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Penn State promotes 25 tenure-line College of Engineering faculty
May 20, 2026
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on Penn State News.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State has announced academic promotions for tenured and tenure-line faculty members at Penn State, including 25 faculty from the College of Engineering, effective July 1,2026. The list of non-tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2026, is available here. The College of Engineering tenured and tenure-line faculty promotions are below.
The following individuals have been promoted to professor:
- Christos Argyropoulos, professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Catherine Berdanier, professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Laura Cabrera Trujillo, professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, College of Engineering
- Bo Cheng, professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Huanyu "Larry" Cheng, professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, College of Engineering
- Sukwon Choi, professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Brian Fronk, professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Bin Li, professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Guhaprasanna Manogharan, professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Xingjie Ni, professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering
The following individuals have been promoted to associate professor:
- Jared Butler, associate professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation, College of Engineering
- Dorukalp Durmus, associate professor, Department of Architectural Engineering, College of Engineering
- Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, associate professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation, College of Engineering
- Yuqing Hu, associate professor, Department of Architectural Engineering, College of Engineering
- Daning Huang, associate professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
- Syed Rafiul Hussain, associate professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
- Yan Li, associate professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Rasoul Milasi, associate professor of engineering, Engineering, University College
- Joseph Najem, associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Rebecca Napolitano, associate professor, Department of Architectural Engineering, College of Engineering
- Chunhao Wang, associate professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
- Xing Wang, associate professor, Kenneth and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering, College of Engineering
- Yang Yang, associate professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, College of Engineering
- Rui Zhang, associate professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
- Linxiao Zhu, associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Read the full list of promoted tenure-line faculty here.
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