead a team of graduate students in researching how to detect and avert threats to 5G communications.
11/29/2023
The Penn State Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase for engineering students to present their capstone design projects with both in-person and virtual formats. The in-person showcase will take place from1:00-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at the Bryce Jordan Center. The virtual showcase will take place Tuesday, Dec. 5 through Friday, Dec. 15.
11/29/2023
The Royal Aeronautical Society named Karen Thole, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, a fellow.
11/27/2023
Adri van Duin, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering, was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the world’s largest organization dedicated to physics.
11/20/2023
The American Nuclear Society named Elia Merzari, professor of nuclear engineering at Penn State, a fellow.
11/20/2023
At its annual awards ceremony, the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) recognized engineering faculty, staff and alumni members for outstanding teaching, research, advising and service.
11/17/2023
Penn State biomedical engineering doctoral candidate Josh Reynolds, along with his research lab mates, are striving to overcome drug resistance and accelerate drug discovery efforts in the fight against cancer with their startup, Atlas Biotech.
11/16/2023
Zixuan Feng, doctoral student of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Penn State, won a presentation award at the 45th annual Society of Medical Decision Making meeting held Oct. 22-25 in Philadelphia.
11/16/2023
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, a power grid expert, answers questions on a three-year, $450,000 NSF grant that addresses oscillations in power grid operations.
11/15/2023
The Penn State College of Engineering invites alumni and friends to support engineering student success through a GivingTuesday gift on Nov. 28 as Penn State celebrates its ninth GivingTuesday.
11/15/2023
Using a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, researchers from the College of Engineering and the College of Medicine will develop a novel colonoscopy training system that integrates automated personalized learning with a manikin embedded with sensors that may help make the routine procedure safer, more accurate and cost-efficient.
11/13/2023
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Electron Devices Society honored Abhronil Sengupta, the Joseph R. and Janice M. Monkowski Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State, with its Early Career Award.
11/13/2023
A team of Penn State researchers received the Best Poster/Demo Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiHoc 2023, held Oct. 23-26 in Washington, D.C.
11/12/2023
Karen Thole, director of the Steady Thermal Aero Research Turbine (START) Lab, and doctoral student Chad Schaeffer discussed their work on gas turbines and next-generation hybrid electric propulsion at the Penn State Board of Trustees meeting on Nov. 10.
11/10/2023
The Learning Factory provides a unique opportunity for students to partner with industry sponsors with a shared goal — to educate the next generation of world-class engineers using state-of-the-art facilities for design, prototyping and fabrication.
11/10/2023
Steven White Jr., engineering support specialist with the Learning Factory; Melina Trautman, fourth-year mechanical engineering student and Becca Baker, fourth-year industrial engineering student, discuss how the Learning Factory’s safety and skills training programs set students up for success during their time on campus and throughout their future careers.
11/9/2023
Robert Rabb, associate dean for education in the College of Engineering, explains more about
“cornerstone-to-capstone education” and the important role hands-on, client-based projects play in undergraduate engineering education at Penn State.
11/9/2023
The Penn State Learning Factory hosted the annual conference of the Global Design Thinking Alliance (GDTA) on Oct. 21-22 in the new Engineering Design and Innovation Building and online.
11/9/2023
The Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team (AVT) competed in the second year of competition for AutoDrive Challenge II from June 4-10 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After a successful showing in year one of competition, Penn State AVT returned to take home eight top-three recognitions in year two.
11/8/2023
Zahra Ghorbani, a doctoral candidate in architectural engineering at Penn State, was selected to receive the Future Leaders Award from the National Institute of Building Sciences.
11/8/2023
Angie Castro, a chemical engineering doctoral student, researches 3D printing granular scaffolds for tissue engineering and regeneration to meet precise medical needs through the Bio-Soft Materials Laboratory (B-SMaL). Now, her work is supported by a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant awarded to her adviser and B-SMaL director, Amir Sheikhi.
11/7/2023
Two faculty members in the Penn State Department of Aerospace Engineering, Professor Puneet Singla and Assistant Professor Roshan Eapen, are part of a team of researchers from four universities collaborating on a $4.5 million project to better understand cislunar space — the area between Earth and the moon — critical for future space exploration.
11/6/2023
Christos Argyropoulos, associate professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, was elected a 2024 fellow of OPTICA, the professional society for optics and photonics professionals formerly known as OSA.
11/6/2023
The Penn State College of Engineering community is mourning the loss of Forrest J. Remick Jr., professor emeritus of nuclear engineering, who died Oct. 9 at the age of 92.
11/2/2023
The National Science Foundation published a version of a Penn State article featuring the work of Scott Medina, William and Wendy Korb Early Career Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Penn State. The article discusses Penn State research that investigates a novel bubble-based technique to observe immune cells at work.
11/1/2023
The Penn State-led Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES) held its first annual center review on Sept. 5-6 at University Park. The following is a Q&A about the annual meeting, the progress CHIMES has made and its goals for the upcoming year and beyond.
11/1/2023
Andrew Pannone, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, was selected as a 2023 NASA Space Technology Graduate Researcher.
10/27/2023
New research led by Penn State reveals for the first time the mechanics behind how breast cancer cells may invade healthy tissues. The discovery offers new clinical targets against metastasis and has the potential to fundamentally change how cancer is treated.
10/26/2023
The Graduate School at Penn State welcomed 20 new National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program recipients for the 2023-24 academic year. Five College of Engineering graduate students received the fellowship, and two engineering graduate students were recognized as honorable mentions.
10/26/2023
The Engineering Ambassadors Program collaborated with Penn State DuBois to host an engineering outreach event. The collaboration was the first of its kind between the Ambassadors Program and the DuBois campus.
10/25/2023
Judith Todd, professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, was elected a fellow of the Society of Engineering Science.
10/25/2023
Dipanjan Pan, Penn State Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine and a professor of nuclear engineering and of materials science and engineering and of biomedical engineering, led a team that reported the first rapid tests for gonorrhea and chlamydia, built on a platform that could be adjusted to detect a variety of infections.
10/25/2023
Take a tour of Mechanical Engineering Knowledge Lab located in Reber Building. This fly-through virtual tour provides a look at some of the hands-on, collaborative work made possible by this reimagined space.
10/24/2023
A new study co-authored by Christine Kirchhoff, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and of law, policy and engineering at Penn State, details why individuals are more likely than governments to implement actions to adapt to climate change.
10/24/2023
The Penn State Wind Energy Club was awarded second place at the U.S. Department of Energy’s 10th Annual Collegiate Wind Competition. The club also won the Project Development Contest and the Connection Creation Contest.?
10/20/2023
With the growing impact of artificial intelligence, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has announced a partnership with Penn State to leverage faculty expertise and receive advisory support on artificial intelligence (AI)-related topics such as organizational strategy, risk assessment and governance.
10/19/2023
A new electrical method to conveniently change the direction of electron flow in some quantum materials could have implications for the development of next-generation electronic devices and quantum computers.
10/19/2023
A mechanical engineering major from Penn State Harrisburg worked with Sean Knecht, an associate research professor in Penn State's School of Engineering Design and Innovation, on a summer research project on an alternate fuel solution.
10/19/2023
Six Penn State graduate students received a prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. The NDSEG fellowship program provides fellows with the opportunity to pursue a doctoral degree in science and engineering disciplines of military importance.
10/18/2023
Azar Panah, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State Berks, has coordinated an educational art exhibition inspired by fluid dynamics at the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences.
