2/21/2020
After graduating in 2012, College of Engineering alumnus John-Thomas "JT" Marino co-founded Tuft & Needle, a direct-to-consumer online mattress retailer.
2/21/2020
Chemical engineering senior Rebecca Aloi serves as director of the Rules and Regulations Fundraising Safety committee for the 2020 THON, to be held Feb. 21-23 at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus.
2/21/2020
Nathanial Warner, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, will research new methods of collecting water-quality data, including the development of sensors built with open-source hardware and software.
2/21/2020
Alp Durmus, a researcher who specializes in color science, lighting quality, the visual perception of architectural spaces and next-generation lighting systems, will join the Penn State Department of Architectural Engineering as assistant professor on March 16.
2/20/2020
A building at Innovation Park at Penn State was recommended to be named in honor of Guion S. Bluford, Penn State aerospace engineering alumnus and internationally renowned astronaut and engineering leader.
2/20/2020
Michael Weismiller, a triple Penn State alumnus who earned doctoral, master's and bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering, has been awarded the 2020 Outstanding Early Career Award from the Penn State Mechanical Engineering Alumni Society.
2/19/2020
The breadth of Penn State's research expertise surpasses that of any university in the country, according to the latest National Science Foundation rankings of Higher Education Research and Development research expenditures by key fields and subfields, released in November 2019.
2/18/2020
The family of the late Lloyd E. Thomas, a 1961 University alumnus in agricultural engineering, has named the Lloyd E. Thomas Family Department Head Suite in the renovated Agricultural Engineering Building.
2/18/2020
Khalil Ramadi, who graduated with his bachelor's degree in mechanical and biomedical engineering from Penn State in 2014, has been named a TED fellow.
2/18/2020
Penn State will be well positioned to recognize and interpret the social implications of artificial intelligence (AI), thanks to a new, multi-unit research center launched this spring.
2/18/2020
The Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, in collaboration with the Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems in the Smeal College of Business, will host the 2020 INFORMS Simulation Society Workshop from June 21 to 24 on the University Park campus.
2/18/2020
Jacqueline O'Connor, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, will lead the newly created Center for Gas Turbine Research, Education, and Outreach.
2/17/2020
Work by Scott Tucker, a third-year medical student in Penn State College of Medicine’s M.D./Ph.D. Medical Scientist Training Program, was featured on the cover of the November 2019 Journal of Orthopaedic Research.
2/17/2020
Building on the success of previous years, the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) will host two week-long summer camps geared toward girls in middle and high school.
2/14/2020
Mary Frecker, professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at Penn State, has been named the Riess Chair in the College of Engineering.
2/14/2020
What were once concepts on a page or formulas on a whiteboard became actual experiences in a real-world setting when a group of chemical engineering graduate students visited the BASF plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania, last November.
2/13/2020
Steven Landry, professor of industrial engineering and associate department head of the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University, has been named department head of the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
2/12/2020
Amy Pritchett, head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the world's largest aerospace professional society.
2/12/2020
A method to observe a new class of topological materials, called Weyl semimetals, was developed by researchers at Penn State, MIT, Tohoku University, Japan and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.
2/12/2020
Two students representing the Penn State Smeal College of Business placed third recently in the ethics stream of the Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (ICBC) hosted by the Smith School of Business at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
2/12/2020
Because of Patrick McDaniel’s nationally recognized expertise in the area of cybersecurity, Sarah Small, communications strategist from the College of Engineering, sat down with him on Wednesday, Feb. 5, to better understand some of the technical flaws with the reporting app that delayed results for the Iowa caucus.
2/11/2020
Penn State researchers are investigating methods to 3D bioprint and grow the appropriate tissues for craniomaxillofacial reconstruction.
2/11/2020
On Feb. 7, the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering celebrated its graduate students and their visually engaging research contributions during the 2020 Vizzies.
2/11/2020
The Penn State College of Engineering awarded the 2020 Multidisciplinary Research Seed Grants to five faculty research teams across the College of Engineering, the College of Medicine and the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
2/11/2020
For Gretchen Macht, Penn State industrial engineering alumna, finding a major wasn't easy until her eye-opening conversation with Elena Joshi, the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering undergraduate coordinator.
2/11/2020
Guha Manogharan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, is embarking on a new research project that has the potential to transform the fundamentals of casting science by studying 3D design principles through the introduction of 3D sand printing.
2/10/2020
The A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation has committed $15.5 million to create the A. James Clark Scholars Program in the Penn State College of Engineering to support high-achieving engineering students with significant financial need.
2/10/2020
Sez Atamturktur, Harry and Arlene Schell Professor and head of Penn State’s Department of Architectural Engineering, says our national conversation about energy issues starts from the wrong vantage point, with residential and commercial buildings viewed as passive consumers of electricity that is produced far away and distributed by centralized systems.
2/10/2020
The evolution of viruses will be the focus of a five-year $3.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation's new program on convergence research, to an interdisciplinary team led by Penn State.
2/10/2020
The Pennsylvania Housing Research Center (PHRC), housed in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, will host the 28th annual PHRC Housing Conference from March 4-5 in State College at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.
2/7/2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are vulnerable to potentially dangerous hacks and manipulations, according to Patrick McDaniel, the William L. Weiss Professor of Information and Communications Technology in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
2/7/2020
Zoubeida Ounaies, professor and associate head for administration in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named the inaugural director of the Penn State Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems.
2/5/2020
Dave Stabler, a 1978 Penn State architectural engineering alumnus and former senior electrical engineer for Facility Dynamics Engineering, joined the Penn State Department of Architectural Engineering (AE) on Jan. 2 as assistant teaching professor.
2/5/2020
Kathryn W. Jablokow, professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering and associate chief academic officer, Penn State Great Valley, is headed to Alexandria, Virginia, for a two-year term as program director for the National Science Foundation's Engineering Design and Systems Engineering program in the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation.
2/5/2020
A $20,000 gift from Lockheed Martin has helped to establish and support the continued advancement of the Maker Ambassador program, an initiative designed to engage women and minority engineers interested in making and leading.
2/4/2020
For a healthy person, a minor cut on the leg or foot is no big deal, something that only requires a bit of antiseptic and a small bandage. For a person with diabetes, it can become a much bigger problem.
2/4/2020
Harrisburg Young Professionals and local news publication TheBurg named a student in Penn State College of Medicine's M.D./Ph.D. Medical Scientist Training Program as part of their "20 in their 20s" list for 2019.
2/3/2020
Aida Ebrahimi, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, has been named a 2020 Scialog Fellow.
2/3/2020
The Penn State Facilities Engineering Institute (PSFEI) energy team has been recognized by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf for its work in procuring third-party energy supply for the Department of General Services (DGS).
2/3/2020
Hilal Ezgi Toraman, assistant professor of energy engineering and chemical engineering at Penn State, has been named the Virginia S. and Philip L. Walker Jr. Faculty Fellow in Materials Science and Engineering and Fuel Science Program.
2/3/2020
Enrique Del Castillo, distinguished professor of industrial engineering and professor of statistics at Penn State, has returned from his Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, where he conducted research at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal.
2/3/2020
The master of science in mechanical engineering (MSME) program offered online by the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering and Penn State World Campus has been ranked no. 2 by U.S. News & World Report for 2020.
2/3/2020
Caitlin Grady, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State, will examine the influences and interconnections between food, energy and water (FEW) systems thanks to a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
1/30/2020
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has appointed Christine Cunningham, professor of practice in education and engineering at Penn State, along with two others to three-year terms on the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the only continuing, nationally representative evaluation of U.S. students’ knowledge.
1/30/2020
Flow rates and time of year must be taken into account to better understand the potential risks posed by emerging organic contaminants in rivers and streams, according to Penn State researchers who studied contaminant concentrations and flow characteristics at six locations near drinking water intakes in the Susquehanna River basin.
1/30/2020
Rebecca Napolitano, a researcher who specializes in monitoring, diagnostics and adaptive reuse of existing buildings, will join the Penn State Department of Architectural Engineering (AE) as assistant professor on July 1.
1/30/2020
Researchers at Penn State are looking at innovative ways to improve energy storage in an effort to better utilize renewable energy technologies.
1/29/2020
The University Fellowships Office and University Libraries are continuing their series of events focused on helping undergraduates learn about and navigate the world of research opportunities at Penn State.
1/28/2020
In the year since she graduated with her doctorate in mechanical engineering, Penn State alumna Birgitt Boschitsch's life has been a nonstop whirlwind as the co-founder and chief executive officer of the startup spotLESS Materials.
1/27/2020
Paula Garcia Todd, global strategic marketing manager of drug delivery technologies with DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences, earned her bachelor of science and master of science degrees in chemical engineering at Penn State in 2003.
1/27/2020
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, received an inaugural Institute of International Education’s (IEE) Global Research Fellowship. The fellowships are jointly awarded by the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) in Brazil and the IEE to five faculty members from universities across the Unites States and Canada.
1/27/2020
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has announced a proposal to provide $2.35 million in funding for Invent Penn State as part of a $12.35 million spending initiative focused on technology and innovation programs.
1/27/2020
Penn State fans travel far and wide to attend the University’s football games each fall semester, but few get to see the behind-the-scenes coordination that it takes to get the players ready for game day.
1/27/2020
Three undergraduate students studying civil engineering at Penn State have been honored with the top prize for their work in the Inaugural Northeast Regional Council Mix Competition, sponsored by the Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA).
1/24/2020
Micro-credentials are on the rise in the higher education market, and architectural engineering students are some of the first to take part.
1/24/2020
The Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering is newly named, once more independent and under new leadership.
1/23/2020
The National Science Foundation recently awarded Anne Martin, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, a $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to study how both healthy and post-stroke individuals walk.
1/23/2020
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has named George Lesieutre, associate dean for research and graduate programs and professor of aerospace engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, the recipient of the 2020 SPIE Smart Structures and Materials (SSM) Lifetime Achievement Award.
1/22/2020
Students in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) at Penn State will learn how wireless sensors and cloud computing can impact the manufacturing field, thanks to a recent gift from KCF Technologies.
1/21/2020
Madison Evans is a Penn State biomedical engineering major who would like to become a neurosurgeon.
1/21/2020
Morgan Roggenbaum, a junior studying biological engineering, is the recipient of the prestigious Genentech Pharmaceutical Technical Development Outstanding Student Award for 2020.
1/21/2020
Zoubeida Ounaies, professor and associate head for administration in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct fundamental research into a new class of soft responsive materials, in collaboration with the University of Illinois.
1/21/2020
Before their selection as University Innovation Fellows, Penn State students Hayden Long and Michael Miller knew they had a passion for entrepreneurship.
1/20/2020
Deb Kelly, professor of biomedical engineering and director of Penn State's new Center for Structural Oncology, and her research team have made groundbreaking discoveries regarding the gene mutations that cause cancer.
1/20/2020
Use of an AC rather than a DC electric field can improve the piezoelectric response of a crystal. Now, an international team of researchers say that cycles of AC fields also make the internal crystal domains in some materials bigger and the crystal transparent.
1/17/2020
Windows accentuate and beautify commercial or residential buildings, according to Julian Wang, associate professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, but they also?are vulnerable to the elements.
1/17/2020
The Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program (PennTAP) at Penn State is looking for undergraduate entrepreneurs from any Penn State campus to compete in the 2020 Inc.U Competition.
1/17/2020
Researchers in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology are advancing work that utilizes machine learning methods to improve traffic signal control at urban intersections around the world.
1/16/2020
A novel method to prevent light from reflecting back in optical devices could allow advancements in several scientific fields, including optical communications, laser systems and electronics, according to a team of Penn State electrical engineers led by Xingjie Ni, assistant professor of electrical engineering.
1/16/2020
As communities look to restore their waterways after centuries of human alteration, many are turning to nature for inspiration.
1/15/2020
A highly sensitive, wearable gas sensor for environmental and human health monitoring may soon become commercially available, according to researchers at Penn State and Northeastern University.
1/15/2020
Robert Melton, professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, has been selected to receive the American Astronautical Society’s 2019 Dirk Brouwer Award for his substantial contributions to space flight mechanics and astrodynamics.
1/15/2020
Shawn Siroka, a doctoral student in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering, is using his talents to innovate new heat flux sensors in gas turbine engines. In the Steady Thermal Aero Research Turbine (START) Laboratory, he is one of many researchers focused on advancing turbine energy production by understanding how they mitigate and handle extreme temperatures.
1/15/2020
The Penn State University Fellowships Office announced the names of the four undergraduate students that are the University's nominees to the 2020 Goldwater Scholarship, an award for U.S. undergraduates interested in pursuing careers in research.
1/15/2020
Zoubeida Ounaies, professor of mechanical engineering and associate department head for administration in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
1/14/2020
By day, Tim Ayres is an employee at Lockheed Martin working on airplanes, fluid systems and hydraulic parts. By evening, Ayres is a 3D printing entrepreneur and a Penn State World Campus graduate student.
1/14/2020
Penn State received six top-10 rankings in U.S. News and World Report's 2020 Best Online Programs, the most of any college or university in the country for the fourth consecutive year.
1/13/2020
Ted Lynch, architectural engineering alumnus and CEO of Southland Industries, and his wife, Sarah, recently contributed $100,000 to enhance Penn State Department of Architectural Engineering (AE) facilities.
1/13/2020
The A. J. Ferraro Graduate Research Award in the Department of Electrical Engineering will become an endowed award, thanks to a gift from Carol M. Ferraro in honor of her late husband, Anthony J. Ferraro, an alumnus and professor emeritus at Penn State.
1/13/2020
The 2020 Summer Founders program provides selected Penn State entrepreneurial teams (founders) $15,000 to work full time on their startup, social good or nonprofit idea. Working over the summer, the program provides workspace and a plethora of resources and support.
1/10/2020
Electrical engineer Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, an expert on power grids, heads a Penn State team that won a $999,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore ways to prevent and deal with the "cascading failures" that lead to massive blackouts.
1/9/2020
Lithium ion batteries often grow needle-like structures between electrodes that can short out the batteries and sometimes cause fires. Now, an international team of researchers has found a way to grow and observe these structures to understand ways to stop or prevent their appearance.
1/9/2020
Matthew Aronson, a senior majoring in biomedical engineering at Penn State, spent the summer of 2019 in Germany as a scholar in the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) program.
1/8/2020
On Dec. 11 during the ME 340: Mechanical Engineering Design Methodology final exam, there were no blue books or pencils in sight. The quiet and concentration typical of an intensive exam was nowhere to be found.
1/7/2020
Seven Penn State College of Engineering faculty members were awarded the College of Engineering’s 2020 Research Opportunities for mid-Career Knowledge EnhancemenT (ROCKET) Seed Grant to fund exploration of new or existing research areas.
1/7/2020
A team of Penn State engineering faculty and students is working with small-to-medium-sized foundries across Pennsylvania to aid in the transition away from using harmful silica sands in the metal casting process and to reduce costs through 3D printing.
1/6/2020
Idea submissions are now being accepted for the 2020 Nittany AI Challenge. Student teams with a wide variety of skill sets are invited to submit their ideas for using artificial intelligence to improve the world by providing solutions for problems within the areas of education, health, sustainability, climate change and humanitarian challenges.
1/6/2020
John Messner, Charles and Elinor Matts Professor of Architectural Engineering at Penn State, is leading a $240,000 Construction Industry Institute (CII)-funded project to study building projects that have utilized digital modeling and to compile recommended best practices for organizing, retrieving and analyzing project data.
1/6/2020
The Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) recently named Ilgin Guler, assistant professor of civil engineering at Penn State, as the recipient of its 2020 Cambridge Systematics New Faculty Award.
1/6/2020
Cody A. Gonzalez, a doctoral student studying mechanical engineering at Penn State, has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Minority Graduate Scholarship.
1/6/2020
Ted Graef has joined the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs (SEDTAPP) as the director of the Engineering Entrepreneurship (E-SHIP) program at Penn State.
