Nine newly promoted engineering faculty honored through library books
October 11, 2023
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on Penn State News. It features nine newly promoted or tenured engineering faculty.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Recently tenured and promoted Penn State faculty across the University were honored Oct. 2 through Penn State’s Promotion and Tenure Recognition Program, now in its 21st year.
As part of the tradition, each newly tenured or promoted faculty member is asked to select a book title for the University Libraries’ permanent collection and to submit a personal statement explaining why they chose that book.
The following engineering professors, listed with their book selections, were honored.
- Allison M. Beese, professor of mechanical engineering
- The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike
- Catherine Berdanier, associate professor of mechanical engineering
- A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
- Vikash V. Gayah, professor of civil engineering
- Little Blue Truck Leads the Way by Alice Schertle
- Jessica D. Menold, associate professor of mechanical engineering
- Creative Confidence by David Kelley
- Paul Medvedev, professor of computer science and engineering
- The Science of Computing: Shaping a Discipline by Matti Tedre
- Bladimir Ramos-Alvarado, associate professor of mechanical engineering
- Entropy Generation Minimization: The Method of Thermodynamic Optimization of Finite-Size Systems and Finite-Time Processes by Adrian Bejan
- Julianna Simon, associate professor of acoustics and biomedical engineering
- The Acoustic Bubble by Tim Leighton
- Spencer Szczesny, associate professor of biomedical engineering;
- Collagen: Structure and Mechanics by Peter Fratzl
- Julio Urbina, professor of electrical engineering
- Analog Signals and Systems by Erhan Kudeki and David Munson
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