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5/25/2023
Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, James L. Henderson Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, has been selected to attend the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting and the Baden-Württemberg Post Conference Programme 2023.
5/23/2023
The winners from Penn State Learning Factory’s in-person and virtual end-of-semester showcase have been named. The showcase is for senior engineering students to present their capstone design projects.
5/18/2023
A Penn State-led team of researchers examined the link between fossil fuel reduction and air quality by exploring almost 30,000 simulated future scenarios. They found that some climate mitigation efforts could lead to harmful health impacts in certain geographic areas.
5/17/2023
Penn State Professors Madhavan Swaminathan and Doug Werner were selected as 2023 fellows by the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.
5/17/2023
A new program, known as the Patent Agent Career Pathway, is launching this summer to expose Penn State STEM majors to a nontraditional career path in patent practice. The program is for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students seeking to learn about patent law and explore the possibility of taking the patent bar exam, which does not require a law degree, to become a patent agent.
5/17/2023
Penn State researchers will join a University of Florida-led consortium of 16 universities to research areas related to nuclear forensics, an integral component of nuclear security within the United States.
5/16/2023
Jean Paul Allain, head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State, has been appointed to a two-year term as associate director for fusion energy sciences (FES) within the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science.
5/16/2023
A Penn State-led team of researchers has literally put pencil to paper to create an accessible, affordable, waterproof and wearable sensor to monitor multiple vital signals.
5/16/2023
Wei Peng, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of international affairs, was featured in a Tech Times article about the equity implications of electric vehicles.
5/15/2023
Funded with a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the new AI Institute for Societal Decision Making will improve the response to societal challenges such as disaster management and public health by creating human-centric AI tools to assist with critical decisions. Christopher Dancy, the Harold and Inge Marcus Industrial and Manufacturing Career Development Associate Professor in the Penn State College of Engineering, will lead one of the research thrusts of the institute.
5/12/2023
A group of Penn State computer science graduate students received international attention in March when they were declared world finalists at the Microsoft Imagine Cup, where students across the globe compete to create software applications to solve technical challenges.
5/12/2023
Scout Bucks, fourth-year undergraduate student studying nuclear engineering and mechanical engineering, received a $10,000 scholarship through the Department of Energy University Nuclear Leadership Program.
5/10/2023
The Penn State Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction recently hosted its fourth annual conference in the HUB-Robeson Center at the University Park campus.
5/10/2023
Penn State nuclear engineering students took home four best presentation and poster awards from the American Nuclear Society Student Conference at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in April.
5/8/2023
Penn State civil engineering students placed first overall for the 2023 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Mid-Atlantic West Symposium, with multiple Penn State teams placing in several categories.
5/4/2023
Architectural engineering alumnus Phil Clark and his company, Claris Design+Build, are establishing the Claris Construction Early Career Professorship in Architectural Engineering at Penn State.
5/4/2023
The University and the Penn State College of Engineering community are mourning the loss of industrial engineering alumnus and benefactor Peter R. Dal Pezzo, who died on March 28 in La Jolla, California.
5/4/2023
Tonya Peeples, senior associate dean and professor of chemical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, has been appointed as the interim Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering, effective July 1. Peeples will succeed Anthony Atchley in the role, following his retirement at the end of June.
5/3/2023
The CoLab, an upper-level architecture, architectural engineering and landscape architecture studio course, combines six disciplines in one studio experience where students learn from industry professionals.
5/3/2023
Penn State researchers recently participated in Social Science Advocacy Day, held in Washington, D.C., by the Consortium of Social Science Associations.
5/2/2023
Nineteen interdisciplinary research teams received funding through the Institutes of Energy and the Environment’s (IEE) Seed Grant Program for 2023. This includes more than 75 researchers who are affiliated with 10 colleges and research units across seven Penn State campuses.
5/2/2023
A new master agreement with ENOWA, a company tasked with pioneering sustainable energy and water innovations, will support Penn State research efforts in sustainable water solutions.
5/1/2023
In 2015, the United Nations member states adopted a series of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to address global challenges, such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. A new program in the Penn State College of Engineering seeks to highlight the SDGs by offering digital micro-credential badges to students who complete related coursework and extracurricular activities.
4/28/2023
The Administrative Fellows Program offers Penn State faculty and staff the opportunity to work with senior University officers to gain knowledge and experiences pertaining to leadership in the academic community. Scarlett Miller, professor of engineering design, of industrial engineering and of mechanical engineering, was named one of three Fellows for the 2023-24 year.
4/27/2023
Greg Pavlak, assistant professor of architectural engineering in Penn State’s College of Engineering (AE), was named the first recipient of the Gifford H. Albright Career Development Professorship in Architectural Engineering, established in honor of the first head of the AE department.
4/27/2023
Howard Salis, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, of chemical engineering, and of biomedical engineering, offered perspective on a University of California study focused on cellular aging.
4/26/2023
Penn State Berks students Lillie Mohn, a mechanical engineering major, and Jenicy Strong, a computer engineering major, took first place in the fourth Women in Engineering Design Competition at Penn State Altoona.
4/25/2023
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2023 commencement ceremony. One student is selected to represent each of the 14 majors associated with the college and the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program.
4/23/2023
Justin Schwartz has been named Penn State’s permanent executive vice president and provost, effective May 1.
4/20/2023
Melik Demirel, Lloyd and Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in Biomimetic Materials, professor of engineering science and mechanics and director of the Center for Research on Advanced Fiber Technologies, wrote an article that appeared on Forbes.
4/18/2023
Inspired by complex ecosystems, Penn State researchers developed an algorithm to study the benefits of complexity in city supply chains.
4/18/2023
The first rapid test for mpox, more commonly known as monkeypox, has been developed by a team of researchers led by Penn State.
4/18/2023
A team led by a Penn State researcher has developed a medical sensor that can transform from rigid to soft to accommodate changing structural needs and can heal its own normal wear and tear.
4/14/2023
Cunjiang Yu, the Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, was selected by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Applied Mechanics Division to receive the 2023 Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.
4/14/2023
Penn State hosted a Clark Scholars gathering for the Northeast region in March. The Clark Scholars are undergraduate engineering students from universities across the Northeast who are part of the A. James Clark Scholars Program.
4/14/2023
Jean Paul Allain, department head and Huck Chair Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State, was named this year’s recipient of the Institutes of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s Fusion Technology Award, presented by the Fusion Technology Committee.
4/12/2023
Christine Kirchhoff, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and of law, policy and engineering at Penn State, will serve as a co-principal investigator on a $5.6 million grant to develop adaptation pathways for island communities vulnerable to rising sea-levels.
4/12/2023
For mere dollars, a Penn State-led international collaboration has fabricated a self-powered, standalone sensor system capable of monitoring gas molecules in the environment or in human breath. The system combines nanogenerators with micro-supercapacitors to harvest and story energy generated by human movement.
4/11/2023
Seven Penn State engineering graduate students earned first-, second- or third-place prizes at the 2023 Graduate Exhibition, held March 20-24 on the University Park campus and online.
4/11/2023
Gary L. Gray, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, is a recipient of the 2023 Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching.
4/11/2023
A Penn State-led team of researchers investigated how three classes of one type of motor protein, known as kinesins, engage with another type of motor, dynein, during cargo transport. Their discoveries, published in eLife, can help scientists better understand the normal cargo transport process, and, in future work, inform how it is disrupted in the case of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s.
4/11/2023
Richard Mistrick, associate professor and chief curricular officer of architectural engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, has received the 2023 Graduate Faculty Teaching Award.
4/11/2023
Ryan Solnosky, associate teaching professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, is the recipient of the 2023 Teaching and Learning with Technology Impact Award.
4/11/2023
Christian Pester, Thomas K. Hepler Early Career Professor in Chemical Engineering, was nine Penn Staters recognized for going above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.
4/10/2023
An app that can help prevent allergy attacks when ordering meals from restaurants was the winning idea in the 2023 Bardusch Family IdeaMakers Challenge, held March 22 during Penn State Startup Week powered by PNC.
4/10/2023
A research lab at Penn State will equally share a three-year, $2.55 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to develop a framework for the design and production of soft, self-charging, bio-inspired power sources for applications in space.
4/10/2023
Structural engineering researchers complete hands-on research in Mayfield, Kentucky, surveying homes without roofs in the almost-immediate aftermath of a tornado.
4/7/2023
Madhura Patil, a fourth-year industrial engineering student and president of the Penn State Chapter of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, was among the 2022-23 Penn State Global Programs award recipients.
4/6/2023
Penn State’s Epsilon Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the student honors society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, was selected to receive the 2021-22 Outstanding Chapter Award.
4/6/2023
Joseph F. Horn, professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, was named a 2023 Vertical Flight Society Technical Fellow. Horn was one of nine individuals recognized by the society in 2023.
4/6/2023
Penn State has announced that 10 graduate students have been selected as recipients of the Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award. One of the recipients was Ankit Saxena, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering.
4/6/2023
A team co-led by the Penn State Student Space Programs Lab has been selected as one of 70 teams to participate in the 2023-24 Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project, co-sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation.
4/6/2023
Forty Penn State graduate students, seven of whom are students in the College of Engineering, were named recipients of Penn State’s annual graduate student awards, administered by the Graduate School in collaboration with several Penn State units.
4/6/2023
With 40 years of data from 580 U.S. rivers, Penn State researchers used a deep learning model to find out if sunlight, temperature or stream flow is the main driver of dissolved oxygen concentrations.
4/6/2023
Thirteen graduate students received the Alumni Association Dissertation Award, one of the most prestigious awards given to doctoral candidates at the University, including two from the College of Engineering.
3/31/2023
Penn State College of Engineering and Schreyer Honors College alumna Hallie Murray was among the honorees at the 2023 Scholar Alumni Awards ceremony. She was recognized on March 24 at a luncheon held at the Hintz Family Alumni Center.
3/30/2023
Two climate-related projects received seed grant funding through high-performance computing support and consultation. Chris Gorski, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Jonathan Boualavong, doctoral student in environmental engineering, were among the recipients.
3/30/2023
The U.S. Army has awarded a $179,489 grant to a multi-institute collaboration, led by Penn State and AnalySwift, to develop a tool to inform the required material properties of the morphing structure.
3/30/2023
A Penn State-led team has discovered a new physical mechanism explaining naturally occurring X-rays associated with lightning activity in the Earth’s atmosphere.
3/30/2023
Caleb Fronk, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student at Penn State, won first prize in the undergraduate poster competition at TMS 2023 in San Diego.
3/30/2023
The Penn State Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase for senior engineering students to present their capstone design projects with both in-person and virtual formats.??
3/29/2023
The? Penn State Microbiome Center, in coordination with the lab of David Koslicki, associate professor of computer science and engineering and of biology and a co-hire of the Huck Institute of the Life Sciences at Penn State, is offering access to the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes to all Penn State faculty, staff and students for free.
3/28/2023
A team of Penn State biomedical engineering researchers recently received a best paper runner-up award for their paper in IEEE Sensors Letters, one of 18 journals published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
3/28/2023
After a building failure due to natural disasters or poor structural design, safety inspectors must enter a structure to assess the damage before occupants can return. Researchers in the Penn State Department of Architectural Engineering studied how building inspectors make their safety assessments by analyzing their gaze patterns with eye-tracking software.
3/28/2023
The Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science’s summer camps are back for another year of in-person, hands-on learning! Both camps are geared toward girls but open to participants of all identities.
3/28/2023
Penn State experts and Pennsylvania industry leaders are invited to attend a workshop on April 19 to explore opportunities for bringing innovative artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions to the marketplace.
3/27/2023
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) inducted Penn State engineer Dipanjan Pan to its College of Fellows on March 27 in Washington, D.C.
3/27/2023
Veena Sreekantamurthy, an electrical engineering master’s student, spent the summer interning in NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation Internship Project (SIP). A journal published by NASA highlighted the contributions made by Sreekantamurthy and other SIP interns.
3/27/2023
The College of Engineering celebrated the construction of the new Engineering Design and Innovation Building at a ribbon-cutting ceremony held on Feb. 24. The Penn State Board of Trustees-approved project was supported predominantly by funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and philanthropy.
3/27/2023
Dipanjan Pan, Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine and professor of nuclear engineering and of materials science and engineering at Penn State, will serve as a co-investigator on a $46 DARPA consortium to develop artificial blood.
3/24/2023
Undergraduate students from the College of Engineering at Penn State were among the winners of the 2023 Invent Penn State Inc.U Competition.
3/24/2023
Measuring temperature and nitrogen levels in soil is important for agriculture systems but detecting them apart from one another is difficult to do. Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, led researchers in the development of a multi-parameter sensor that can effectively decouple temperature and nitrogen signals so that each can be measured accurately. The results were recently published by Advanced Materials.
3/24/2023
The Penn State School of Engineering Design and Innovation’s Engineering Entrepreneurship program will host the “Conference on Intrapreneurship : Employees as Changemakers” on May 11 in the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub in State College.
3/23/2023
A unique collaboration between a student from the Penn State Smeal College of Business and a student from the College of Engineering’s Engineering Leadership Development Program produced a successful result in the Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering Case Competition.
3/22/2023
Sydney Gibbard, a fourth-year student majoring in biomedical engineering at Penn State, was awarded this year’s Eric A. Walker Award by the University.
3/22/2023
Sydney Gibbard, a senior majoring in biomedical engineering in the College of Engineering, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Eric A. Walker Award.
3/22/2023
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers published an article highlighting the importance of leadership skills for engineering students. The article mentions the skill building resources available to Penn State students through the department of mechanical engineering.
3/22/2023
Penn State World Campus highlighting online engineering degrees as part of the celebration of its 25th anniversary
3/21/2023
Christos Argyropoulos, Penn State associate professor of electrical engineering and associate research professor in the Applied Research Laboratory, is the recipient of the 2023 European Association on Antennas and Propagation Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics.
3/21/2023
The Penn State student chapter of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) won the bid to host the 2024 ANS student conference at University Park. The conference is scheduled for April 4-6 of next year and will have the theme of “Keystone of Tomorrow.”
3/20/2023
A Penn State team placed second in the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)-Society for Health Systems FlexSim Student Simulation Competition.
3/17/2023
Houtan Jebelli, assistant professor of architectural engineering, will use a three-year, $600,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop a virtual-reality based training environment for working with construction robots.
3/16/2023
A trio of Penn State researchers were selected for the National Science Foundation’s National I-Corps Program to offer a foundry service for manufacturing sensors and integrated circuits made of two-dimensional materials for use in a variety of industries, including Internet of Things applications, food processing, pharmaceutical and various defense needs.
3/16/2023
Hannah Luben, who graduated from Penn State with a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering in 2021, had her senior capstone project featured in a story by Lab Midwest, an education consulting company.
3/15/2023
Pratt & Whitney, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Lab (DOE-NETL) and Penn State have joined together in a project involves a $26 million commitment to support the Steady Thermal Aero Research Turbine Lab in both expanding the existing capabilities, as well as adding a new, two-stage turbine rig referred to as START+ at University Park.
3/15/2023
A $26 million commitment from Pratt & Whitney, the Federal Aviation Administration the DOE-NETL and Penn State will support the expansion of the START Lab and the creation of START+. START Lab Director and Penn State Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering Karen Thole answered a few questions about gas turbine technologies, the START Lab and the upcoming expansion.
3/15/2023
Jacques Rivière, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics and of acoustics, received a five-year, $750,000 Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance the use of ultrasound sensors to image lab-based earthquakes and better understand the precursory events that lead to them.
3/13/2023
Lauren McPhillips, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of agricultural and biological engineering, is engineering impact through green stormwater infrastructure to manage severe urban flooding and pollution.
3/10/2023
Sri-Rajasekhar "Raj" Kothapalli, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, earned a five year, $528,667 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Smart and scalable approaches for developing multimodal optical and acoustic imaging technologies.”
3/10/2023
Jessica Beyer, a graduate student of aerospace engineering at Penn State, is the overall winner of the Vertical Flight Society’s (VFS) Robert L. Lichten Award. She will be recognized at the Grand Awards Breakfast during the society’s 79th Annual Forum & Technology Display in West Palm Beach, Fla. on May 18.
3/10/2023
Jacqueline O'Connor, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Gas Turbine Research, Education, and Outreach at Penn State, is a recipient of The Combustion Institute’s 2023 Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award.
3/10/2023
The Penn State College of Engineering’s Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education held its biannual speaking contest on Feb. 7, showcasing students’ skills in translating technical knowledge into engaging presentations.
3/10/2023
Research led by Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Penn State, to develop the first ultrathin, compact metalens telescope was featured by Interesting Engineering.
3/10/2023
Nina Lauharatanahirum, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and of biobehavioral health, was selected as a faculty fellow by the Social Science Research Institute.
3/8/2023
Eleven Penn State engineering graduates have been selected to receive the College of Engineering’s Outstanding Engineering Alumni Awards. The ceremony will take place on March 13 at The Penn Stater.
3/8/2023
With a four-year, $2,276,850 National Institutes of Health grant, Penn State researchers aim to create a completely non-invasive, tunable method for treating tendinopathies with focused ultrasound.
3/8/2023
The European Commission published an article sharing the results of a study to which Alfonso Mejia, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, contributed.
3/8/2023
Research papers authored by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, were recently featured on two journal covers.
3/7/2023
Alumni and students of Penn State’s graduate engineering programs shared insights into why they wanted to pursue an advanced degree.
3/7/2023
Two Penn State Berks LaunchBox co-working companies are celebrating major milestones for their startups this week.
3/6/2023
Researchers from Penn State and the University of Texas at Austin have received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation's LEAP-HI program to tackle the challenge of designing and 3D printing smart devices using multiple materials.
3/6/2023
The average person does not spend their time imagining a nuclear device going off in an American city, because it meets the very definition of “unthinkable.” But the Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Matter University Research Alliance, led by Penn State, focuses on just that.
3/6/2023
Renee Frohnert, Penn State electrical engineering alumna, was an invited speaker at the TEDxPSU annual conference on Feb. 12 in Schwab Auditorium.
3/6/2023
Five faculty members in Penn State’s College of Engineering were recognized with National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. Each project ranges in duration from three and a half to five years, funded by grants worth roughly $500,000.
3/6/2023
Four Penn State graduate students received best paper awards at recent meetings of the Acoustical Society of America.
3/3/2023
Aida Ebrahimi, Thomas and Sheila Roell Early Career Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $500,000 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Tunable Graphene Microdevices for Multiplexed Detection of Biomolecules Beyond Diffusion Limit.”
3/3/2023
Christopher Dancy, Harold and Inge Marcus Industrial and Manufacturing Career Development Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and of Computer Science and Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $581,257 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “SocioCulturally Competent Agents to Study and Improve Human-AI Interaction.”?
3/3/2023
Linxiao Zhu, John J. and Jean M. Brennan Clean Energy Early Career Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, earned a five year, $556,384 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Probing and Understanding Nonreciprocal and Topological Radiative Heat Transport in Many-body Magnetized Systems.”
3/3/2023
Syed Rafiul Hussain, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, earned a five-year, $557,183 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Principled approaches to securing next-generation cellular networks.”
3/3/2023
Penn State College of Engineering researchers have used a strategic design approach called the topology optimization method to design metasurfaces that control surface waves.
3/3/2023
A team that includes Penn State researchers examined the impact of human presence on indoor air quality and found that human skin oil can react with indoor ozone to produce hydroxyl radicals, which, in turn, react with other molecules to produce sometimes hazardous byproducts.
3/3/2023
With a five-year, $2.3 million Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, researchers from Penn State and the University of Oregon are collaborating to better understand how both rotator cuff injury and surgical repair affect the muscle’s composition.
3/2/2023
“I Engineer” highlights excellence across the Penn State College of Engineering, as well as how the college is made stronger by the diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds of those in the engineering community. Featured here is Eden Binega, doctoral student in the Penn State Department of Architectural Engineering.
3/2/2023
Astronomers and amateurs alike know the bigger the telescope, the more powerful the imaging capability. To keep the power but streamline one of the bulkier components, a Penn State-led research team created the first ultrathin, compact metalens telescope capable of imaging far-away objects, including the moon.
3/1/2023
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and of biomedical engineering at Penn State, was invited to participate in the 2023 National Academy of Engineering Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering (JAFOE) symposium.
3/1/2023
The Social Science Research Institute’s Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction will host its fourth annual conference, “Evidence to Impact,” in-person and via Zoom on from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Monday, May 1 in the HUB-Robeson Center at the University Park campus.
3/1/2023
Julianna Simon, assistant professor of acoustics and of biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, has been awarded the R. Bruce Lindsay Award by the Acoustical Society of America.
3/1/2023
The tumor suppressor protein p53, known as the guardian of the genome, protects the body’s DNA from daily stress or long-term damage by triggering the cells to make repairs or to self-destruct. For the first time, a Penn State-led team of researchers uncovered the complete structure of the p53 protein using patient samples. They also investigated how mutation-induced changes in the p53 structure can impact different cancers.
3/1/2023
Sadan Kulturel-Konak, who holds an affiliate faculty position in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, collaborated to reimagine health care facilities in the face of pandemics and other mass casualty situations.
2/28/2023
Penn State Global sponsored two Penn State professors, Anne Hoag, associate professor in the Department of Telecommunications and director of the Center for Penn State Student Entrepreneurship, and Esther Obonyo, associate professor of engineering design and of architectural engineering and director of the Global Building Network, to attend the December 2022?Blue and Green Technology Conference?in Auckland, New Zealand.
2/27/2023
The Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Materials Systems was recently featured in a video story on the Penn State’s 'One Community Impacting Many' website.
2/27/2023
Kyle Dalton, a doctoral student of acoustics at Penn State, was selected as a winner in the Acoustical Society of America’s Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA) student paper competition last May. Dalton proposed a new image algorithm to help find unexploded ordnances (UXOs) under water and sediment.
2/27/2023
The Centre Daily Times highlighted the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Engineering Design and Innovation building, set to fully open in fall 2023.
2/27/2023
The NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Research Internship Program offers early research opportunities to women and other underrepresented individuals in STEM.
2/24/2023
The Daily Collegian highlighted the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Engineering Design and Innovation building in a story quoting ceremony remarks.
2/22/2023
A multi-institutional research team, co-led by Penn State, identified a new mechanism of corrosion that could have implications for safe power plant and nuclear reactor designs.
2/22/2023
A biosensor that could measure sweat vapor, developed by James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, was featured in a paper published in ACS Nano.
2/21/2023
The Science Olympiad Alumni at Penn State (SOAPS) club hosted its third annual Science Olympiad invitational at Penn State on Jan. 14.
2/16/2023
The Board of Trustees Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning advanced a proposed name change to 2137 Research Drive in State College to the Lidia Manson Building, in honor of the first woman to receive a master’s degree in engineering from Penn State.
2/16/2023
Three College of Engineering faculty received awards from the 2023 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP).
2/15/2023
Penn State's Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs has named seven distinguished professors for 2023. Pingjuan Werner, distinguished professor of engineering at Penn State DuBois, was honored with the title.
2/15/2023
Penn State has been ranked first in the nation in faculty Fulbright Scholar awards by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since the 2015-16 awards cycle, five faculty with College of Engineering affiliations have been awarded Fulbrights.
2/14/2023
Seventeen new faculty members have joined the Penn State College of Engineering since early fall 2022. The 12 tenured or tenure-line faculty and six professional track faculty represent 11 units and departments and include one new department head.
2/14/2023
Researchers from Penn State recently have found that just the pupil diameter of a mouse's eye can determine the mouse's arousal state with high accuracy, which is important for interpreting research results.
2/13/2023
Reconfigurable antennas are integral to future communication network systems, like 6G, but many current designs fall short. Penn State electrical engineering researchers combined electromagnets with a compliant mechanism to create a proof-of-concept reconfigurable compliant mechanism-enabled patch antenna that addresses current industry limitations.
2/9/2023
Both Penn State and Jean Paul Allain, Huck Chair Professor and head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist, were featured in an article from Yahoo that discussed micro nuclear reactors and universities around the United States that are experimenting with them.
2/9/2023
Bound for the landfill, agricultural waste contains carbon sources that can be used to produce high-value compounds, such as p-coumaric acid, which is used in manufacturing pharmaceuticals. A Penn State-led research team has invented a new class of ion-exchange membrane wafer assemblies that significantly improves electrodeionizaton’s ability to capture p-coumaric acid from liquid mixtures while using less energy and saving money.
2/8/2023
Six new Penn State faculty members have joined the Institutes of Energy and the Environment, including Roberto Fernández in the College of Engineering.
2/7/2023
The journal Biosensors recently selected Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, as editor in chief of the section Biosensors Materials.
2/6/2023
Two Penn State mechanical engineers will use a $320,000 grant to develop equipment that enables them to study animal locomotion controls in nature and potentially engineer bio-inspired robots.
2/6/2023
Tamy Guimarães, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State, was named a 2022 recipient of the Embassy of Brazil’s Science and Technology Prize.
2/3/2023
Research led by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, was featured in a New York Post article.
2/2/2023
The latest episode of the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment Growing Impact podcast features Jacqueline O’Connor, associate professor of mechanical engineering, who discussed her project investigating hydrochars, a proposed replacement for coal.
2/2/2023
A new sensor developed by researchers at Penn State could help workers in daycares, hospitals and other settings provide more immediate care to their charges when diaper changes are needed. The sensors can also monitor for respiration and perspiration, among other applications.
2/1/2023
Technology company Intel awarded Penn State $50,000 to develop a three-credit college course on programming quantum computers. Swaroop Ghosh, Penn State associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will serve as principal investigator.
1/31/2023
Javari Cherry, a second-year Penn State Abington aerospace engineering major, is laying the groundwork for the future by capitalizing on opportunities open to undergraduates in his field. Last summer, Cherry worked as a research assistant in a lab led by Jean Paul Allain, the Huck Chair Professor and head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering.
1/30/2023
Justin Pritchard, Penn State Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Entrepreneurial Assistant Professor and assistant professor of biomedical engineering, recently received the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator award from the Biomedical Engineering Society.
1/30/2023
Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, has been selected as a 2023 Emerging Investigator of Nanoscale.
1/30/2023
Rongming Chu, associate professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was awarded a $191,650 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense. The grant, part of the $59 million Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), will be used to equip Chu’s power semiconductor device characterization lab.
1/27/2023
College of Engineering alumnus Tyler Tracy used a Penn State Summer Founders grant to co-found a barber wear startup called SLCKR.
1/27/2023
In the not-so-distant future, doctors could use machines that directly repair tissues by depositing new layers of muscle or skin or create and install new organs. Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, professor of engineering science and mechanics, biomedical engineering and neurosurgery, is using 3D bioprinting to create a range of materials for potential use in human health, including printable bone, skin and tumor cell models.
1/24/2023
William Burgos, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State, has been selected for induction as a member of the Academy of Distinguished Alumni for the Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech.
1/24/2023
Ram Narayanan, professor of electrical engineering in Penn State’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was named one of 11 recipients of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras’s (IIT Madras) 2023 Distinguished Alumnus Award.
1/23/2023
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, the Penn State College of Engineering’s associate dean for innovation and the A. Robert Noll Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, was honored with the distinguished service award by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Design Automation.
1/23/2023
Karen Thole, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, received an award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and was appointed to serve on the Department of Air Force Scientific Advisory Board for her expertise.
1/22/2023
Kostas Papakonstantinou, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was consulted in an article reflecting on the collapse of Fern Hollow Bridge nearly a year after its collapse.
1/20/2023
Laura Y. Cabrera, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics and of philosophy and the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neuroethics at Penn State, recently shared her neuroethics expertise in both an iScience conversation and at the National Academy of Engineering 2022 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering symposium.
1/20/2023
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the Penn State College of Engineering, developed a prototype of a microneedle patch to immediately stop bleeding after an injury. It will be featured on the cover of the May issue of Bioactive Materials.
1/20/2023
A newly developed pop-up electrode device could gather more in-depth information about individual neurons and their interactions with each other while limiting the potential for brain tissue damage.
1/19/2023
Penn State researchers recently enhanced their gas sensor manufacturing process through an in-situ laser-assisted manufacturing approach, improving on their previous method of drop casting.
1/19/2023
A neuroimaging study by Nanyin Zhang, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Brain Imaging, was recently featured by PsyPost. The study identified a link between respiration and neural activity changes in rats, suggesting that breathing might modulate neural responses across the brain.
1/19/2023
Research led by Houtan Jebelli, Penn State assistant professor of architectural engineering, to improve construction worker safety on job sites was featured in an EHS Today article.
1/18/2023
James Coder and Jose Palacios, both Penn State associate professors of aerospace engineering, were selected to serve as 2023 Associate Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
1/18/2023
James Freihaut has been named interim head of the Penn State Department of Architectural Engineering, effective Jan. 1.
1/17/2023
Nikki Crowley, assistant professor of biology who is affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Neurobiology and Neural Engineering by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
1/17/2023
Thomas Wood, professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, was featured in a Scientific American article that discussed methane emissions and how current technologies to remove the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere are new and untested.
1/13/2023
With a four-year, $1,800,000 National Science Foundation grant, Houtan Jebelli, assistant professor of architectural engineering, is leading a research team to develop an artificial intelligence-enabled, real-time and context-aware holistic health monitoring approach for construction workers.
1/13/2023
In October, Amrita Basak, Penn State assistant professor of mechanical engineering, spoke at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Army Logistics Roundtable on additive manufacturing in resource-limited environments.
1/12/2023
High school students are competing in a Science Olympiad invitational hosted by Penn State students and sponsored by the School of Engineering Design and Innovation on the University Park campus on January 14.
1/11/2023
Christine J. Kirchhoff, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and associate director of the Penn State law, policy, and engineering (LPE) initiative, was awarded seed funding from the Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.
1/11/2023
A team of Penn State chemical engineering researchers studied the mechanisms of drying hairy cellulose nanocrystals and proposed nanotechnology to render the them highly redispersible in aqueous mediums.
1/10/2023
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Allison Beese, associate professor of materials science and engineering and of mechanical engineering, will serve as co-director of the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition, effective Jan 1.
1/10/2023
Penn State is partnering with nine other universities to establish the Processing with Intelligent Storage and Memory center, led by the University of California San Diego.
1/9/2023
Seong Kim, distinguished professor of chemical engineering and associate head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Penn State proposed that a super-lubricity switch to control friction may be found in humidity.
1/6/2023
The Penn State Materials Research Institute held their annual Materials Day in October, with the theme "Materials Impacting Society." Several engineering faculty participated.
1/6/2023
Forbes highlighted Penn State’s newly created $32.7 million Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES) in an article discussing universities across the country that have created microelectronic research centers as part of the Joint University Microelectronics Program (JUMP 2.0) initiative.
1/5/2023
Heparin has long been used as a blood thinner, or anticoagulant, for patients with blood clotting disorders or after surgery to prevent complications. But the medication remains difficult to dose correctly, leading to overdosing or underdosing. A team of Penn State researchers combined heparin with a protein fragment, peptide, to slow down the release of the drug and convey the medication directly to the site of a clot.
1/5/2023
The Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0, a consortium of industrial partners in cooperation with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has announced the creation of a $32.7 million, Penn State-led Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES).
1/4/2023
A project led by Ming Xiao, Penn State professor of civil and environmental engineering, was highlighted in an article by the Alaska Beacon. The project monitors the behavior of thawing permafrost in Alaska in order to predict future soil conditions and inform infrastructure planning.
1/4/2023
A Penn State-led research team received the 2023 Cooperative Research Award from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering for their scientific advancements in water treatment membranes and polymer thin films.
12/30/2022
Research led by Bo Cheng, Kenneth K. and Olivia J. Kuo Early Career Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Penn State, in aerial drone design was recently featured in an article by Popular Science.
12/22/2022
Yu-Hsin Chen, doctoral student of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Penn State, won a presentation award at the 44th annual Society of Medical Decision Making Conference held Oct. 23-26 in Seattle.
12/22/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering fundraised $46,291 from 254 gifts on GivingTuesday, which took place on Dec. 8. The funds will benefit students largely through scholarships, as well as supplement resources for materials and experiences.
12/21/2022
These are some of the photos that best capture the excitement and spirit of innovation across the College of Engineering in 2022.
12/21/2022
Electric vehicle battery research conducted by Chao-Yang Wang, the William E. Diefenderfer Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was named one of the top ten most significant scientific developments of the year by The Guardian.
12/20/2022
George Lesieutre, professor of aerospace engineering, and Daning Huang, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, are two of three authors of a new textbook on structural dynamics. The graduate-level book, Structural Dynamics: Theory and Applications to Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Volume 50 will be published in February by Cambridge University Press.
12/19/2022
An episode of "Life From All Angles," a YouTube series from the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, features Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Xiaojun "Lance" Lian and his efforts to produce new cardiomyocytes to advance the effectiveness of stem cell differentiation.
12/19/2022
Lissa Melis, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, took home two first-place awards at Penn State’s 15th Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium.
12/16/2022
Penn State researchers are looking for a safer and more efficient way to use machine learning in the real world. They developed and tested a new reinforcement learning algorithm aimed at improving energy consumption and occupant comfort in a high-rise office building.
12/16/2022
Jacqueline O’Connor, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, recently collaborated with colleagues to edit a book titled Renewable Fuels: Sources, Conversion, and Utilization. The editors aim to increase energy literacy and bridge the disconnect between those who make fuels and those who use them.
12/13/2022
Penn State’s Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems received a $300,000 International Research Experiences for Students grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a research exchange program with the University of Freiburg in Germany.
12/13/2022
Nathan Brown, assistant professor of architectural engineering, is among the Penn State researchers studying whether fungal biomaterials can replace synthetic acoustic insulation and potentially reduce construction waste.
12/13/2022
Ram Narayanan, professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, served as an expert panelist for a virtual discussion of the topic “What’s the next big question in artificial intelligence?”
12/12/2022
Research led by Greg Pavlak, assistant professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, was recently featured in the December 2022 newsletter from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.
12/12/2022
A new model by a team of researchers led by Penn State and inspired by Michael Crichton’s novel “Prey” describes how biological or technical systems form complex structures equipped with signal-processing capabilities that allow the systems to respond to stimulus and perform functional tasks without external guidance.
12/9/2022
A new type of active pixel sensor that uses a novel two-dimensional material may both enable ultra-sharp cellphone photos and create a new class of extremely energy-efficient Internet of Things sensors, according to a team of Penn State researchers.
12/9/2022
The popularity of wearable electronics has induced demand for their parts, including power sources such as triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). Penn State researchers combined a porous 2D material known as MXene and laser-induced graphene foam nanocomposite to form a material system that enables a TENG to be stretchy and perform on dynamic surfaces.
12/9/2022
Hummingbirds have extreme aerial agility and flight forms, which is why many aerial vehicles are designed to mimic hummingbird movement. Using a novel modeling method, researchers gained new insights into how hummingbirds produce wing movement, which could lead to design improvements in flying robots.
12/9/2022
The Materials Research Institute (MRI) is calling for proposals from Penn State researchers for two seed grant programs: Penn State-Taipei Tech Collaborative Seed Grant Program and Interdisciplinary Seed Grant Opportunities in Multiple Areas Across Partnerships in the Office for the Senior Vice President of Research (OSVPR).
12/9/2022
The winners from Penn State Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory’s in-person, end-of-semester showcase have been named. The showcase, which is also taking place virtually, is for senior engineering students to present their capstone design projects.
12/8/2022
Back in-person for the first time since 2019, the annual Transportation Engineering and Safety Conference (TESC) gives industry leaders a chance to connect and share knowledge and ideas.
12/8/2022
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named Justin Schwartz, Madhavan Swaminathan and Douglas Werner as fellows, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
12/7/2022
Eric Donnell will take over as associate dean of research for the College of Engineering at Penn State, effective Jan. 1.
12/7/2022
Led by Penn State, academia, national laboratories and industry have formed the Post-Industrial Midwest and Appalachia (PIMA) Nuclear Alliance to harness carbon-free energy while educating and training the future energy workforce. The alliance will host a workshop to continue establishing their team, conceptualizing their goals and developing their project plans at Penn State New Kensington’s Digital Foundry Dec. 8-9.
12/7/2022
Jacqueline O’Connor, director of the Center for Gas Turbine Research, Education, and Outreach and associate professor of mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, served on the editorial team for a recently published book, Renewable Fuels: Sources, Conversion, and Utilization.
12/7/2022
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, A. Robert Noll Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, will become the Penn State College of Engineering’s associate dean for innovation on Jan. 1.
12/7/2022
Xiaogang Hu, associate professor of mechanical engineering and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neurorehabilitation, will lead Penn State’s efforts in the newly funded Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center in Assisting Stroke Survivors with Engineering Technology.
12/2/2022
Syed Rafiul Hussain, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was awarded a four-year, $206,598 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a collaborator on a project to make data centers more sustainable.
12/2/2022
Yan Li, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, was awarded a three-year, $429,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop computational tools to address new challenges arising in the modeling and control of the modern power grid.
12/2/2022
Applications are now being accepted for a summer 2023 undergraduate research experience in the Penn State College of Engineering. Students from across the country can conduct next-generation propulsion and power research and work closely with leading academic experts through the new program.
12/1/2022
James Breakall, professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was named a fellow of the Radio Club of America, a society of wireless communications professionals founded in 1909.
12/1/2022
Penn State researchers have received a planning grant from the Civic Innovation Challenge to study ways to improve rural-urban commutes. The six-month, $50,000 civic-engaged research award is funded by the National Science Foundation in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Energy.
11/30/2022
Jing Du, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering, was selected for the Young Leaders Professional Development Award by the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).
11/30/2022
Penn State student Jeff Jackman earned his associate degree in air and space operations technology through the G.I. Bill. He continued his education at Penn State Berks and on Dec. 15 will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
11/30/2022
If you are reading this article on your computer or phone, it is in part thanks to diodes. Diodes are used for a variety of critical electronic functions and are typically rigid. Electronic devices, such as robotics or medical devices, are becoming more flexible as technology advances, so Penn State researchers have developed a fully rubbery stretchable diode that maintains performance.
11/29/2022
Penn State researchers used neutron radiography to reveal the first new information on a patch that may have come from Amelia Earhart's plane in 30 years. Now, they are using the same techniques to investigate microplastics.
11/29/2022
Penn State researchers developed a method to manufacture soft, elastic semiconductors and circuits more efficiently.
11/29/2022
A Penn State-led research collaboration developed a scalable model specifically to control large groups of buildings and their energy demand in realistic operational settings. They published their approach in the Journal of Energy Storage.
11/29/2022
The Penn State Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase for senior engineering students to present their capstone design projects with both in-person and virtual formats Dec. 6 - Dec. 16.
11/28/2022
To ensure fair and impartial distribution of the $1.07 billion that was awarded to Pennsylvania as part of 2021’s massive settlement with opioid manufacturers and distributors, a team of interdisciplinary researchers from Penn State worked with counties across the commonwealth to develop the formula by which funds are being distributed.
11/23/2022
Combining machine learning with multimodal electrochemical sensing can significantly improve the analytical performance of biosensors, according to new findings from a Penn State research team. These improvements may benefit non-invasive health monitoring, such as testing that involves saliva or sweat.
11/22/2022
A team of Penn State engineers has determined that both water discharge — or the volume of water flowing through a river or stream — and climate itself may have significant influence on dissolved inorganic carbon concentrations in rivers and streams.
11/21/2022
Bruce Logan, director of the Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Evan Pugh University Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, has been invited to speak to the Danish parliament about energy as Europe wrestles with energy costs and insecurity.
11/21/2022
Seven Penn State materials researchers have received the 2022 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award, including five in the College of Engineering.
11/21/2022
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, has been recognized with two professional society awards.
11/18/2022
Ruggero Rossi, assistant research professor in the Penn State Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has received two awards: the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology 2022 Innovation Award for best technological development, and the International Society for Electrochemisty-Elsevier Prize for Green Electrochemistry.
11/18/2022
Lixian Yan has been named the fall 2022 student marshal for the Penn State College of Engineering. She will receive her bachelor of science with a double major in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science within the College of Engineering and in physics (electronics option) from the Eberly College of Science.
11/18/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering community is mourning the sudden loss of Janna Maranas, professor of chemical engineering, who died on Nov. 3 at the age of 57.
11/18/2022
Fruit flies can quickly compensate for catastrophic wing injuries, researchers found, maintaining the same stability after losing up to 40% of a wing. This finding could inform the design of versatile robots, which face the similar challenge of having to quickly adapt to mishaps in the field.
11/18/2022
An IBM-led team that includes three Penn State faculty members was selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as one of 16 multidisciplinary teams for the Convergence Accelerator program 2022 cohort for the research topic “Track G: Securely Operating Through 5G Infrastructure.”
11/18/2022
Mechanical engineering doctoral student Xiaoyue Zhao was selected to participate in the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop, held Oct. 6-7 at Stanford University.
11/18/2022
Third-year electrical engineering undergraduate student Michael Artlip received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the eighth National Workshop for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Research in Network and Systems.
11/17/2022
A team of two students from the Penn State Department of Architectural Engineering won a $1,000 grant from the Illuminating Engineering Society. The accepted their award at the society’s annual conference held Aug. 3-5 in New Orleans.
11/17/2022
The Penn State Breazeale Reactor can now run five beam ports with seven neutron beam lines simultaneously.
11/16/2022
A $1 million gift from PJ Dick and Trumbull Corporation will name classroom 102 inside West 1, a new engineering facility set to open at University Park in spring 2024. The classroom, which is the largest in the building, will be named the George Mezey and Jeff Turconi Classroom.
11/15/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering’s School of Engineering Design and Innovation has updated its name, from the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, as part of its strategic plan. The name was approved on Nov. 14 and it will go into effect immediately.
11/15/2022
A Penn State-led multidisciplinary collaboration may have found a solution for antibiotic resistance in cholestyramine, an oral drug already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reduce cholesterol levels and remove bile acids associated with liver diseases.
11/14/2022
Penn State alumni David and JoEllen Sallack doubled down on their support of Penn State with a $250,000 gift to establish the David and JoEllen Sallack Engineering Ambassadors Program Fund in the College of Engineering. The Sallacks previously established the John A. and Fay Sallack Memorial Scholarship in 2019.
11/10/2022
Using functional MRI and electrophysiology, researchers in the Penn State College of Engineering identified a link between respiration and neural activity changes in the brain. This means taking a deep breath can actually impact one's emotional state — long acknowledged to be effective by mental health practitioners, but never before proven by science.
11/10/2022
Researchers from Penn State’s Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing and the College of Engineering have received a to study the effects of ambient lighting interventions in nursing homes. The collaborative project will focus on nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
11/10/2022
Michael Barringer, associate research professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, was named to the most recent class of fellows for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
11/10/2022
Nikki Crowley, assistant professor of biology and of biomedical engineering at Penn State, is the 2022 recipient of the Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP) Editor’s Early Career Award.
11/10/2022
For the ninth consecutive year, the Penn State Society of Women Engineers (SWE) received the Outstanding Collegiate Section Gold Mission Award at the SWE national conference (WE22).
11/8/2022
A Penn State-designed window screen system that automatically changes its shape based on indoor and outdoor environmental conditions is part of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal through Dec. 5.
11/8/2022
Thomas Oziemblowsky, a recently retired U.S. Air Force (USAF) lieutenant colonel, "engineers potential" as an academic adviser in the Engineering Advising Center.
11/4/2022
Currently, women and other underrepresented populations make up about 10% of the workforce in construction, but with automation and teleoperation increasing in construction, there may be new opportunities to make construction work more accessible across genders. Yuqing Hu, assistant professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, will lead a team to investigate these opportunities with a three-year, $559,757 National Science Foundation grant.
11/4/2022
Lauren Griggs is the director of the Penn State College of Engineering’s Multicultural Engineering Program, and she supports students as they navigate their undergraduate and graduate engineering studies.
11/3/2022
Yan Li, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, was awarded a three-year, $510,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to develop quantum computing algorithms to explore operational mechanisms of nonlinear power systems and computational resources needed for renewable energy applications.
11/2/2022
Penn State will hold its annual First-Generation Celebration on Nov. 8, celebrating Penn Staters, promoting campus resources and bringing awareness to the first-generation community at Penn State. Recent Penn State first-generation mechanical engineering graduate Mahima Kania reflects on her college experience.
11/2/2022
The “I Engineer” campaign highlights excellence across Penn State’s College of Engineering and how the college is made stronger by the diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds of those in the engineering community. Featured here is Martin de Jesus Nieto-Perez, associate teaching professor in the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering.
11/2/2022
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering, was featured in an article by SELF magazine that discussed ways to improve home ventilation to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other airborne contaminants and viruses.
11/2/2022
Yiqi Zhang, assistant professor of industrial engineering at Penn State, was awarded the Stephanie Binder Young Professional Award by the Surface Transportation Technical Group (STTG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).
11/1/2022
Penn State has selected the architectural firm KieranTimberlake from Philadelphia to lead the Sackett Building renovation and additions project at University Park.
10/31/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering has surpassed a milestone of $500 million in externally funded research awards since 2019, including nearly $53 million awarded in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, setting the college on track to exceed its 2021-22 fiscal year total of $132.4 million in external research awards.
10/31/2022
Deb Kelly, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Penn State Center for Structural Oncology, was featured on an episode of Science with a Twist, a ThermoFisher Scientific podcast.
10/31/2022
Nearly 40 students and faculty members from the Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering attended the 2022 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in San Antonio on Oct. 12-15.
10/28/2022
Christopher Dancy, Harold and Inge Marcus Industrial and Manufacturing Career Development Associate Professor, wrote an article that appeared on The Conversation, an online source of news stories and research reports with accompanying expert opinion and analysis.
10/28/2022
On Sept. 22, University of Freiburg Rector Kerstin Krieglstein presented the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg’s University Medal to Martin Trethewey, Penn State professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, for his efforts in forging a global collaboration between the two universities.
10/28/2022
Traditional treatments for lung cancers can have serious side effects throughout the body, but newly developed, highly targeted treatments could reduce damage, according to Penn State researchers. A team led by Dan Hayes, biomedical engineering department head and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Nanotherapeutics and Regenerative Medicine at Penn State, developed a method that could lead to one such treatment with magnetic nanoparticles that can release a therapeutic payload when stimulated using a magnetic field.
10/27/2022
Jack Hébert, founder of the Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC) and senior research adviser at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, will deliver the 2022 Hankin Distinguished Lecture at 4 p.m. on Nov. 2 via Zoom.
10/27/2022
Jean Paul Allain, Huck Chair Professor and head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering in the College of Engineering at Penn State, was appointed to serve on the Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee. The national committee advises the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science on the national fusion energy science program.
10/26/2022
A team of Penn State researchers received a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to study the use of quantum computer-based artificial intelligence (AI) to see if quantum computers can bring drugs to patients faster and cheaper.
10/26/2022
Tim Simpson, Paul Morrow Professor in Engineering Design and Manufacturing in the Penn State College of Engineering, has received the Design Theory and Methodology Award from the Design Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
10/25/2022
Meghan Vidt, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Penn State, discusses her research in furthering the understanding of mastectomy and reconstruction surgery for breast cancer and the effects these surgeries have on patients.
10/24/2022
Penn State holds the honor of being one of two universities in the United States, along with Universidad de Puerto Rico, that is home to two UNESCO chairs. Osama Awadelkarim, professor of engineering science and mechanics and director of the Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization (CNEU) holds the title of UNESCO Chair on Building Innovation and Manufacturing Capacities Through Advanced Technology Education.
10/24/2022
Population size and economic development drawbacks may outpace the benefits of less pollution and slowed climate change, according to projections by Penn State-led researchers. The team used past and predicted data to model five future scenarios estimating premature deaths due to air pollution, as well as which areas of the world could be the most impacted.
10/21/2022
Steve Bloser, director of Penn State's Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies, discusses 25 years of Pennsylvania's Dirt, Gravel, and Low Volume Roads Program with Department of Agriculture Secretary Redding.
10/20/2022
Amy Pritchett, head of the Penn State Department of Aerospace Engineering, chairs a 10-person committee that published its first report on emerging commercial aviation safety trends in the United States, sponsored by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
10/19/2022
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the Penn State College of Engineering, and co-principal investigator Dino Ravnic, associate professor of surgery at Penn State College of Medicine and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Regenerative Medicine and Surgical Sciences, were awarded a one-year, $801,134 NIH grant to advance biomaterial-surgical applications.
10/19/2022
Andisheh Ranjbari, Tracy Early Career Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was quoted in a New York Times article that discussed sleeper and luxury coaches as an alternative to plane and train travel.
10/18/2022
Researchers at Penn State have successfully 3D bioprinted breast cancer tumors and treated them in a breakthrough study to better understand the disease that is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide.
10/17/2022
Lois Jung, a 2022 Penn State graduate in industrial and manufacturing engineering, was awarded the 2022 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Supply Chain Excellence Award, for which she received a $25,000 scholarship.
10/14/2022
Wearable robots could reduce injuries among construction workers by providing life support, weight dispersion and posture correction, but the risks and challenges of using them on job sites remain largely unknown, according to Houtan Jebelli, assistant professor of architectural engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering. A three-year, $675,000 National Science Foundation grant will enable a team of researchers from Penn State and Virginia Tech, led by principal investigator Jebelli, to study the physical, psychological and sociotechnical risks of powered wearable exoskeletons to construction workers.
10/14/2022
Chemical engineering alumnus Michael Griffin and his wife, Nikki, established a $400,000 endowment to establish the Michael and Nikki Griffin Early Career Professorship in Chemical Engineering to support a faculty member in the first years of their academic career. The endowment includes a $100,000 matching gift from Penn State.
10/14/2022
Penn State is hosting the DEI Summit: A Big Ten ++ Engineering Workshop Oct. 16-18 to take the next step to incorporate the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion into engineering curricula.
10/14/2022
Penn State researchers have received a two-year, $423,000 grant from the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) to develop a data-driven framework for a wireless sensing system that may protect construction workers from severe heat-related illnesses.
10/13/2022
Damien Guého, a Penn State doctoral student in aerospace engineering, was awarded the $2,500 Guidance, Navigation and Control Graduate Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
10/13/2022
Bruce Logan, Evan Pugh University Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, has been named a fellow of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology.
10/13/2022
Greg Pavlak, assistant professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, was recognized by the U.S. regional affiliate of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA-USA) in September at the 2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild in Chicago.
10/12/2022
A breakthrough in electric vehicle battery design has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy acquired for longer travel range was announced today (Oct. 12) in the journal Nature.
10/12/2022
Madylene Triplett first stepped onto a Penn State campus when she was 13 to attend summer camps hosted by the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. During the camps, she programmed robots, designed and built a vacuum and spoke with women engineers from NASA, Google and elsewhere. Now, she is on her way to becoming one of those engineers herself, as she steps back onto a Penn State campus, this time as a first-year student.
10/12/2022
The Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) Nuclear Security and Physical Protection Technical Division and the INMM Chapter at Penn State will co-host the Security of Advanced Reactors Workshop from Nov. 2-4 both in person at University Park and virtually.
10/11/2022
An interdisciplinary Penn State research team developed machine learning models that assess the connections among hundreds of clinical variables, including doctor visits and health care services for seemingly unrelated medical conditions, to predict the likelihood of autism spectrum disorder in young children. They published the results in BMJ Health & Care Informatics, and a related team earned a NIH grant to pursue the work further.
10/11/2022
In two recent papers, computer scientists at Penn State created and vetted the effectiveness of natural language processing software known as PyrEval-CR for assessing middle school students’ science essays.
10/11/2022
As the frequency and severity of both heat waves and extreme cold weather events increase across the United States, assessing how well a structure can handle extreme temperatures — known as thermal resilience — becomes critical, according to Penn State Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering Julian Wang. With a four-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation grant, a Penn State team led by Wang is developing a new holistic framework to understand the relationship between thermal resilience and sustainable design strategies for buildings and communities.
10/7/2022
Penn State nuclear engineering doctoral student David Reger won the Young Professional Thermal-Hydraulic Research Competition at the American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting on June 14.
10/7/2022
Using an off-the-shelf automotive radar sensor and a novel processing approach, Penn State researchers demonstrated they could detect the vibrations of a cell phone’s earpiece and decipher what the person on the other side of the call was saying with up to 83% accuracy.
10/6/2022
Twenty-eight new faculty members have joined the Penn State College of Engineering since the end of the spring semester. The 17 tenured or tenure-line members and 11 non-tenure-line members represent 12 units and departments and include two new department heads.
10/6/2022
A team of Penn State aerospace engineering graduate students placed in all three events in the 2021 First Responder UAS Triple Challenge, a drone design competition hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The team took home $130,000 in prize money.
10/6/2022
Amrita Basak, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, has received a two-year, $498,235 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award for her work predicting and preventing thermal deformation in multi-laser additive manufacturing.
10/6/2022
Josephine Pindro, a third-year Penn State undergraduate student in industrial engineering, received a grant from Penn State’s Student Engagement Network to support her summer 2022 internship at Boeing, a leader in aircraft manufacturing.
10/6/2022
The “I Engineer” campaign highlights excellence across Penn State’s College of Engineering and how the college is made stronger by the diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds of those in the engineering community. Featured here is alumnus Kriston Ramdass, who works for SpaceX as a test equipment engineer, where he is working to create the next generation of reusable rockets to transport humans from Earth to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
10/6/2022
Penn State Scranton dedicated its new Engineering Building on Thursday, Oct. 6, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that featured Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi as a keynote speaker and approximately 100 guests, including University and community leaders, donors, faculty, staff and students.
10/6/2022
Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences has announced the creation of the Center for Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Industry, which will connect experienced artificial intelligence and machine learning researchers at Penn State with industry partners to identify and pursue collaborative, industry-sponsored, exploratory research projects.
10/5/2022
Penn State architectural engineering alumnus Lester Boyer has established the Lester L. Boyer Graduate Research Scholarship through his estate to help full time Penn State graduate students pursuing a degree in architectural engineering.
10/4/2022
The Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) honor faculty, staff and alumni who have made exceptional contributions to teaching, research, advising and service. The award ceremony will take place in Robb Hall on October 12.
10/4/2022
Penn State has joined the new National Science Foundation Center for Autonomous Air Mobility and Sensing as a founding core member. CAAMS is housed in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at Colorado University Boulder.
10/4/2022
Paul Zeleza, the North Star Distinguished University Professor and Associate Provost at Case Western Reserve University, will visit Penn State to give an open lecture. The event is co-sponsored by the Penn State School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs.
10/3/2022
Enrique del Castillo, Penn State Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and professor of statistics, and former Penn State industrial engineering doctoral student Xueqi Zhao received the Youden award, which honors the best paper from the annual edition of Technometrics.
10/1/2022
Matthew Parkinson, professor of engineering design, mechanical engineering and industrial and manufacturing engineering, was quoted in a Washington Post article about the debate surrounding standard airplane seat sizing.
9/29/2022
Penn State researchers were among those who met with the mayor of Makassar, Indonesia to discuss progress on Smart Garden Alley, the National Science Foundation-funded project taking place in the city.
9/29/2022
Using the human brain as a model, Penn State engineering researchers developed a synaptic transistor, which uses artificial neurotransmitters to optimize functions. The transistor can be used to enhance the performance of wearable devices and robots.
9/28/2022
Penn State researchers have received a $3.6 million, five-year grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study how to increase young adults’ physical activity and decrease their weight gain through personalized messages that encourage people to move more and sit less. Fitbit smartwatches, a smartphone app and internet-connected scales will gather data without significant disruption to participants’ lives.
9/26/2022
Four Penn State College of Engineering faculty members were selected as part of the 2022-23 cohort of Drexel University’s Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES) program. The one-year, part-time leadership program provides training and development for women faculty and administrators.
9/26/2022
Researchers at Penn State and the University of Arizona will use a four-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to employ a synthetic version of these bacteria in a system for capturing and converting methane at its source.
9/23/2022
The 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund awarded Tamy Guimarães, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, a yearlong $34,000 grant to optimize amphibious aircraft for operations in the Amazon Rainforest. The project, in partnership with Brazilian institutes Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Centro Universitário SENAI CIMATEC, received roughly $125,000 in total funding.
9/22/2022
Saptarshi Das, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics, and Akhil Dodda, engineering science and mechanics doctoral student, discussed their research to develop a low-power smart chip that enhances data security in a Happy Valley Industry article.
9/22/2022
The “I Engineer” campaign highlights excellence across Penn State’s College of Engineering and how the college is made stronger by the diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds of those in the engineering community. Featured here is Min Liew, recent recipient of a Penn State doctoral degree in civil engineering.
CoE Headline: Min Liew: ‘I Engineer Resiliency’
9/22/2022
Students advancing solutions in health, education, environment and humanitarianism are making a difference in the world around them through the work they are advancing as part of the Nittany AI Alliance. Several of them received additional funding to continue their work in the AI space at the AI for Good Expo on Sept. 8.
9/22/2022
Amanda Enns, a master’s student in the engineering leadership and innovation management program in the Penn State School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, is helping small and medium-sized businesses through an assistantship in Penn State’s Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program.
9/21/2022
The Penn State Alumni Association will honor Charles Dages, who received a master’s degree in engineering science in 1977, and 13 other Penn Staters on Sept. 28 with the Alumni Fellow Award, the most prestigious award given by the Alumni Association.
9/21/2022
Climate change in the Arctic is evident as temperatures rise and Alaskan coastal Indigenous communities face severe, urgent and complex social and infrastructural challenges. Penn State research in the region, driven by social sciences and in collaboration with engineering and natural sciences, will address these challenges.
9/21/2022
The Penn State Google Developer Student Club was the only team from the United States to earn a place among the top 50 teams in the world for Google’s 2022 Solution Challenge. The competition tasks student clubs to use Google technology to solve for one or more of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
9/20/2022
Peter Collins, doctoral candidate in civil and environmental engineering at Penn State, was recently named the recipient of the 2022-23 ACI Presidents’ Fellowship from the ACI Foundation, a nonprofit subsidiary of the American Concrete Institute.
9/19/2022
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, joined contemporaries from around the world to examine how past medical maladies involving respiratory diseases may have delayed learning that COVID-19 is airborne-transmissible.
9/19/2022
Penn State was named a collaborating institution in a $66 million U.S. Department of Energy Urban Integrated Field Program designed to study the impacts of climate change on American cities. Bruce Logan, Evan Pugh University Professor and Kappe Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is one of 21 Penn State faculty members working on the grant.
9/19/2022
In the brain, neural activity usually is followed by increases in blood flow to the active region, a process known as neurovascular coupling. Scientists know that this process is important for brain health, as the breakdown of this process precedes many neurodegenerative diseases, according to Patrick Drew, Penn State professor of engineering science and mechanics and of biomedical engineering. What scientists don’t know is why neurovascular coupling exists at all. Drew proposed possible answers to this question in a review article, “Neurovascular coupling: Motive unknown,” published in Trends of Neuroscience.
9/19/2022
On Sept. 28 at noon, Xiaojun (Lance) Lian, associate professor of biomedical engineering, will be featured on The Symbiotic Podcast.
9/16/2022
Robert Melton, professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, was elected to the International Academy of Astronautics, an organization focused on global scientific cooperation across disciplines to advance human space exploration.
9/16/2022
A $1.5 million grant from the USDA will enable researchers to assess foraging patterns of honey bees on organic farms, with an eye toward creating opportunities for beekeepers to produce certified-organic honey and other apiary products. Julio Urbina, associate professor of electrical engineering, is part of the interdisciplinary team.
9/16/2022
A project led by Ryan Harne, James F. Will Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was recently featured by multiple media outlets, including The Independent, Interesting Engineering and New Scientist.
9/16/2022
Yun Jing, associate professor of acoustics and of biomedical engineering, and Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, were featured in the January/Februrary issue Radiology Today.
9/15/2022
Natalia Nigay, a doctoral student in Penn State’s Department of Aerospace Engineering, was selected as a NASA Space Technology Graduate Researcher. She will study the use of beamed microwave energy propulsion on the moon.
9/15/2022
The Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering, one of the oldest in the United States, has a new leader. Madhavan Swaminathan will join the University as the head of electrical engineering and William E. Leonhard Endowed Professor on Jan. 1, 2023.
9/14/2022
Penn State researchers collaborated with an international team to develop a flexible, implantable sensor capable of continuous nitric oxide monitoring, which can help identify early signs of osteoarthritis after joint damage.
9/13/2022
Working together across disciplines, researchers from Penn State and the University of Freiburg are applying materials that adapt, respond to the environment, self-power and regenerate to meet the challenges of adaptive architecture.
9/13/2022
Two Penn State researchers, including Bruce Logan, Evan Pugh University Professor, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering and director of the Institutes of Energy and the Environment, provided key leadership in the creation of a report to the National Science Foundation on engineering research areas needed to address climate change. Logan served as a co-chair and member of the report’s Thematic Task Force. He also guided content creation and report editing.
9/13/2022
Penn State researchers received $1 million from NASA to help states improve the way they address air quality issues. Wei Peng, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of international affairs, is a co-investigator on the project.
9/12/2022
In August, nearly 300 first-year engineering students participated in the Multicultural Engineering Program Orientation and the Women in Engineering Program Orientation.
9/12/2022
Penn State ranked 22 out of 212 schools in "Best Engineering Programs" at schools whose highest degree is a doctorate. The University also ranked well in a number of engineering specialties.
9/8/2022
Engineering researchers have received a $570,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to improve upon membrane capacitive deionization, a portable, lightweight, and easy to operate water purification method that has the potential to desalinate seawater.
9/7/2022
Michael Lanagan, professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, is part of an academic-enterprise partnership that has developed a new dielectric material for use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines. The material is designed to deliver higher image resolutions and enable shorter scan times, which may reduce MRI operating costs for the hospital and lessen the MRI-related anxiety suffered by some patients.
9/7/2022
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and biomedical engineering, and his team's research were recently featured in a BioTechniques article.
9/7/2022
A Penn State-led team of interdisciplinary researchers has developed techniques to improve the efficiency of CRISPR-Cas9, the genome editing technique that earned the Nobel Prize in 2020.
9/6/2022
An interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study food, energy and water security in remote Alaska communities.
9/2/2022
Seong Kim, Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering and associate head of the department at Penn State, was named this year’s recipient of the Hayashi Jisuke Prize from the Cellulose Society of Japan. The award is given to “up-and-coming researchers from Japan and overseas who are making significant contributions to the development of cellulose science and technology” and who also promote “efforts in international exchange activities,” according to the Cellulose Society’s website. Kim was the only researcher recognized this year.
9/2/2022
Krystal Leung, a fourth-year Schreyer Honors College Scholar who is majoring in computer science in the College of Engineering, was awarded the Scholar Involvement Award.
8/31/2022
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a multi-institution team a $9 million, five-year grant to understand how to protect data shared across distributed computing systems such as cloud computing environments. Danfeng Zhang, associate professor of computer science and engineering, will contribute.
8/30/2022
Vikash Gayah, associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, was featured on The Academic Minute radio broadcast. Gayah discussed making busy intersections safer by eliminating left turns.
8/30/2022
Sven Bilén, professor of engineering design, electrical engineering and aerospace engineering, and Ali Memari, Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction, director of PHRC and professor of architectural engineering and civil and environmental engineering, were recently featured in a Daily Collegian article.
8/29/2022
The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State is one of the recipients of a four-year $4.6 million multi-institution grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will fund microelectronics and nanomanufacturing training for military service members and veterans in ongoing efforts to create a robust nanomanufacturing workforce establish the U.S.
8/29/2022
When aerospace engineering doctoral student Chris Axten was a child, he would sometimes accompany his mother to her work at Patuxent Naval Air Station in Maryland and watch the aircraft flying overhead, curious about how such large vehicles could move through the air. His curiosity grew, and when he enrolled at Penn State in 2012 as a first-year undergraduate student, the Department of Aerospace Engineering was his top choice. Once he met Mark Maughmer, professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, Axten’s interest in aircraft solidified into a passion for sailplanes. Over the last two years, that dedication has resulted in national recognition from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
8/29/2022
Students taking a leadership course in Penn State’s School of Engineering Design Technology, and Professional Programs placed in the Airport Cooperative Research Program, a national engineering competition that aims to solve problems and inconveniences common to airports.
8/26/2022
Penn State architectural engineering students won first- and second-place awards from the American Society of Heating for projects focused on a new energy-efficient performing arts building on a university campus in Sydney, Australia.
8/26/2022
John Messner, Charles and Elinor Matts Professor of Architectural Engineering at Penn State, has been inducted into the National Academy of Construction.
8/25/2022
Sahin Ozdemir, professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, was featured in a New Scientist story about a maze of mirrors and lenses that turns any material into a highly efficient light absorber.
8/25/2022
Eric Greenwood, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, was recently quoted in Aerospace American. Greenwood discussed the excitement surrounding electric aircraft vertical takeoff and landing and the technical challenges involved with its development.
8/24/2022
Penn State researchers have developed a novel nanoengineered granular hydrogel bioink that could be used to to develop biomaterials that can be three-dimensionally (3D) printed as complex organ shapes, capable of hosting cells and forming tissues.
8/24/2022
Parisa Shokouhi, Penn State professor of engineering science and mechanics, was recently awarded a $360,000, three-year mid-career advancement grant from the National Science Foundation.
8/24/2022
A Penn State-led research team has created the first example of a soft, polymer material that acts like a brain, simultaneously sensing, thinking and acting upon mechanical stress without requiring additional circuits to process these signals.
8/23/2022
Dipanjan Pan, Huck Chair Professor and professor of nuclear engineering at Penn State, led a research team that recently published their paper, “Small Molecule NIR-II Dyes for Switchable Photoluminescence via Host – Guest Complexation and Supramolecular Assembly with Carbon Dots,” in Advanced Science.
8/23/2022
The “I Engineer” campaign highlights excellence across Penn State’s College of Engineering and how the college is made stronger by the diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds of those in the engineering community. Featured here is chemical engineering alumna Paula Garcia Todd, global strategic manager of pharma solutions for International Flavors & Fragrances.
8/22/2022
Kathryn Jablokow, professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering, recently received a National Science Foundation Director’s Award as part of the team that created the Engineering Research Initiation program.
8/19/2022
A research collaboration led by G. Gary Tan and Trent Jaeger, professors of computer science and engineering at Penn State, developed a framework to automate device driver isolation to protect against bugs.
8/18/2022
Penn State chemical engineering researchers used micro- and nanoparticles created from the organic materials like corncobs and tomato peels to capture rare earth elements from aqueous solutions.
8/18/2022
“I Engineer” highlights excellence across the Penn State College of Engineering, as well as how the college is made stronger by the diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds of those in the engineering community. Featured here is Ilgin Guler, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.
8/18/2022
Madhavan Swaminathan, incoming head of electrical engineering and William E. Leonard Endowed Chair, was featured on the Names & Faces page of Electrical Apparatus magazine’s November 2022 – Workforce! issue.
8/18/2022
Aleksandra Radlinska, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, discusses Penn State research into extraterrestrial construction materials done in collaboration with NASA researchers.
8/18/2022
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering, discusses how the COVID pandemic provided an opportunity for U.S. schools to address the long-term problem of poor indoor air quality in the classroom.
8/17/2022
Larry Cheng received a Scialog grant for a multidisciplinary research projects called "Transforming Imaging Collection in the Brain."
8/16/2022
A light-based, food sanitization technique successfully eliminated multiple harmful pathogens in a new study carried out by Penn State researchers. The technique showed promise as an effective alternative to the chemical, heat and water-based antimicrobial technologies commonly used in the food industry.
8/16/2022
Peripheral nerves are responsible for moving muscles, sensing temperatures and even inhaling and exhaling; yet they comprise fragile fibers vulnerable to disease and injury. To maximize healing for the easily damaged nerves, Penn State researchers are using a five-year, $2.14 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Nation Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to develop a biodegradable nerve scaffold that aims to employ folate and citrate in novel ways.
8/15/2022
Researchers in the Penn State Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education received a $19,000 grant to facilitate a focus group intended to identify the most important outcomes of any STEM-based entrepreneurship course or program.
8/12/2022
Osama Awadelkarim, professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, is an expert on semiconductor fabrication and microelectronics workforce development. He testified before Congress regarding the CHIPS Act and the need to strengthen the pipeline from education to industry.
8/12/2022
A team of multiple principal investigators that includes Jian Yang, professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, received a four-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop biodegradable nanomaterials that will take pictures and deliver medicine to combat peripheral arterial disease.
8/12/2022
Motif FoodWorks connected with Penn State Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Rui Shi after learning that chemical engineering senior students completed preliminary designs for heme protein production during their capstone design course. Motif awarded Shi a $125,000 grant to explore the environmental impacts of two of Motif’s products: HEMAMITM protein, used in the company’s plant-based burgers, and APPETEXTM, which mimics the texture of animal tissue.
8/11/2022
Penn State engineers contributed to a global study, by more than 90 researchers and published in Nature, on the effectiveness of traditional risk management tactics on mitigating extreme weather event impacts.
8/9/2022
Bruce E. Logan, Evan Pugh University Professor and the Stan & Flora Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will serve as the new director of the Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment, effective Aug. 15, 2022. Logan is also affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering.
8/9/2022
Xiaohang Ji, a doctoral candidate studying geotechnical and materials engineering at Penn State, received $7,500 in scholarships from the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust.
8/9/2022
Benjamin Burlovic, a fourth-year Penn State Schreyer Scholar majoring in mechanical engineering and economics, completed an internship with consulting firm Deloitte this summer using Chapel Executive Internship funding.
8/9/2022
Smart bandages that can sense skin conditions and administer medication at wound sites may be on the horizon as a healing remedy, according to Penn State researchers. They recently reviewed the field’s latest developments in Bioactive Materials.
8/8/2022
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering, was recently featured in a Los Angeles Times article about air filtration devices and how they can help stop the spread of COVID-19.
8/5/2022
Penn State researchers have developed a take-home, saliva-based test with the same level of sensitivity as the PCR, with results that send to a smart phone within 45 minutes.
8/3/2022
Xiao Zhuang has been named the summer 2022 student marshal for the Penn State College of Engineering. He will receive his bachelor of science in computer science with a minor in mathematics at the University’s commencement ceremony, which will be held at 10:30 a.m. on August 13 in the Bryce Jordan Center at University Park.
8/3/2022
With professional experiences ranging from teaching engineering to future military officers at West Point to establishing the mechanical engineering program at The Citadel, Rob Rabb has developed a guiding belief to underpin his approach to education. He summed up this belief in one sentence: “Engineers can do a lot for a society, whether in industry or academia, but first they need a strong foundation — not just with technical knowledge but with skills like teamwork, communication and leadership.” This philosophy is one that he will apply in his new role as associate dean of education for the Penn State College of Engineering. Rabb will start in the position on Aug. 1.
8/3/2022
Despite a cancelled senior season, Nittany Lion gymnast and electrical engineering alumnus Stephen Nedoroscik persevered to win America's first world title on pommel horse.
8/1/2022
he latest episode of the Growing Impact podcast features Emily Rosenman, assistant professor of geography in Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Science. Rosenman is collaborating with Esther Obonyo, associate professor of engineering design and architectural engineering in the Penn State’s College of Engineering, to investigate energy transition in segregated cities.
8/1/2022
Gopal Bhatt, an assistant research professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was part of a multi-institutional team that recently received a 2022 Blue Pencil and Gold Screen Award from the National Association of Government Communicators.
8/1/2022
Accurate, continuous monitoring of nitrogen dioxide and other gases in humid environments is now possible, thanks to a new water-resistant gas sensor developed by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and his team.
7/28/2022
Penn State ranks in the top 50 in 16 subject area rankings — two of which are from the College of Engineering — and in the top 100 in the world in an additional 14 subjects — including three related to the College of Engineering — according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
7/27/2022
Penn State World Campus, in partnership with the College of Engineering, is accepting applications for a new online doctoral degree program in engineering that focuses on the practical implementation of engineering research and leadership in the field.
7/27/2022
FirstEnergy Corporation worked with the Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program at Penn State to sponsor two projects in the Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory in 2017. Since then, FirstEnergy Foundation has partnered with PennTAP to facilitate connections and some financial support for locally sponsored Learning Factory projects. So far, 53 participating businesses have reported resulting economic benefits in excess of $2 million.
7/27/2022
An interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers has received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a three-institution team developing the “Sustainfood Network,” which links scientists, communities and policymakers to address challenges in Africa at the nexus of water, energy and food security.
7/26/2022
Phillip Savage, currently the head of Penn State Department of Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering, has been named interim associate vice president for research and director of strategic initiatives in the Penn State Office of the Senior Vice President for Research (OSVPR), effective Aug. 22.
7/26/2022
SME, formerly known as the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, has named two Penn Staters to their 10th annual 30 Under 30 list, recognizing them as future leaders of manufacturing: Qianyu Hu and Rico Polim. The full list was published in the society’s magazine, Manufacturing Engineering.
7/26/2022
A project led by Li Li, professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was highlighted in Eos, a science news magazine. The project investigated how climate affects long-term river chemistry.
7/25/2022
Amrita Basak, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $625,000 Department of Energy (DOE) 2022 Distinguished Early Career Program award. She will use the grant to develop advanced manufacturing processes for metal additive manufacturing (AM) and enable more rapid implementation of AM techniques.
7/25/2022
Nature creates layered materials like bone and mother-of-pearl that become less sensitive to defects as they grow. Now researchers have created — using biomimetic proteins patterned on squid ring teeth, circular appendages on the tentacles of squid that are used to grasp prey — composite layered 2D materials that are resistant to breaking and extremely stretchable.
7/25/2022
In a video series titled “Perspective: Leaders at Penn State,” Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean in the College of Engineering, reflects on his passion for baseball as an opportunity to explore how individual success is derived from a team working well together.??
7/22/2022
The Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team finished the first leg of the four-year AutoDrive Challenge II, taking home seven top-three recognitions for their preliminary design and simulation demonstration of an autonomous vehicle. The competition took place June 6-10 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
7/21/2022
Erin Hostetler, director of student research and graduate equity in the Penn State College of Engineering’s Center for Engineering Outreach and Inclusion, was recently honored with the Undergraduate Research Leadership Award from the Engineering Division Councilors of the Council on Undergraduate Research.
7/19/2022
A study led by Larry Cheng, James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, examined the ways to decouple input signals for multimodal sensors, which is important for avoiding complicated signal processing steps and allowing for high accuracy with the multimodal sensors.
7/19/2022
An interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers developed a low-power, all-in-one device that can sense, store, compute and communicate information among connected devices, while keeping data encrypted and secure.
7/18/2022
Penn State agricultural engineers have developed, for the first time, a prototype “end-effector” capable of deftly removing unwanted apples from trees. It’s the first step toward robotic green-fruit thinning.
7/18/2022
Alfonso Mejia, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named the director of research for the Penn State Water Council.
7/18/2022
Hee Jeung Oh, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, is one of 84 early-career engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)’s Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 U.S.-based symposium.
7/18/2022
Penn State researchers develop a modeling framework to study how indoor ozone levels react with common indoor surfaces, such as carpet.
7/14/2022
Christopher Bereznak, an electrical systems specialist in the Penn State Facilities Engineering Institute, earned his Level III Master Thermographer Certification, the highest recognized level in the thermography industry, from the Infrared Training Center.
7/14/2022
Houtan Jebelli, assistant professor of architectural engineering, was featured in the summer 2022 issue of the Keystone Contractor Association’s magazine, “The Keystone Contractor.” In the article, “Innovation for the Future,” Jebelli discusses the use of self-optimizing collaborative robots, artificially intelligent heavy machines and unmanned vehicles on construction sites. He highlights the challenges of robots operating in dynamic job sites, a focus of his work in Penn State’s Robotics, Automation, and Intelligent Sensing Lab, where Jebelli serves as the director.
7/13/2022
Sailahari V. Ponnaluri, a doctoral candidate in the Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering, earned a 2022 Oral Abstract Award from the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO). She was recognized at the annual conference in Chicago on June 9.
7/13/2022
Shelley Stoffels, professor of civil and environmental engineering, was named associate dean for faculty in the Penn State College of Engineering, which she began on May 15. She will assist Anthony Atchley, incoming acting dean of the College of Engineering, with tenure-line and professional track faculty affairs.
7/11/2022
Nikki Crowley, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, has been awarded a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study the neurobiology of binge alcohol drinking.
7/11/2022
Thermally regenerative ammonia batteries can produce electricity on demand from low-grade waste heat. A new process for creating these batteries improves their stability and affordability and may help address the country’s growing grid-scale energy storage problem, according to Penn State researchers.
7/5/2022
Aida Ebrahimi, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and of biomedical engineering, has been selected as one of 13 researchers from seven multidisciplinary teams to receive a 2022 Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease Award. The $55,000 grant will allow Ebrahimi to conduct research to expand the understanding of the gut-brain axis.
7/5/2022
Cunjiang Yu, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and associate professor of biomedical engineering, recently was featured in a Happy Valley Industry Q&A
7/1/2022
A team of Penn State data scientists and biologists published two papers that analyze data sketching tools used in bioinformatics, the field of study that analyzes the DNA sequencing, or genomes, of living organisms.
7/1/2022
Syed Rafiul Hussain, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, received recognition and a $1 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for his work to improve the security of 5G cellular networks.
7/1/2022
Hui Yang, professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering and of biomedical engineering, was named to the annual SME 25 Leaders Transforming Manufacturing list.
6/30/2022
Vincent Meunier, professor of physics and materials science engineering and head of the Department of Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was named head of the Penn State College of Engineering’s Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics. He will start on July 1.
6/30/2022
Five College of Engineering graduate students have received 2022 NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant awards and been named graduate fellows.
6/30/2022
Sensors are a step closer to sniffing out various gases that could indicate disease or pollution, thanks to a Penn State collaboration. Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics in the College of Engineering, and Lauren Zarzar, assistant professor of chemistry in Eberly College of Science, and their teams combined laser writing and responsive sensor technologies to fabricate the first highly customizable microscale gas sensing devices.
6/30/2022
William Burgos, professor of environmental engineering, was recently quoted in a story by the Chesapeake Bay Journal discussing his research into the effectiveness of conventional oil and gas brine as a dust suppressant.
6/30/2022
Penn State announced academic promotions for non-tenure-line faculty members at the University. The promotions will take effect on July 1. The below lists are for non-tenure-line faculty promotions in engineering.
6/29/2022
Bridge deterioration models to predict future bridge conditions
6/29/2022
Shelley Stoffels, associate dean for faculty in the Penn State College of Engineering and professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a fellow of the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Academic Leadership Program.
6/29/2022
The Center for Global Engineering Engagement has partnered with the College of Agricultural Sciences to develop a new embedded course that will give Penn State students an opportunity to explore Antarctica.
6/28/2022
Penn State students in the online Master of Engineering Additive Manufacturing and Design program at World Campus visited University Park from May 16-20, as a component of the three-credit core course, ME 566: Metal Additive Manufacturing Lab.
6/27/2022
Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean in the College of Engineering, will assume the role of interim executive vice president and provost at Penn State on Aug. 15 following a transitional period that will begin in mid-July.
6/27/2022
Anthony Atchley, currently senior associate dean in the Penn State College of Engineering, will serve as acting dean for the college starting Aug. 15. The appointment comes as Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean in the College of Engineering, transitions to serve as the interim executive vice president and provost for Penn State.
6/27/2022
William Burgos, professor of environmental engineering, was featured in a WPSU video discussing the acid mine discharge from abandoned Pennsylvania coal mines.
6/27/2022
Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States, but the models that have been used to predict suicide rates weight risk factors equally and rely on data for large geographic areas, limiting the precision of the predictions, according to Penn State researchers. Now, the researchers have developed a machine learning-based model that uses their newly developed suicide vulnerability index, which weights risk factors, to identify at-risk communities at the U.S. county level.
6/27/2022
Two students in the Penn State College of Engineering were named Fulbright finalists for the 2022-23 academic year.
6/24/2022
Eight Penn State engineering graduate students received the Diefenderfer Graduate Fellowship in Entrepreneurship for the 2022-2023 academic year.
6/22/2022
Dan Hayes, Penn State alumnus, professor of biomedical engineering, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Nanotherapeutics and Regenerative Medicine and director for the Center of Excellence in Industrial Biotechnology, named new head of the Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering.
6/22/2022
Kostas Papakonstantinou, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was featured in a Trib Live article that discussed the collapse of Pittsburgh’s Fern Hollow Bridge, as well as the results of a routine inspection that took place before the collapse.
6/22/2022
Nick Jones, executive vice president and provost at Penn State, is stepping down from the role and will return to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean in the College of Engineering, was named as the interim executive vice president and provost.
6/21/2022
A team of engineering and architecture students from Penn State brought home third place in the Retrofit Housing Division of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2022 Design Challenge Competition on April 23 at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
6/20/2022
A new and more reliable method to defend vulnerable data on the stack, a major memory region responsible for storing computer program data for processes, has been developed by an international Penn State-led team. The researchers published their approach in the Proceedings of the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium.
6/17/2022
A Penn State-led team created a standalone 3D antenna system that wirelessly harvests radio frequency energy and converts it to electrical energy to power itself and on-board sensors.
6/17/2022
Laura Cabrera, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Career Chair in Neuroethics, discussed the neuroethical implications of the first reference charts for the human brain.
6/16/2022
Penn State’s Autonomous Robotics Competition Club placed third out of nine teams in the Design-Build-Vertical Flight Student Competition, the Vertical Flight Society announced.
6/16/2022
Emeritus Ron Danner has departed Penn State after 55 years as teacher, mentor and researcher in the chemical engineering field.
6/15/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering community is mourning the loss of Andrew Michael “Mike” Erdman, retired professor of practice, who died on May 29 at the age of 74. He earned an undergraduate degree in engineering science from the college in 1969, and his enduring dedication to Penn State and engineering was recognized with the college’s highest honor, the Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award, in March.
6/14/2022
Effective July 1, Christopher House, professor of geosciences, will serve as director of the Consortium for Planetary and Exoplanetary Sciences and Technology, which includes researchers from the College of Engineering.
6/14/2022
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Dorothy Quiggle Career Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, was mentioned in an article on Archinect. The article discusses a project ? for which Mahdavi is a co-principal investigator ? to study the embodied carbon emissions associated with the building sector in cities.
6/13/2022
Sydney Gibbard, a biomedical engineering student, explains how Invent Penn State has helped fund her nonprofit, Girls Code the World.
6/13/2022
COVID-19 created an urgent need for vaccines that could be made quickly, safely and cost-effectively. Novel biotechnology platform-based techniques for vaccine manufacturing are more robust, customizable and flexible than traditional vaccine development and manufacturing approaches.
6/13/2022
A Penn State-led collaboration has created artificial skin that mimics both the elasticity and neurologic functions of cephalopod skin. Made entirely of rubber, this material has potential applications for neurorobotics, skin prosthetics, artificial organs and more.
6/10/2022
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering and chair of the American Society of Heating and Air-Conditioning Engineers’ Epidemic Task Force, was featured in a Scientific American article that discussed the importance and urgency behind upgrading buildings’ ventilation and filtration to decrease COVID-19 transmission and improve health and cognitive performance.
6/10/2022
The first international conference on Advanced Instrument, Diagnostics and Controls for Applications in Turbomachinery, held May 22-24 at Penn State, has announced its student winners for technical oral and poster presentations.
6/9/2022
Three Penn State College of Engineering faculty have received Fulbright Awards for the 2022-23 academic year, according to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, the U.S. government's flagship international educational exchange program. Another was named a Fulbright Specialist.
6/9/2022
Wearable sensors — an important tool for health monitoring and for training artificial intelligence — can be waterproof or can measure more than one stimuli, but combining these factors while maintaining a high level of precision in the measurements is difficult. Researchers co-led by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, has created sensors that are waterproof — an important trait for exercise monitoring and for withstanding perspiration and all weather conditions — can measure temperature and motion on both small and large scales and can be attached to distal arteries such as the eyebrow or toe.
6/9/2022
Four teams were recognized for outstanding innovation in service systems engineering with an international award co-sponsored by the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
6/9/2022
Four teams were recognized for outstanding innovation in service systems engineering with an international award co-sponsored by the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
6/9/2022
Four teams were recognized for outstanding innovation in service systems engineering with an international award co-sponsored by the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
6/9/2022
Four teams were recognized for outstanding innovation in service systems engineering with an international award co-sponsored by the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
6/9/2022
Four teams were recognized for outstanding innovation in service systems engineering with an international award co-sponsored by the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
6/7/2022
Zoubeida Ounaies, professor of mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was chosen as associate and acting director of Penn State's Materials Research Institute.
6/7/2022
Will Searight, a doctoral student in nuclear engineering at Penn State, recently received the James F. Schumar Graduate Scholarship from the American Nuclear Society and a NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellowship, given by the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium.
6/7/2022
Karen A. Thole, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering, was selected to receive the 2022 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Heat Transfer Memorial Award.
6/7/2022
A method of highly accurate and sensitive virus identification using Raman spectroscopy, a portable virus capture device and machine learning could enable real-time virus detection and identification to help battle future pandemics, according to a team led by Penn State.
6/6/2022
A research team led by Penn State and the University of California, Los Angeles, developed a novel surface treatment for medical devices such as catheters to help prevent hospital infections from bacterial films that can form on these devices.
6/3/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering will recognize 11 early career alumni for their achievements and demonstrated commitment to their professions, communities and Penn State at a ceremony on June 17 at University Park.
6/3/2022
The winning submissions from Penn State University Libraries Short Stories’ “Written in the Stars” spring 2022 contest have been announced. Representing 50 submissions across 10 Penn State campuses, the latest writing contest encouraged students, faculty and staff across the commonwealth to submit their best “fate-themed” original short stories or poetry.
6/2/2022
Li Li, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State, was named the first Barry and Shirley Isett Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering. The professorship was established in 2019 as a $1 million gift by Barry and Shirley Isett.
6/2/2022
Margaret Byron, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was featured on a recent episode of IEE's Growing Impact podcast to discuss her research on how biofilms may impact the transport of microplastics through water.
6/2/2022
Caitlin Grady, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Lauren Dennis, doctoral student in civil engineering, wrote an article that appeared on The Conversation, an online source of news stories and research reports with accompanying expert opinion and analysis.
6/1/2022
Bryan Habas, first-year doctoral student in mechanical engineering at Penn State, has been selected for the National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship Award.
6/1/2022
Researchers traveled to Dillingham in April to study the social and engineering impacts of the Wood River Bridge on the surrounding rural community.
6/1/2022
A new study by Penn State researchers shows that ‘variant’ complexes of a protein implicated in ALS pathology form in separate pathways, a discovery which may make it easier for drug developers to design therapies to target the more harmful variant.
5/31/2022
Melissa Brindise, Penn State assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received a three-year, $231,000 career development award from the American Heart Association to study factors that may increase the risk of an aneurysm rupture.
5/31/2022
The YES team — which is led by Christine Cunningham, professor of practice in Penn State’s College of Education and College of Engineering — has been working with CPS since January and was featured in a recent article, published by the school district.
