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7/2/2025
The Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) held its annual awards ceremony on June 20 at the State Theatre, building on its 53-year tradition of honoring excellence among engineering faculty, staff and alumni through the PSEAS awards. The award recipients were recognized in the categories of teaching, research, advising and service.
7/2/2025
A research group, including several Penn State researchers, developed a computational model to streamline flood prediction in the continental United States. Their model, which they call a differentiable routing model, incorporates physical readings — like temperature and river height — into a system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to simulate and predict water movement.
7/1/2025
Sarah Chekan, a master’s student in mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected for the 2025-26 U.S. Fulbright Student Research/Study Program. She will conduct research within the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering on integrating renewable energy into existing power grids.
7/1/2025
Ezra Clark, the Thomas K. Hepler Early Career Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected to receive $600,000 over four years as a Beckman Young Investigator. He will investigate unconventional ways of performing selective partial hydrogenation and oxidation reactions, which play a critical role in producing a wide array of the commodity and fine chemicals needed to manufacture everything from plastics
to pharmaceuticals.
7/1/2025
The Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering recently hosted the Semiconductor Technologies and Photonics Workshop June 2-3 at the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub at Penn State University Park.
6/27/2025
Samantha Splendido, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering at Penn State, has been named a 2025–26 ASME Graduate Teaching Fellow, receiving a $5,000 annual stipend to support her teaching assistantship and development as an engineering educator. The fellowship recognizes her commitment to innovative instruction and aims to encourage future faculty careers in mechanical engineering.
6/27/2025
Susan Stewart, associate director of undergraduate studies and teaching professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, has been named assistant dean for academic support and global programs, effective July 1. Stewart's promotion comes after 18 years of service to Penn State. She succeeds Christine Masters in the role, who recently retired after almost 30 years of service to the College of Engineering.
6/25/2025
Seong Kim has been named department head and holder of the Walter L. Robb Family Department Head’s Chair of Chemical Engineering at Penn State, effective July 1. Kim’s promotion follows over 20 years of committed service to Penn State as a faculty member, leader and interdisciplinary researcher.
6/24/2025
At Penn State, two researchers are at the forefront of this intersection between computer science and biology. Mingfu Shao, associate professor of computer science and engineering, and David Koslicki, associate professor of computer science and engineering and of biology, recently presented three papers at RECOMB, one of the top conferences in computational biology, which took place April 26-29 in Seoul, South Korea.
6/23/2025
Farshad Rajabipour, the John and Harriette Shaw Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been named head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), effective July 1. The promotion follows his service as interim department head since July 2023 and as a Penn State CEE faculty member since 2009.
6/23/2025
Sukwon Choi, associate professor of mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member status — an honor held by only 10% of IEEE’s global membership in recognition of significant professional achievement. This distinction reflects Choi’s accomplishments and leadership in the engineering field.
6/20/2025
A research team from Penn State has broken a 165-year-old law of thermal radiation with unprecedented strength, setting the stage for more efficient energy harvesting, heat transfer and infrared sensing. Their results, currently available online, are slated to be published in Physical Review Letters on June 23.
6/16/2025
Micah Haack, a doctoral student in electrical engineering in the Penn
State College of Engineering, has been awarded the U.S. Department of
Defense Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART)
Scholarship. During the summer months and after graduation
for a minimum of two-and-a-half years, Haack will work at the Naval
Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.
6/13/2025
Several engineering-focused research projects at Penn State have received GAP Fund support to accelerate the commercialization of innovations in areas such as energy-efficient data centers, advanced manufacturing, electronic waste recycling and smart drilling materials. By bridging the gap between academic discovery and industry adoption, these projects highlight engineering’s critical role in developing scalable solutions to global technological and sustainability challenges.
6/11/2025
A group of researchers, co-led by two faculty from the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, developed a tool to streamline the analysis of existing genome assemblies. They tested their algorithm, called “CloseRead,” on 74 publicly available genome sequences and were able to identify errors in these curated assemblies with more accuracy than other existing verification tools, which are not specialized for particularly complex areas of the genome.
6/9/2025
Christine Masters, assistant dean for academic support and global programs and teaching professor of engineering science and mechanics, will retire effective June 30 after nearly 30 years as a faculty member in the College of Engineering.
6/9/2025
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program (ALP) in 2025-26 will include five new fellows from Penn State.
6/9/2025
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has named Evan Bozek, a doctoral candidate in engineering science and mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, one of 79 recipients of the 2025 DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award. Selected graduate students have the opportunity to continue their thesis research at a DOE facility for three to 12 months.
6/9/2025
Nuclear engineering graduate students Carolina da Silva Bourdot Dutra and Logan Hiland were recognized by the American Nuclear Society, with Dutra receiving a Student Section Committee Commendation for her service and Hiland earning Best Graduate Student Presentation in Thermal-Hydraulics. Their awards highlight excellence in leadership and research within the nuclear science community.
6/6/2025
Maggie Nunn, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at Penn State, was recently awarded the Amelia Earhart Fellowship. The fellowship is annually awarded to up to 30 women pursuing doctorates in the fields of aerospace engineering and space sciences, with recipients each receiving $10,000.
6/4/2025
Ten percent of adolescents and young adults aged 12 to 20, whose brains are still developing, report drinking alcohol, with 90% of their consumption being binge drinking, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will use a new five-year, $2,900,000 grant to investigate the long-term effects of excess alcohol drinking during adolescence.
6/4/2025
As biomedical challenges grow more complex, Penn State’s Dipanjan Pan is pioneering a multifaceted approach to nanomedicine that spans basic research, clinical translation and entrepreneurial deployment.
6/4/2025
Jin Wen has been named a 2024 Top Scholar by ScholarGPS, placing in the top 0.5% of scholars worldwide for lifetime contributions to research in building energy, environmental systems, and energy. This recognition highlights Wen’s global impact in sustainable engineering and high-impact scholarship.
6/2/2025
As global temperatures rise, the demand for air conditioning is surging, driving up energy bills and straining power grids. In the United States, air conditioning accounts for nearly one-fifth of all residential electricity use, and cooling systems in commercial buildings consume about one-third of their total energy. To meet this energy need, a team of researchers at Penn State is developing new materials that cool their surroundings when bent or stressed. On the latest episode of “Growing Impact,” the team discusses how this cutting-edge technology could transform the future of building climate control.
5/30/2025
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Penn State Evan Pugh University Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, has been named co-recipient of the 2025 van de Hulst Light-Scattering Award alongside Andreas Macke of the University of Leipzig, honoring their significant contributions to the science of light scattering. The award recognizes excellence in fields such as optical theory, atmospheric science, and astronomy.
5/29/2025
Bob Melton, professor of aerospace engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, will retires on July 1, leaving behind a legacy of service that includes decades of support to the University’s marshal corps.
5/28/2025
Doctoral candidate Satwik Kundu and his advisor, Prof. Swaroop Ghosh, won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE HOST Conference for their paper "STIQ: Safeguarding Training and Inferencing of Quantum Neural Networks from Untrusted Cloud," which addresses security concerns in quantum computing. The paper was selected as the top submission out of 144 full papers at the conference.
5/28/2025
Researchers from Penn State, Rice University and the University of Sussex chemically merged silica glass and graphene to produce “glaphene,” a single, atom-thick compound that the team said could potentially advance electronics, photonics and quantum systems.
5/27/2025
Fragrances and lotions don't just change the way people smell, they actively alter the indoor air chemistry around the wearer, disrupting a critical natural process the body uses to protect itself from pollution, according to an international research team that includes scientists from Penn State.
5/27/2025
Penn State's University Staff Advisory Council honored three staff members for their outstanding contributions, including Alex Zimmerman of Mechanical Engineering, whose innovative multimedia solutions have enhanced online engineering education, and Angela Dixon of Chemical Engineering, whose leadership and compassion have fostered a supportive departmental culture. These awards highlight excellence in both the technical and interpersonal dimensions of engineering staff roles.
5/21/2025
Anton Bankevich, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has received the 2025 RECOMB Test of Time award for hisinfluential 2013 paper, “Assembling Genomes and Mini-Metagenomes from Highly Chimeric Reads,” recognized for its lasting impact on computational biology. His contributions to the field also include a 2022 Nature Biotechnology publication advancing genome assembly techniques.
5/21/2025
Penn State researchers have developed a cold sintering process that enables low-temperature, energy-efficient manufacturing of solid-state battery materials, overcoming key production hurdles. The breakthrough could accelerate the development of safer, faster-charging and more sustainable batteries for electric vehicles and electronics.
5/20/2025
Putting their classroom engineering skills to a practical test, a group of undergraduates designed, built and are currently testing a single-seat, open-cockpit racecar to prepare for the annual Formula SAE Electric competition, which will take place from June 17-21 at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan.
5/19/2025
Viswanathan Ganesh, a doctoral student in architectural engineering at Penn State, received the 2025-26 ASHRAE Graduate Student Grant-In-Aid Award for his research on machine learning-based HVAC control for data centers. He has also been recognized with multiple fellowships and scholarships for academic excellence.
5/19/2025
Penn State’s Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation has awarded seed grants to five interdisciplinary research projects. These grants support collaborative projects led by Penn State faculty who aim to generate innovative solutions to complex challenges in real estate and the built environment.
5/19/2025
Penn State researchers, in collaboration with the University of Arkansas and Spark Therapeutics, developed a novel single-pass tangential flow filtration (SPTFF) system that significantly advances gene therapy manufacturing by enabling more efficient, continuous processing of AAV vectors. The work was recently featured in Chemical Engineering Progress for its potential to reduce costs and improve therapeutic quality.
5/19/2025
Wangda Zuo, professor at Penn State, has been named the 2024 Outstanding Associate Editor of the Year by ASME for his exceptional editorial contributions to the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. The award recognizes his dedication to maintaining high standards in peer-reviewed research and advancing the field of solar energy.
5/15/2025
Penn State researchers have developed a groundbreaking 3D printing method that uses multiple metals within a single structure, allowing precise control of material placement to optimize properties like strength, weight, and conductivity. This innovation in multi-material laser powder bed fusion (MM-LPBF) enables the creation of complex, high-performance parts for industries such as aerospace and biomedical engineering.
5/13/2025
Penn State’s AI Week showcased the latest research on artificial intelligence (AI) systems and tools, with a specific focus on their applications across K-12 and higher education.
5/13/2025
Amir Sheikhi, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering and associate professor of chemical engineering, has been named the 2025 recipient of the TAPPI Nanotechnology Division Mid-Career Award in recognition of his impactful research and contributions to the field of renewable nanomaterials. The award honors his scientific innovation, mentorship and leadership within the TAPPI NanoDivision.
5/12/2025
George Lesieutre, a professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, has been selected to receive the 2025 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Award for his pioneering research in adaptive flight structures and smart materials.
5/10/2025
Penn State researchers have developed a lightweight, 3D-printed hydrogel electrode that adheres like a strand of hair to the scalp, enabling comfortable, long-term brain monitoring without gels or rigid components. The device delivers stable, high-quality EEG signals for over 24 hours, offering a significant advancement for both clinical and wearable neurotechnology.
5/9/2025
Carbyne, a one-dimensional chain of carbon atoms, is incredibly strong for being so thin, making it an intriguing possibility for use in next-generation electronics, but its extreme instability causing it to bend and snap on itself made it nearly impossible to produce at all, let alone produce enough of it for advanced studies. Now, an international team of researchers, including from Penn State, may have a solution.
5/7/2025
Sky Semone, a doctoral student in electrical engineering at Penn State, received an honorable mention in the 2025 IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition for groundbreaking research on plasmonic metasurfaces. Their work was selected from 131 global submissions and will be presented at the IEEE AP-S/URSI Symposium in Ottawa.
5/6/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2025 commencement ceremony, which will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, May 9, in the Bryce Jordan Center at University Park.
5/5/2025
Professor Jin Wen has been named head of Penn State’s Department of Architectural Engineering, effective August 1. Wen follows Professor Jim Freihaut, who has served as interim head since January 2023. Wen will step down from her current position as interim vice dean for research, innovation and faculty advancement and professor of civil, architectural, and environmental engineering for the College of Engineering at Drexel University. for the College of Engineering at Drexel University.
5/5/2025
Schreyer Honors College has announced its 2024–25 award recipients, recognizing seven Scholars and two faculty members for their academic excellence and contributions to the college's mission.
5/2/2025
The future of electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring may soon look like a strand of hair. In place of the traditional metal electrodes, a web of wires and sticky adhesives, a team of researchers from Penn State created a hairlike device for long-term, non-invasive monitoring of the brain’s electrical activity. The lightweight and flexible electrode attaches directly to the scalp and delivers stable, high-quality recordings of the brain’s signals.
5/1/2025
In the United States, syphilis cases rose by nearly 80% between 2018 and 2023, with 209,253 cases reported in the latest year of data. The infection, which can be transmitted sexually or passed from mother to infant during birth, is curable but only if diagnosed quickly. Left untreated, syphilis can progress from painless lesions to brain and cardiovascular damage. Despite the first recorded outbreak of syphilis occurring more than 500 years ago — with some researchers theorizing that it has plagued humans for thousands of years — there still isn’t a way to quickly and reliably test for active syphilis infection, according to Penn State Professor Dipanjan Pan.
4/29/2025
Sukwon Choi, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, has been elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), one of the organization’s highest honors recognizing significant engineering achievements and professional contributions.
4/28/2025
Penn State’s Shell Eco-Marathon team recently placed third at the annual Shell Eco-Marathon, an international competition that challenges teams to design and build a vehicle with the highest possible fuel efficiency. The team — consisting mostly of mechanical engineering majors who participate in the competition as their senior capstone projects — raced against seven other teams in their category on April 2-6 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis.
4/25/2025
Penn State’s Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) announced the winners of its first-ever “Cheat-a-thon.” The virtual competition, held March 3 through April 6, invited faculty and students at universities across the United States to test the capabilities and limitations of using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to answer college-level questions.
4/25/2025
Faculty from the Penn State College of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science were recognized by a number of University-level awards this spring.
4/25/2025
Winners of the 17th annual Materials Visualization Competition at Penn State have been announced, with Jinsol Choi receiving Best of Show for “Nano soccer balls from nature.” The competition, which showcases materials research through visual art, awarded $1,800 in prizes across categories like scientific imaging and computer rendering.
4/25/2025
This spring, a class of Penn State students in "ENGR 422: Leadership of International Virtual Engineering Teams" navigated time zone differences and language barriers as they worked together to develop socially relevant engineering projects with students from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI).
4/25/2025
Penn State researchers have developed a cold sintering process that enables low-temperature, energy-efficient production of solid-state electrolytes for batteries, improving safety, conductivity, and scalability. The technique could accelerate the development of high-performance batteries for electric vehicles and electronics, while also offering potential in broader manufacturing applications.
4/25/2025
Penn State has announced the 2025 student winners of its annual sustainability awards, recognizing outstanding contributions to environmental and social sustainability across campus. Honorees include recipients of the John Roe Sustainability Impact Award for initiatives ranging from food security to climate advocacy and sustainability-focused filmmaking.
4/24/2025
An alumnus from the 1960s who built a successful career in the chemical industry has pledged an $8.5 million estate commitment to the Department of Chemical Engineering, funding multiple initiatives that will support the growth of students and faculty in the department for generations to come. The donor has chosen to remain anonymous.
4/24/2025
Two graduate students in Penn State’s Graduate Program in Acoustics, Olivia Heui Young Park and Grace Wood, designed, organized and hosted a workshop that helped students build their own 3D-printed dodecahedron speakers.
4/24/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering will recognize 21 alumni with the 2025 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award and Early Career Award in a ceremony on April 24 in the new Engineering Collaborative Research and Education (ECoRE) Building.
4/24/2025
A research team led by Hongtao Sun, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, published a paper investigating the use of an advanced manufacturing technology in the development of solid-state batteries. They published their research in an article featured in Materials Today Energy.
4/23/2025
The Penn State Learning Factory will host its biannual end-of-semester showcase for engineering students to present their cornerstone and capstone design projects from 1-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29, at the Bryce Jordan Center. The?virtual showcase?will take place Wednesday, April 30, through Friday, May 9.
4/23/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering community is mourning the loss of George Etzweiler, associate professor emeritus of electrical engineering, who died on March 16 at the age of 105.
4/22/2025
From microscopic robots that can carry and deliver drugs inside the human body to tiny particles that can detect and break down microplastics, an emerging field called active matter is looking toward the microscale to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.
4/21/2025
Saying one thing while feeling another is part of being human, but bottling up emotions can have serious psychological consequences like anxiety or panic attacks. To help health care providers tell the difference, a team led by scientists at Penn State has created a stretchable, rechargeable sticker that can detect real emotions — by measuring things like skin temperature and heart rate — even when users put on a brave face.
4/21/2025
Penn State recently launched the Center of Excellence in Directed Energy (CEDE), a University-wide center designed to conduct basic research on focused energy — like lasers or microwaves — to develop new applications and build up a workforce skilled in the science and systems development of directed energy (DE).
4/21/2025
The American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) recently awarded the 2025 Rock Mechanics Research Award to a team of Penn State researchers, including three from the College of Engineering. The recipients will be recognized at the annual ARMA Symposium, which will take place on June 8-11 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
4/17/2025
An interdisciplinary team from Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh developed a coastal management model that takes a chess-like approach to protecting shorelines against rising sea levels amid climate change uncertainty.
4/15/2025
Four Penn State undergraduates, including chemical engineering major Zach Badinger, were named Goldwater Scholars for 2025-26, based on their outstanding academic merit and research experience. Goldwater Scholars are selected for their potential as leaders in the fields of natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.
4/15/2025
The Materials Research Institute (MRI) at Penn State has announced the recipients of the 2025 Interdisciplinary Seed Grants and Transdisciplinary Teaming Initiative awards, designed to support collaborative, high-risk research with the potential for significant societal and technological impact.
4/15/2025
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers' (ASME) Mechanical Engineering Department Heads Executive Committee recently awarded the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award.
4/14/2025
Jonathan U. Dougherty has been honored with the Outstanding Service Award from the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School, which recognizes alumni who have achieved professional success while demonstrating significant service to the University and the Penn State Alumni Association
4/14/2025
Sven Bilén, professor of engineering design, of electrical engineering and of aerospace engineering, recently began the second year of a $1 million research program to develop thruster systems for very low earth orbit
4/11/2025
Low Design Office (LowDO), a Texas- and Ghana-based architecture firm co-founded by Penn State architecture and engineering design professor DK Osseo-Asare, has been selected by the Walton Family Foundation as one of the 45 design firms to join its Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program.
4/11/2025
A group of 17 academic leaders from across Penn State, including Dan Hayes, head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Nanotherapeutics and Regenerative Medicine, recently completed the 2025 Excellence in Academic Leadership (EAL) program — an experience designed to strengthen leadership effectiveness and support ongoing professional growth.
4/11/2025
In a partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Penn State civil engineering researchers examined infrastructure development across Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, statistically modeling how each county’s transportation infrastructure impacted the economic health of the region and beyond.
4/11/2025
Over 100 students from Blue Ridge, Scranton and Wallenpaupack Area high schools recently visited Penn State Scranton for Discover Engineering Day, a collaborative event by the Penn State Engineering Ambassadors Program and Penn State Scranton and University students, faculty and staff
4/11/2025
Christopher Kube, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected to lead a multidisciplinary team on a two-year, $1 million grant from the Structures Uniquely Resolved to Guarantee Performance (SURGE) program of the federally funded Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a method to detect, measure and localize porosity defects inside 3D-printed metal parts while they are being made. Instead of waiting until after printing to check for flaws, Kube’s team will develop acoustic sensors built into the printing platform and ultrasonic microphones to detect and measure pores during the print.
4/10/2025
Ramin Rahimzadeh Khorasani, an electrical engineering graduate student in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received a best presentation award for his poster and presentation during the Low Voltage DC-DC Converters Technical Session of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition.
4/10/2025
A rainy day in 1990 helped spark Pennsylvania’s dirt and gravel road maintenance program, aimed at protecting water quality by reducing sediment runoff from unpaved roads. What began as a concern among trout fishermen has grown into a nationally recognized environmental effort, balancing rural transportation needs with ecological preservation.
4/10/2025
A rainy day in 1990 helped spark Pennsylvania’s dirt and gravel road maintenance program, aimed at protecting water quality by reducing sediment runoff from unpaved roads. What began as a concern among trout fishermen has grown into a nationally recognized environmental effort, balancing rural transportation needs with ecological preservation.
4/10/2025
The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers selected “Additive Manufacturing with Metals,” a book authored by one Penn State industrial engineering faculty member and three faculty members formerly affiliated with Penn State, the 2025 IISE/Joint Publishers Book of the Year award.
4/9/2025
Previously inaccessible regions reveal novel insights that may advance understanding of evolution and conservation genetics for endangered apes as well as human health.
4/9/2025
Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and his team had their research featured in a recent article by Interesting Engineering. Combining what Cheng calls “soft robotics and flexible electronics,” the team developed small, magnetic robots constructed out of materials that mimic living organisms.
4/9/2025
AI’s rapid expansion also drives higher water usage, emissions and e-waste, raising urgent sustainability concerns, according to Mahmut Kandemir, a distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and associate director of the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences.
Kandemir has spent his career optimizing computer systems for speed and efficiency. Now, he said he sees an unprecedented connection between his research and its environmental impact.
4/9/2025
Special biomedical materials that can be injected as a liquid and turn into a solid inside our bodies — called thermogels — could provide a less-invasive way to deliver drugs or treat wounds. Scientists at Penn State have developed a new design for these materials that further improves their properties and may hold particular promise for use in tissue regeneration, the researchers said.
4/7/2025
Four undergraduate members of Penn State’s land surveying club, Tristan Dobbs, Jonathan Smith, Luke Jones and Zachary Smith, placed fourth at the National Society of Professional Land Surveyors (NSPS) Student Competition on March 17-20 in Silver Spring, Maryland.
4/7/2025
A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international team led by researchers at Penn State are pioneering such adaptable robots by integrating flexible electronics with magnetically controlled motion.
4/7/2025
Tak Sing Wong, professor of mechanical engineering and of biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was named a fellow by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
4/4/2025
Two Penn State civil engineering students were awarded scholarships from the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust. Xueyang Wang, a second-year graduate student in civil engineering, was awarded $2,500, and Matthew Griffiths, a recent Penn State alumnus of the civil engineering program who was a student at the time of application, was awarded $5,000.
4/4/2025
Penn State recognized 42 graduate students, including eight from the College of Engineering, with annual University awards that celebrate students' impact in research, scholarship, teaching, outreach, mentoring and more.
4/4/2025
Thirty-one graduate students, including four from the College of Engineering, received awards at the 2025 Graduate Exhibition, hosted by the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School on Friday, March 28, on the University Park campus.
4/4/2025
More than 400 students from 20 universities attended the symposium on March 27-29, which this year was hosted by Penn State’s student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The event offered a variety of civil engineering competitions, presentations and professional development opportunities to student engineers.
4/3/2025
A team of Penn State researchers used a new 3D printing method to produce a complex metal build that was once only possible with welding: fusing two metals together into a single structure. Using an advanced additive manufacturing process known as multi-material laser powder bed fusion — enabled by a newly acquired system in Penn State’s Center for Innovative Materials Processing Through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D) — the researchers printed a complex structure out of a blend of low-carbon stainless steel and bronze, which consists of 90% copper and 10% tin.
4/3/2025
Kaleigh Yost, the L. Robert and Mary L. Kimball Early Career Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, recently received the Younger Member Award from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). She also was recently elected to serve on a board representing geotechnical faculty.
4/2/2025
Computer science major Parth Gosar was honored with the 2025 John W. Oswald Award for his leadership in social services, religious activities and student government.
4/2/2025
Daniel Russel, teaching professor of acoustics and distance education coordinator, was quoted in an article covering a novel baseball bat design recently published by NPR. In the article, Russel shares perspective on the trend of “torpedo bats” overtaking baseball right now, which are shaped like a bowling pin to mirror how hitters tend to contact the ball.
4/1/2025
Six nuclear engineering researchers in the Penn State Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering were recently awarded Nuclear Energy University Program grants from the U.S. Department of Energy.
4/1/2025
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awarded Spencer Szczesny, associate professor of biomedical engineering and of orthopedics and rehabilitation, the Y.C. Fung Young Early Career Award. Szczesny will receive the award and deliver a speech on tendon development and inclusive science at ASME’s Summer Bioengineering Conference on June 22-25 in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.
3/31/2025
A multi-institutional team led by Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Penn State, recently received a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop the next generation of synthetic blood.
3/31/2025
The American Heart Association (AHA) awarded Nivetha Gunaseelan, a doctoral candidate studying biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, a predoctoral fellowship.
3/31/2025
The Three Minute Thesis competition, started by the University of Queensland, is a research communication event that challenges students to summarize the impact of their research for a general audience in only three minutes with one presentation slide.
3/31/2025
A team of undergraduates and their faculty adviser, consisting of Garrett Weber, Shayaan Gandhi and Paul Mittan, recently placed second overall against 65 other teams at Lockheed Martin's eighth annual Ethics in Engineering Competition.
3/31/2025
A team of researchers at Penn State are following a “selective learning” approach — where scientists only collect data needed for a specific problem, instead of collecting all available data and sorting through to find what applies to a problem — to make artificial intelligence (AI)-powered systems like unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) more efficient.
3/31/2025
Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College has chosen five Scholar Alumni, including two from the College of Engineering, to receive the 2025 Scholar Alumni Awards in recognition of their professional achievements and contributions to both the world and to Schreyer Honors College.
3/27/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering has added 25 faculty members since February 2024. The four tenure-line faculty and 21 professional track faculty represent 10 units and departments.
3/26/2025
The Penn State Emeritus Academy has announced the induction of seven esteemed emeritus faculty members as Academy Professors for Spring 2025, including Martin Pietrucha, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering, College of Engineering, University Park campus.
3/26/2025
Alexandria Rhoads, a third-year aerospace engineering undergraduate student in the Penn State College of Engineering, has been named a recipient of the 2025 Brooke Owens Fellowship.
3/26/2025
Penn State electrical engineering students Jasmine Khalil, Annabelle Johnson and Evan Marcinkevage were recently chosen by the Council on Undergraduate Research to participate in the Scholars Transforming Through Research Advocacy Program in Washington, D.C., which coaches students on communicating their undergraduate research to their communities.
3/26/2025
Ali Memari, professor of civil and environmental engineering and of architectural engineering, the Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction and director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center, discusses potential solutions to the U.S. housing crisis in an article published by AP News.
3/26/2025
The fall 2024 cohort of the Penn State Emerging Academic Leaders (PSEAL) program have successfully completed their semester-long professional development experience.
3/25/2025
A team led by researchers at Penn State is working to accelerate drug discovery, with the potential to treat rare diseases, by improving the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Biomedical Data Translator (Translator) — a network of computer interfaces that take biomedical research questions and provide fact-based responses.
3/24/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering’s Office of Corporate and Industry Engagement
invites engineering faculty to I-CONNECT: Intellectual Property and Innovation. The event will take place virtually and on campus at 504 Engineering Collaborative Research and Education
Building (ECoRE) from 12:30 – 2 p.m. ET on April 2.
3/21/2025
High school students interested in learning how modern buildings go from a dream to reality are invited to the new Building Our Future Summer Camp this summer.
3/19/2025
The Engineering Ambassadors Network recently held a three-day-long Spring Leadership Conference at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.
3/18/2025
The study, conducted in mice, revealed that sevelamer can successfully remove off-target antibiotics from the gut.
3/17/2025
It may someday be possible to listen to a favorite podcast or song without disturbing the people around you, even without wearing headphones. In a new advancement in audio engineering, a team of researchers led by Yun Jing, professor of acoustics in the Penn State College of Engineering, has precisely narrowed where sound is perceived by creating localized pockets of sound zones, called audible enclaves. In an enclave, a listener can hear sound, while others standing nearby cannot, even if the people are in an enclosed space, like a vehicle, or standing directly in front of the audio source.
3/14/2025
Scott Medina, the William and Wendy Korb Early Career Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, was quoted in a recent article published by the U.S. National Science Foundation. His team is researching biomedical technology that could revolutionize how vaccines and other drugs are stored.
3/13/2025
NexDCCool Technologies, a Penn State research-based startup launched by Wangda Zuo’s, Penn State professor of architectural engineering in the College of Engineering and associate director for research at the Global Building Network lab, is developing a platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that aims to optimize the cooling systems in data centers, helping them maximize IT capacity by reducing cooling demand.
3/13/2025
Sven Bilén, professor of engineering design, of electrical engineering and of aerospace engineering at Penn State, recently authored an article about 3D printing featured on The Conversation, a site that hosts expert discussion of research and trends in science.
3/10/2025
Kenan Ünlü, director of the Radiation Science and Engineering Center and professor of nuclear engineering, has been named a member of the Laboratory Assessments Board by the National Academy of Sciences for Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Center for Neutron Research.
3/6/2025
A team of Penn State civil engineering students won the Constructors Association of
Western Pennsylvania’s (CAWP) ninth-annual student estimating competition for the third year in a row on Feb. 20-22.
3/5/2025
A partnership between Penn State and Westinghouse Electric Co., a leading producer of nuclear
technology, was recently featured on several media outlets, including Interesting Engineering, Axios Pittsburgh and World Nuclear News.
3/4/2025
Drawing on strong heritages of innovation to meet the renewed interest in nuclear energy, Penn State and Westinghouse Electric Co. are partnering to unlock the potential of the industry-leading eVinci microreactor by engaging with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to develop a new nuclear research facility at the University Park campus.
3/3/2025
The latest episode of Growing Impact discusses how environmental contaminants affect human health, a research focus for Penn State professors Andrew Patterson and Costas Maranas.
3/3/2025
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has named Hee Jueng Oh, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, a Young Observer.
3/3/2025
Penn State engineering science and mechanics research was featured in an article recently published to Yahoo Finance. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, discusses the development of a porous plastic sheet that can be used as a wall and roof liner to passively reduce indoor room temperature.
3/3/2025
A synthetic microbiome therapy, tested in mice, protects against severe symptoms of a gut infection that is notoriously difficult-to-treat and potentially life threatening in humans, according to a team of researchers at Penn State.
3/3/2025
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning (ASHRAE) recently awarded Wangda Zuo, professor of architectural engineering, affiliate professor of mechanical engineering and associate director for research of Penn State’s Global Building Network, the title of fellow.
2/28/2025
Andrea Gregg, associate research professor of mechanical engineering and director of learning experience design, received two awards for a book she co-authored on online learning — the 2025 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature and the American Library Association’s (ALA) Choice Outstanding Academic Titles Award for 2024.
2/28/2025
Divya Tyagi, an aerospace engineering graduate student, and Sven Schmitz, the Boeing/A.D. Welliver Professor of Aerospace Engineering, were quoted in an Interesting Engineering article that discusses a recent wind turbine breakthrough made by Tyagi.
2/27/2025
Support from Aramco has funded spaces for pioneering research and community-building among engineering students and faculty. Penn State has recognized Aramco’s continued support with the naming of the Aramco High Bay and Aramco Lobby area in the Engineering Design and Innovation Building at University Park.
2/27/2025
Jennifer K. Wagner, assistant professor of law, policy, and engineering and of anthropology at Penn State, has been named the associate director of the Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation, effective immediately.
2/26/2025
In November of 2024, two professors from the Penn State College of Engineering — Igor Aronson, Huck Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Mathematics, and Slava V. Rotkin, Frontier Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and professor of physics and of biomedical engineering — visited four leading research universities in Kazakhstan to deepen and expand strategic collaborations.
2/25/2025
Nathaniel Warner, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was quoted in a story on hazardous waste pollution found in the Sewickley Creek in Western Pennsylvania. Warner commented on his study that found radioactivity in freshwater mussels in the Allegheny River miles downstream of a wastewater treatment facility that had accepted fracking wastewater.
2/25/2025
NASA’s Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification project, led by Penn State civil engineering researchers, was featured in NASA’s 2024 Annual Highlight of Results. Results from this research will improve researchers' understanding of concrete hardening, and could support innovations for civil engineering, construction and manufacturing of industrial materials on exploration missions.
2/24/2025
Penn State’s Autonomous Robotics Competition Club recently developed a low-cost, unmanned aircraft system. The two-drone system includes 2D and 3D mapping technology that can assist law enforcement and first responders in indoor searches.
2/22/2025
Scott Medina, the William and Wendy Korb Early Career Professor of Biomedical Engineering, discusses the storage and financial difficulties associated with vaccine refrigeration, and how his team's research utilizing particular surfactant molecules and oil-based solutions could allow for unrefrigerated vaccine storage in an article featured on Pittsburgh’s NPR news station, 90.5 WESA.
2/21/2025
Nathan Brown, assistant professor of architectural engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $587,000 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for a project titled, “Active Designer-Computer Collaborative Conceptual Design Using Data-driven Models.”
2/21/2025
Divya Tyagi’s work expands research in aerodynamics, unlocking new possibilities in wind turbine design that Hermann Glauert, a British aerodynamicist and the original author, did not consider.
2/20/2025
Gang “Gary” Tan, professor of computer science and engineering and co-director of the Institute for Networking and Security Research at Penn State, has been named a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
2/18/2025
Ilya Kovalenko, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $689,000 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for a project titled, “Intelligent Products for Mass Individualization in Manufacturing Systems.”
2/18/2025
Tahira Reid Smith, the Arthur L. Glenn Professor of Engineering Education and Associate Department Head for Inclusive Research and Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, received a Dedicated Service Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
2/17/2025
Penn State’s Office of Faculty Affairs recently named Zoubeida Ounaies, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems, a distinguished professor.
2/15/2025
The Penn State Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation hosted its inaugural Student IdeaLab on the University Park campus in December 2024, bringing together a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students interested in shaping the future of the real estate and built environment sectors.
2/14/2025
The Pennsylvania Housing Research Center (PHRC), housed in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, will host a residential construction conference on March 26-27 at the Central Hotel and Conference Center in Harrisburg.
2/7/2025
The construction engineering and management (CEM) program in the Penn State Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering aims to provide students with the educational and leadership skills they need to help maintain and continue growth in the construction industry. Two Penn State engineering alumni rebuilt the program to fulfill the need for skilled industry leaders.
2/5/2025
A major challenge in self-powered wearable sensors for health care monitoring is distinguishing different signals when they occur at the same time. Researchers from Penn State and China’s Hebei University of Technology addressed this issue by uncovering a new property of a sensor material, enabling the team to develop a new type of flexible sensor that can accurately measure both temperature and physical strain simultaneously but separately to more precisely pinpoint various signals.
2/5/2025
An international team of researchers co-led by Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Penn State Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, developed porous plastic sheets that can lower room temperatures through radiative cooling.
2/5/2025
Scott Milner, the William H. Joyce Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected to receive the 2025 Polymer Physics Prize by the American Physics Society. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishment and excellence of contributions in polymer physics research.
2/4/2025
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently awarded Mohammadreza Abbasi, an electrical engineering doctoral student in the Penn State College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship.
2/3/2025
Penn State engineers developed a bio-based, "living" material that mimics certain behaviors within biological tissues, a potential step forward for advance regenerative medicine, disease modeling, soft robotics and more.
1/30/2025
Halfway through the inaugural year of the Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering’s undergraduate research program, students met to present and receive feedback on their work.
1/29/2025
Two professors in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), William Higgins and Christos Argyropoulos, were recently named fellows of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
1/28/2025
Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, received a Mid-Career Investigator Award from the Chinese Association for Biomaterials (CAB).
1/28/2025
Photon-counting CT scanning is the next-generation of computer tomography diagnostics, providing precise, multi-color imaging to simultaneously track biological processes.
1/27/2025
Few facilities embody the storied history of Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) as well as the Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel (GTWT) building, which recently celebrated its 75th anniversary.
1/27/2025
The Institute of Energy and the Environment recognized six Penn State faculty members for their research excellence - four of whom are affiliated with the College of Engineering. The College of Engineering faculty who received awards were Margaret Busse, Brian Fronk, Lauren McPhillips and Nathaniel Warner.
1/24/2025
Catherine Berdanier, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is one of three Penn State faculty members awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the White House announced on Jan. 14.
1/23/2025
Three computer science researchers in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) are teaming up to build a “honeypot,” a decoy suite of fake networks, devices and domains to entrap and deceive such hackers. They received a two-year, $557,000 grant from the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command, with the possibility of renewal.
1/23/2025
Tao Zhou, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics and of biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $660,000 U.S. National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award to develop injectable and stretchable hydrogel electrodes to treat spinal cord injuries.
1/23/2025
Three undergraduate members of the Penn State chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), Grace Bonnell, Julio Vasquez, and Gabriel Gayoso won the Academic Olympiad competition at the 50th Annual SHPE National Convention.
1/23/2025
Led by Parisa Shokouhi, Penn State professor of engineering science and of acoustics, a team of researchers developed a machine learning model for labquake prediction that can also automatically retrieve specific parameters — known as rate and state friction parameters — from the ultrasonic monitoring of stick-slip experiments. The rate and state friction parameters define the mechanics of the labquakes; they determine the strength of the fault, signaling how close it is to failure.
1/21/2025
Penn State engineering researchers have developed a portable and wireless device to simultaneously detect vitamin C and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, by integrating commercial transistors with printed laser-induced graphene.
1/21/2025
The production of fuel cells requires the use of a rapid laser welding process; however, welding at too high a speed results in humping, marked by surface irregularities on the weld seam. A team led by researchers at Penn State has combined observation and analytical modeling to identify the conditions that produce humping at high laser welding speeds and to adjust the process parameters to increase weld speed without causing surface irregularities.
1/21/2025
Several engineering programs offered by Penn State World Campus were recently ranked as some of the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
1/16/2025
A new storage technique can keep protein-based drugs and vaccines stable without keeping them cold. The discovery, led by researchers at Penn State, could eliminate the need for refrigeration for hundreds of life-saving medicines like insulin, monoclonal antibodies and viral vaccines.
1/15/2025
Industrial engineering doctoral candidate Kevin Mekulu has been named to the 2025 Forbes
30 Under 30 list in the category of health care. He was selected for his work in improving screening for cognitive impairment with his artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology, which he developed through his startup, DementiAnalytics.
1/15/2025
A team led by researchers at Penn State recently received a $2,491,443 grant from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) to reduce emissions and increase thermal efficiency in industrial systems. The team, which includes researchers at Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics Inc., plans to achieve these goals by developing a new ceramic heat exchanger.
1/15/2025
Big data has enabled numerous benefits for industries like health care, finance, consumer technology, insurance and cybersecurity. However, working with larger and larger datasets also increases numerical issues within the algorithms. To better understand these machine learning problems and design more efficient solutions, Necdet Serhat Aybat, associate professor of industrial engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering and expert on algorithms, will co-lead a three-year, $800,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research.
1/13/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering has received a $19 million gift from the estate of E. Michael Ackley, placing Ackley among the top five individual donors in college history. The funds will support a variety of critical priorities including student scholarships to aid access and affordability, the college’s campus facilities modernization and faculty research.
1/13/2025
The development of new drugs is critical in treating cancer — if people have access to them. A team co-led by Penn State researchers identified cancer drugs launched between 1990 and 2022 and found that counties with higher gross national income (GNI) per capita typically had more launches and shorter launch delays.
1/13/2025
Penn State startup Fourth State Therapeutics is working to commercialize a cold plasma-based technology called the Plasma Patch. Founder and recent biomedical engineering doctoral graduate Ali Kazemi developed the patch with colleagues while completing his doctorate. He said the Plasma Patch is designed with the intention to reduce infections while simultaneously accelerating the healing process by priming the wound for recovery.
1/10/2025
Anand Sivasubramaniam, distinguished professor of computer science and engineering and associate head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was named a fellow by the National Academy of Investors.
1/10/2025
Ting He, associate professor in the school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Computer Science and Engineering, was recognized on the 2024 N²Women: Stars in Networking and Communications list. The list recognizes women who produce outstanding research or industry results in the field of networking and communications.
1/8/2025
Amrita Basak, the Shuman Early Career Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Herschel
Pangborn, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and of aerospace engineering, were selected to receive $750,000 to conduct research as 2025 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award recipients.
1/8/2025
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, A. Robert Noll Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Associate Dean for Innovation, received a Sydney R. Parker Best Paper Award from the journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing.
1/7/2025
The legacy of Michael Micci, the late Penn State professor of aerospace engineering and expert on space propulsion, will live on through a newly established early career professorship in aerospace `engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering. Established through a $500,000 gift from Micci’s family, the professorship will provide the holder with financial support during the first years of their academic career.
1/7/2025
Two Penn State Professors of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vishal Monga and Swaroop Ghosh, were recently recognized as 2025 IEEE Fellows, the highest level of recognition available in the organization.
1/6/2025
On Dec. 11-13, transportation professionals from around the country gathered at the Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center for the 30th anniversary of the Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute’s biggest event, the Transportation Engineering and Safety Conference (TESC).
1/2/2025
The January episode of “Growing Impact” discusses the search for cement replacements that are more environmentally friendly. Cement is one of the most energy-intensive products to produce, and the need for it continues to grow as infrastructure in many developing regions is expanding quickly. The primary concern in the cement manufacturing process is carbon dioxide emissions, which add up to 8% of all human CO2 emissions.
12/24/2024
Victor Sparrow, United Technologies Corporation Professor of Acoustics, shared his perspective on the risks associated with sonic booms caused by recent SpaceX launches in an article published on CNNScience.
12/19/2024
Due to its massive scale of production, concrete’s environmental impact is significant: It
accounts for 8% of the globe’s total annual carbon dioxide emissions. In the Penn State
College of Engineering, researchers are working to make a dent in that number
through innovations in manufacturing and carbon capture and storage.
12/16/2024
In his research, Xiaogang Hu, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neurorehabilitation and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, focuses on creating wearable assistive robotic systems for people with limited use of their limbs, especially their hands, with the goal of the user intuitively controlling the systems and devices on which they rely.
12/13/2024
Art developed for a Penn State Materials Science and Engineering research project was chosen as the inside back cover for an upcoming issue of Advanced Functional Materials, a popular science journal.
12/13/2024
A team led by Penn State researchers used principles of pulse monitoring in traditional Chinese medicine to design a pressure-sensing platform to identify the optimal pulse signal, which they
combined with a machine learning model to also predict blood pressure.
12/13/2024
Matthew Krull, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering at Penn State, was recently awarded a four-year fellowship with NASA’s Advanced Air Vehicles Program.
12/12/2024
Gina Noh, associate professor of chemical engineering, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Michael and Nikki Griffin Early Career Professorship. This new initiative recognizes faculty members in the early stages of their career, and grants them funding to continue their research at Penn State.
12/11/2024
The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) has announced the results of its most recent seed-funding competition, awarding 3 engineering professors and their team members' projects with funding.
12/11/2024
Prioritizing closing coal-fired power plants near vulnerable communities could significantly improve air quality and public health outcomes, according to a new multi-institutional study.
12/10/2024
The shift from an awake state to unconsciousness is a phenomenon that has long captured the interest of scientists and philosophers alike, but how it happens has remained a mystery — until now. Through studies on rats, a team of researchers at Penn State has pinpointed the exact moment of loss of consciousness due to anesthesia, mapping what happens in different brain regions during that moment.
12/9/2024
Keefe Manning, Penn State professor of biomedical engineering with a courtesy appointment as a professor of surgery, was elected fellow of the American Heart Association by the association's stroke council.
12/6/2024
With a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a team of biomedical engineering researchers will apply ultrasound imaging technology to monitor the transport of genetically engineered, cancer-fighting macrophages into brain tumors.
12/4/2024
Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, was featured on the Web of Science Group’s 2024 Highly Cited Researchers List. Cheng is joined by another college of engineering faculty member, Long-Qing Chen, Donald W. Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
12/4/2024
Ten graduate students from eight academic programs, including three students studying in the College
of Engineering, have been named finalists for the 2024-25 Penn State Three
Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
12/3/2024
Three-dimensional (3D) printing isn’t just a way to produce material products quickly. It also offers researchers a way to develop replicas of human tissue that could be used to improve human health, such as building organs for transplantation, studying disease progression and screening new drugs.
12/3/2024
A team of Penn State researchers used mathematical modeling to explain the underlying mechanism at play in X-ray emissions that was previously not understood.
12/3/2024
Six Penn State materials researchers, including three affiliated with the College of Engineering, have received the 2024 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award, recognizing a wide range of research with societal impact.
11/27/2024
The Sustainable Communities Collaborative (SCC) at Penn State Sustainability (SustainPSU) has coordinated a record number of partnership projects with the Borough of State College this semester.
11/26/2024
Combining stem cells and silicon nanowires in lab-grown tissue has shown promise as a step toward a new treatment for heart disease, the leading cause of death worldwide, according to a multi-institutional research team. The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute recently awarded the team a five-year, $2.6 million grant to move the work forward.
11/26/2024
The new Opportunity Grant Professional Development Program awarded its first grants to 51 teaching and clinical non-tenure-line faculty, including two from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
11/22/2024
Since 2001, the Penn State Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies, housed in the Larson Transportation Institute in the College of Engineering, has worked to reduce the environmental impact of dirt and gravel roads and undersized bridges and culverts. Most recently, the research center worked with the U.S. Forest Service to develop a standard to replace stream crossings in Pennsylvania. The first few stream crossings designed with this new standard were recently completed.
11/22/2024
Microrobots are engineered entities that contain very simple electronic circuits and propulsion machinery that allows them to push or drive forward. Individually, these robots can execute simple behaviors such as forward movements. Collectively, these microrobots can work together with seemingly intelligent behaviors to respond to signals, maintain and restore a larger shape or detect threats. How does intelligent-like behavior emerge in the system of simple interacting units?
11/20/2024
To help manufacturing workers keep pace with the evolution of skills required in this important sector, the Penn State College of Engineering will offer a new set of manufacturing microcredential courses, beginning in February 2025 and running throughout the spring, summer and fall.
11/20/2024
Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle career development professor, associate professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, discusses his experience and rationale behind choosing to publish his research, “Multimodal sensors with Decoupled Sensing Mechanisms,” through Advanced Science’s open access library in a video interview.
11/19/2024
Angie Castro, a chemical engineering doctoral student, was recognized with an award at the American Institute for Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) annual poster session. Castro rose above 90+ other entries to be recognized as the second place winner of the Materials Engineering & Sciences Division (MESD).
11/19/2024
Syed Rafiul Hussain, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, leads a research team addressing a variety of mobile network vulnerabilities. The team's research focuses on issues in hardware, coding and networking, that leave everyone, from the network providers to the end user of the phone, at risk.
11/18/2024
Phosphorus, a nutrient in soil essential for sustaining most forms of life, is increasingly disappearing from land as it is washed into waterways throughout the United States, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State.
11/18/2024
The Penn State Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase at the Bryce Jordan Center on Dec. 10 and its virtual showcase Wednesday, Dec. 11 through Friday, Dec. 20. Both versions of the event are free and open to the public.
11/15/2024
The Penn State College of Engineering invites alumni and friends to support engineering student success through a GivingTuesday gift on Dec. 3 as Penn State celebrates its tenth GivingTuesday.
11/15/2024
Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation Michael Carroll will speak at the Penn State student chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ (ITE) Student Leadership Summit (SLS) later this year. The Penn State ITE student chapter encourages all interested students to attend the first SLS held in the ITE’s Mid-Colonial District (MCDITE) on Nov. 15-16, 2024 at the University Park campus.
11/15/2024
Katherine Marakovits' undergraduate research focuses on the connections between arts and science in the industry setting, and how educators can utilize art to improve engineering curriculum.
11/15/2024
China recently limited the export of gallium nitride, a type of wide bandgap semiconductor used to manufacture a variety of consumer power electronics, such as cell phones and computers, as well as medical devices, cars, wind turbines, solar farms, LED lightbulbs and more. Patrick Lenahan, distinguished professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, will investigate the possibility of replacing gallium nitride-based devices with boron nitride.
11/14/2024
Nate Osikowicz, a Penn State doctoral student in aerospace engineering, has received a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) award. The NSTGRO sponsors graduate students who have the potential to contribute to the development of innovative new space technologies.
11/13/2024
Tahira Reid Smith, professor of mechanical engineering and engineering design, associate department head for inclusive research and education and Arthur L. Glenn Professor of Engineering Education, was featured on a recent episode of PBS NOVA.
11/13/2024
A simple biomaterial-based strategy that can influence the behavior of cells could pave the way for more effective medical treatments such as wound healing, cancer therapy and even organ regeneration, according to a research team at Penn State.
11/12/2024
As the managing director for Penn State's Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization (CNEU), Zachary Gray spends a lot of his summer in the classroom. He works to teach veterans and students how to work at microscopic scales as part of a 12-week course — the same one that shifted his career path almost two decades ago.
11/12/2024
A group of Penn State civil engineers recently held a drone flying demonstration for students at the Park Forest and Mount Nittany middle schools in State College, Pennsylvania.
11/12/2024
Joshua Benjestorf, a Penn State electrical engineering Ph.D. candidate and CEO of Non-Metallic Connectors, Inc., was awarded a Forty under 40 award by the Central Penn Business Journal.
11/12/2024
Stephanie Velegol, associate department head and teaching professor of chemical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, received the Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Teaching Practice from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
11/8/2024
Five Penn State aerospace engineering graduate students, including two brothers, were selected for the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Scholarship-for-Service Program, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Defense.
11/8/2024
A WTAJ article and video featured the expansion of the Penn State Steady Research Turbine Laboratory (START Lab) and quoted Reid Berdanier, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the START Lab.
11/8/2024
A team of researchers led by Nanyin Zhang, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Brain Imaging and professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, recently published their findings about how blood flow changes to different brain regions relate to what is happening with the brain's neurons.
11/7/2024
To build the interest of students in pre-K through grade 12 in STEM fields, a team of aerospace engineering undergraduates built a fleet of LEGO models of vertical flight vehicles and demonstrate them at outreach events.
11/7/2024
Richard Wilson has been named the fall 2024 student marshal for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) at Penn State. He will receive a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Penn State College of Engineering with a minor in military studies.
11/7/2024
The Penn State Board of Trustees Committee on Finance and Investment advanced a proposal today (Nov. 7) for renovations and additions to Sackett Building, which borders the southwest edge of Pattee Mall on the University Park campus. The full Board of Trustees will consider the proposal at its meeting on Nov. 8.
11/6/2024
Adri van Duin, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, and Yun Kyung Shin, associate research professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, are part of a University of Wyoming (UW)-led research team that will study 2D covalent organic frameworks (COFs) — a family of materials designed have optimal traits for use in separating out different materials.
11/1/2024
The latest episode of "Growing Impact" explores how a research team is using computer modeling and animations to visualize future flood and levee failure scenarios.
11/1/2024
Eight Penn State College of Engineering graduate students have received the Diefenderfer Graduate Fellowship in Entrepreneurship for the 2024-2025 academic year. The Diefenderfer Graduate Fellowship encourages and provides financial support to innovative and entrepreneurial graduate engineering students.
11/1/2024
David Reger, a nuclear engineering doctorate student, has been selected as a recipient of the 2024 Mark Mills Award by the Education, Training and Workforce Division (ETWDD) of the American Nuclear Society.
11/1/2024
— Faculty, staff and students from across Penn State and especially in the College of Engineering and Materials Research Institute (MRI) are mourning the loss of Russ Messier, graduate alumnus and professor emeritus of engineering science and mechanics, who died on Oct. 11 at age 80 in Nashua, New Hampshire.
10/30/2024
Aneesh Kshirsagar, an electrical engineering PhD student advised by Dr. Weihua Guan, received a Best Paper Award at the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Healthcare Innovation - Point-Of-Care Technologies Conference late last month. The paper's findings could help significantly advance virus testing by providing real-time, accurate diagnostics in settings where complex lab equipment is unavailable.
10/30/2024
Faculty and staff in Penn State’s Law, Policy, and Engineering initiative were recently tapped by the governor’s office to lead a two-day training program in September in Harrisburg on science and technology policy. The faculty and staff are part of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Science and Technology Policy Program (COPA-STEP), which is run by LPE and aims to improve public and environmental health, economic and social equity, and public scientific discourse in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
10/30/2024
Stefano Terlizzi joined the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering as the John and Jean M. Brennan Clean Energy Early Career Professor on July 22. In this Q&A, Terlizzi talks about his research background and interests, why he chose Penn State and more.
10/29/2024
Keisha Oliver, who is pursuing a dual-title doctoral degree in art education and African American and diaspora studies, was named a fall 2024 artist-in-residence at the Penn State College of Engineering’s Learning Factory.
10/29/2024
Saptarshi Das, the Ackley Professor of Engineering Science and professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, was featured in a Q&A from Penn Stater Magazine.
10/29/2024
Microplastics have been steadily increasing in freshwater environments for decades and are directly tied to rising global plastic production since the 1950s, according to a new study by an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers.
10/29/2024
When the brain experiences an injury, it can be difficult to definitively diagnose a concussion as the trauma is often limited to inside the skull and cannot be accurately assessed. Reuben Kraft, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Penn State College of Engineering and co-hire with the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), and his collaborators are using computational methods and tools — such as custom mouthguard sensors — to model and predict injury in the human brain.
10/28/2024
Anshul Balamwar, a doctoral student in industrial engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, received a best track paper award in the Engineering Economy Division at the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers’ annual conference.
10/28/2024
Mary Frecker, department head of mechanical engineering, Riess Chair of Engineering and director of the Penn State Center for Biodevices, recently co-authored an article featured in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Select Articles magazine. "What is mechanical engineering" features perspectives from Penn State alumni Michele Beisler and Brain Pandya on their work in the field.
10/25/2024
A team led by Penn State researchers brings traditional black and white diagnostic images of X-rays and traditional CT scans into technicolor. The researchers developed novel contrast agents that target two proteins implicated in osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease commonly characterized as wear-and-tear arthritis.
10/24/2024
Penn State’s Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation has awarded its inaugural seed grants. These grants are designed to support interdisciplinary research projects that foster collaboration led by Penn State researchers, aiming to make a significant impact on the future of the built environment and real estate practice.
10/23/2024
Gene Myers, owner and chief sustainability officer of Thrive Home Builders in Denver will deliver the 2024 Hankin Distinguished Lecture, hosted by the residential construction program and the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center, housed in Penn State’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His talk, “A Homebuilder’s Journey to Carbon Neutral Construction,” will be held at 4 p.m. on Nov. 6 in Robb Hall at the Hintz Family Alumni Center at University Park.
10/23/2024
From the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building on Shortlidge Road to offices, labs and classrooms around the globe, nearly 10,000 alumni, 500 undergraduate and graduate students, and 45 faculty, post-doctoral candidates and staff call the Penn State Department of Chemical Engineering (CHE) home. This year, the department is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of a chemical engineering degree program at Penn State in 1924-25 and the first 11 chemical engineering bachelor’s degrees granted in May 1925.
10/23/2024
Julianna Simon, an associate professor of acoustics and biomedical engineering, was awarded a Frederic Lizzi Early Career Award by the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound in Taipei, Taiwan last month. This prestigious award recognizes and celebrates the achievements of individuals early in their careers in the field of therapeutic ultrasound.
10/22/2024
Hannah Priller has been named the fall 2024 student marshal for the Penn State College of Engineering. She will receive bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the College of Engineering and in chemistry from the Eberly College of Science at the University’s?undergraduate commencement ceremony, which will be held at 1 p.m. on Dec. 22 in the Bryce Jordan Center.
10/21/2024
Margery E. Hoffman, widow of 1982 Penn State civil engineering doctoral alumnus Paul C. Hoffman, has committed a $1.05M estate gift to establish an endowment to benefit graduate students in civil engineering in her husband's memory.
10/17/2024
The Penn State Climate Consortium has awarded funding to four research projects through its Climate Solutions Accelerator Program. Through this program, the consortium aims to put promising climate solutions into action via interdisciplinary partnerships.
10/17/2024
High school students from the region recently gathered at Penn State DuBois to participate in Discover Engineering Day, an event designed to introduce them to the vast opportunities available within the engineering field.
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
Three Penn State students took the stage at The Global Impact Forum (TGIF) 2024 to share the knowledge and practical experience they’ve acquired while using artificial intelligence and machine learning as part of programs offered through the Nittany AI Alliance.
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.
10/11/2024
A toxic version of a certain protein may affect brain, spinal cord and skeletal muscle tissues differently, leading to the complex development and progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a new study by a team of researchers from Penn State College of Medicine.
10/10/2024
The J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School at Penn State recognized 110 graduate students, including 20 College of Engineering students, as recipients of the 2024-2025 University Graduate Fellowships. These students were honored at a reception held in the Bryce Jordan Center on Oct. 3.
10/10/2024
Andrew Pannone, research co-author and doctoral student in engineering science and mechanics and Saptarshi Das, Ackley Professor of Engineering and professor of engineering science and mechanics are quoted on Interesting Engineering in reference to their research surrounding an AI powered electronic tongue that can discern between different types of liquid with a high level of accuracy.
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 recently developed electronic tongue is capable of identifying differences in similar liquids, such as milk with varying water content; diverse products, including soda types and coffee blends; signs of spoilage in fruit juices; and instances of food safety concerns. The team, led by researchers at Penn State, also found that results were even more accurate when artificial intelligence (AI) used its own assessment parameters to interpret the data generated by the electronic tongue.
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.
10/9/2024
In the final round of the first Penn State Three Minute Thesis competition in March 2024, 11 graduate students took the stage at the Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center to show off their research, represent themselves, and compete for both prize money and the opportunity to compete in a regional 3MT competition
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.
10/4/2024
Twelve Penn State faculty members, including two from the College of Engineering, received Fulbright Scholar Awards for the 2024-25 academic year, according to the?Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.?An additional four faculty members, including two from the College of Engineering, have been named Fulbright Specialist Award recipients.??
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.
10/1/2024
Two Penn State University Libraries faculty librarians were recently given statewide awards from the Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA) that honor its members and volunteers “who go above and beyond the call of duty to support the work of libraries throughout the commonwealth.”
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.
9/26/2024
The Schreyer Honors College “Following the Gong” podcast provides a glimpse into where life takes alumni following their time at Penn State and how their Penn State experiences shaped their career paths.
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
The newly constructed Engineering Collaborative Engineering Research and Education Building (ECoRE), the latest expansion for the College of Engineering onto West Campus at Penn State University Park, is a showcase for collaboration, both in how it was built and how it will be used by faculty, staff and students at the University.
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.
