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4/24/2026
Penn State’s Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) has launched new curricula for students interested in the service sector. These include a specialized service systems engineering (SSE) option for the bachelor of science degree program in industrial engineering, as well as several new courses on subjects ranging from healthcare systems modeling to pricing and demand management.
4/16/2026
The engineering graduate programs at Penn State rose to No. 28 in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Graduate Schools rankings, climbing three spots from the 2025 edition. Penn State’s College of Engineering ranks No. 14 among public universities and remains the No. 1 public university in the state of Pennsylvania.
4/10/2026
The newly established Digital Twins Hub, housed under the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), has launched a new program to spotlight University researchers utilizing digital twins in innovative ways and to bridge the literacy gap between emerging technologies and undergraduate education.
4/9/2026
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2026 commencement, recognizing top students from each major and ROTC for academic excellence and leadership. The honor highlights their achievements and contributions to the engineering community as they prepare to graduate.
4/9/2026
The winners of the 18th annual Materials Visualization Competition (MVC) have been announced. MVC is a scientific visual and artistic competition that celebrates the quality of research in materials at Penn State and promotes awareness of materials science through visualization. MVC is sponsored by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute.
4/7/2026
Qiushi Chen, Korb Early Career Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering in the College of Engineering, has received the 2026 Graduate Faculty Teaching Award.
4/6/2026
The Penn State College of Engineering will recognize 21 alumni with the 2026 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award and Early Career Award in a ceremony on April 9 in the State Theatre. The event marks the second year in which the two awards will be presented during a combined ceremony.
3/27/2026
Penn State has named the inaugural Innovation to Impact Awards recipients, recognizing faculty, researchers, entrepreneurs and partners whose work exemplifies the University’s commitment to translating research into real-world impact.
3/3/2026
Hui Yang, Gary and Sheila Bello Chair in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State, aims to address issues around heart disease and treatment with virtually engineered digital twins — or digital replicas — of the human heart for more accurate, personalized treatment.
2/12/2026
Integrating high-performance computing, structural bioinformatics and open-source software infrastructure is a critical computational challenge for solving protein structure and designing de novo proteins. This work is important for furthering the discovery and translational research in this field. Vinay Mathew, a Penn State doctoral student in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, has emerged as a key innovator. At the heart of his recent work are two production-grade service-modules built for modern HPC environments.
2/4/2026
Penn State researcher Christopher Dancy is part of a multi-institutional team awarded $11 million through Schmidt Sciences’ 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute to develop new AI tools that expand and support Black digital archives. The project aims to merge technological innovation with humanistic values to create more ethical, culturally informed AI systems.
2/4/2026
The Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education has announced the winners of its inaugural Arts and Engineering Competition. The competition celebrates the creativity and innovation at the intersection of art and engineering.
2/2/2026
Despite the prevalence of synthetic materials across different industries and scientific fields, most are developed to serve a limited set of functions. To address this inflexibility, researchers at Penn State, led by Hongtao Sun, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering (IME), have developed a fabrication method that can print multifunctional “smart synthetic skin” — configurable materials that can be used to encrypt or decrypt information, enable adaptive camouflage, power soft robotics and more.
1/27/2026
Over 7 million people aged 65 and older suffer from Alzheimer's disease in the United States, according to a 2025 report from the Alzheimer’s Association. More of the debilitating symptoms could be mitigated or better managed with an earlier diagnosis, said Hui Yang, Gary and Sheila Bello Chair in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State.
1/14/2026
The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) has announced the results of its most recent seed-funding competition. The center awarded more than $152,000 to seven interdisciplinary research projects representing six colleges, including two projects involving College of Engineering faculty.
12/12/2025
The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences’ (ICDS) Mid-Scale Seed Grant Program has awarded over $540,000 in total to 24 Penn State faculty members across eight teams representing six colleges and three campuses — University Park, Behrend and Hershey — that will contribute to one or more of the institute’s research hubs or affiliated centers. Thirteen College of Engineering faculty members are involved in a total of six of the eight projects.
12/5/2025
The Penn State Learning Factory will host its biannual end-of-semester showcase for engineering students to present their cornerstone and capstone design projects. The in-person showcase will take place from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 11, at the Bryce Jordan Center, while a virtual showcase will take place on Friday, Dec. 12 through Friday, Dec. 19. Both versions of the event are free and open to the public.
11/12/2025
Penn State will celebrate its eleventh GivingTuesday on Dec. 2 — and the College of Engineering invites alumni and friends to be a part of the event by making a gift to support engineering student success.
10/29/2025
A team of researchers at Penn State led by Hongtao Sun, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering (IME), an affiliated faculty member in biomedical engineering, material science and engineering and the Materials Research Institute, recently developed dense, thick electrodes with substantially improved cell-level charge capacity, while also enhancing mechanical strength to withstand degradation during repeated battery charge cycles. They published their findings in Nature Communications.
10/17/2025
Five years ago, the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation established the A. James Clark Scholars Program, a comprehensive scholarship and curricular support program for exceptional Penn State engineering undergraduates who demonstrate financial need. Now, with an additional $11 million investment, the Clark Foundation renewed its support for the program, ensuring that 10 new undergraduate engineering majors at Penn State will receive full tuition, fees, room and board, and curricular enrichment support each year in perpetuity.
10/1/2025
The Penn State Alumni Association celebrated some of its best and brightest during the 2025 Alumni Fellow Awards ceremony on Sept. 17, where 12 Penn State alumni — two of whom are College of Engineering graduates — received the Alumni Association’s most prestigious honor.
9/25/2025
The INFORMS Pennsylvania State University Student Chapter has been awarded the 2025 Student Chapter Annual Award at the Summa Cum Laude level, the highest distinction given by INFORMS. The chapter will be recognized at the INFORMS Annual Meeting on October 27 in Atlanta, Georgia.
9/22/2025
Between February and August 2025, the Penn State College of Engineering welcomed 12 new faculty members across various departments, including tenure-line, professional track, and administrative roles. This expansion supports the college’s strategic commitment to academic and research excellence.
9/22/2025
A team at Penn State recently developed an integration framework that uses minimal new experimental data to identify relevant information in existing scientific literature. By combining information from existing research and their own experiments, the LLM-powered framework can derive numeric equations that accurately predict physical phenomena in high-speed laser welding, a manufacturing technique capable of highly precise welds on items like fuel cells in electric vehicles.
7/2/2025
The Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) held its annual awards ceremony on June 20 at the State Theatre, building on its 53-year tradition of honoring excellence among engineering faculty, staff and alumni through the PSEAS awards. The award recipients were recognized in the categories of teaching, research, advising and service.
6/24/2025
Five research teams from Penn State's College of Engineering have been awarded seed grants through the Institute of Energy and the Environment’s 2025 Seed Grant Program to pursue innovative projects in sustainable energy, materials, and infrastructure. These interdisciplinary efforts aim to advance technologies such as CO? recycling, smart windows, and hydrogen storage, while positioning teams for future external funding.
5/21/2025
Penn State researchers have developed a cold sintering process that enables low-temperature, energy-efficient manufacturing of solid-state battery materials, overcoming key production hurdles. The breakthrough could accelerate the development of safer, faster-charging and more sustainable batteries for electric vehicles and electronics.
5/20/2025
Putting their classroom engineering skills to a practical test, a group of undergraduates designed, built and are currently testing a single-seat, open-cockpit racecar to prepare for the annual Formula SAE Electric competition, which will take place from June 17-21 at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan.
