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3/31/2025
A team of undergraduates and their faculty adviser, consisting of Garrett Weber, Shayaan Gandhi and Paul Mittan, recently placed second overall against 65 other teams at Lockheed Martin's eighth annual Ethics in Engineering Competition.
3/27/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering has added 25 faculty members since February 2024. The four tenure-line faculty and 21 professional track faculty represent 10 units and departments.
3/24/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering’s Office of Corporate and Industry Engagement
invites engineering faculty to I-CONNECT: Intellectual Property and Innovation. The event will take place virtually and on campus at 504 Engineering Collaborative Research and Education
Building (ECoRE) from 12:30 – 2 p.m. ET on April 2.
2/18/2025
Ilya Kovalenko, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $689,000 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for a project titled, “Intelligent Products for Mass Individualization in Manufacturing Systems.”
2/15/2025
The Penn State Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation hosted its inaugural Student IdeaLab on the University Park campus in December 2024, bringing together a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students interested in shaping the future of the real estate and built environment sectors.
1/28/2025
Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, received a Mid-Career Investigator Award from the Chinese Association for Biomaterials (CAB).
1/23/2025
Three undergraduate members of the Penn State chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), Grace Bonnell, Julio Vasquez, and Gabriel Gayoso won the Academic Olympiad competition at the 50th Annual SHPE National Convention.
1/21/2025
The production of fuel cells requires the use of a rapid laser welding process; however, welding at too high a speed results in humping, marked by surface irregularities on the weld seam. A team led by researchers at Penn State has combined observation and analytical modeling to identify the conditions that produce humping at high laser welding speeds and to adjust the process parameters to increase weld speed without causing surface irregularities.
1/21/2025
Several engineering programs offered by Penn State World Campus were recently ranked as some of the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
1/15/2025
Industrial engineering doctoral candidate Kevin Mekulu has been named to the 2025 Forbes
30 Under 30 list in the category of health care. He was selected for his work in improving screening for cognitive impairment with his artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology, which he developed through his startup, DementiAnalytics.
1/15/2025
Big data has enabled numerous benefits for industries like health care, finance, consumer technology, insurance and cybersecurity. However, working with larger and larger datasets also increases numerical issues within the algorithms. To better understand these machine learning problems and design more efficient solutions, Necdet Serhat Aybat, associate professor of industrial engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering and expert on algorithms, will co-lead a three-year, $800,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research.
1/13/2025
The development of new drugs is critical in treating cancer — if people have access to them. A team co-led by Penn State researchers identified cancer drugs launched between 1990 and 2022 and found that counties with higher gross national income (GNI) per capita typically had more launches and shorter launch delays.
12/11/2024
The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) has announced the results of its most recent seed-funding competition, awarding 3 engineering professors and their team members' projects with funding.
11/18/2024
The Penn State Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase at the Bryce Jordan Center on Dec. 10 and its virtual showcase Wednesday, Dec. 11 through Friday, Dec. 20. Both versions of the event are free and open to the public.
11/15/2024
The Penn State College of Engineering invites alumni and friends to support engineering student success through a GivingTuesday gift on Dec. 3 as Penn State celebrates its tenth GivingTuesday.
11/15/2024
Katherine Marakovits' undergraduate research focuses on the connections between arts and science in the industry setting, and how educators can utilize art to improve engineering curriculum.
11/1/2024
Eight Penn State College of Engineering graduate students have received the Diefenderfer Graduate Fellowship in Entrepreneurship for the 2024-2025 academic year. The Diefenderfer Graduate Fellowship encourages and provides financial support to innovative and entrepreneurial graduate engineering students.
10/28/2024
Anshul Balamwar, a doctoral student in industrial engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, received a best track paper award in the Engineering Economy Division at the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers’ annual conference.
10/24/2024
Penn State’s Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation has awarded its inaugural seed grants. These grants are designed to support interdisciplinary research projects that foster collaboration led by Penn State researchers, aiming to make a significant impact on the future of the built environment and real estate practice.
10/14/2024
A team of engineering researchers led by Scarlett Miller, Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design and Manufacturing, was awarded a five-year, $1.4 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop and scale their inclusive student teaming model to multiple campuses and universities.
10/10/2024
The J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School at Penn State recognized 110 graduate students, including 20 College of Engineering students, as recipients of the 2024-2025 University Graduate Fellowships. These students were honored at a reception held in the Bryce Jordan Center on Oct. 3.
9/26/2024
The Schreyer Honors College “Following the Gong” podcast provides a glimpse into where life takes alumni following their time at Penn State and how their Penn State experiences shaped their career paths.
8/12/2024
Placing a central line in a patient’s vein to receive fluids or medicine is one of the most common medical procedures, with more than 5 million performed each year in the United States. Researchers in Penn State’s Colleges of Engineering and of Medicine aim to reduce error rates in central-line placement by designing and implementing a novel robotic training program that uses life-like manikins and real-time feedback to simulate patient scenarios.
8/5/2024
The Penn State research-based startup DementiAnalytics aims to revolutionize early detection and management of cognitive impairments through its AI-powered platform.
7/15/2024
As Penn State prepares for the public launch of a new fundraising campaign, a top volunteer for the effort has stepped forward with a seven-figure commitment. Greg Lucier, a 1986 industrial engineering graduate, will direct $5 million of his estate to the College of Engineering as an unrestricted commitment that can be used for his alma mater’s most urgent needs and opportunities.
7/9/2024
The Penn State Center for Immersive Experiences (CIE) aims to create a “convergence accelerator for research” across the commonwealth at Penn State, according to Jessica Menold, CIE director, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences co-hire and associate professor of mechanical engineering and of industrial and manufacturing engineering.
7/2/2024
The Social Science Research Institute’s Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction hosted its fifth annual conference in the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub at the University Park campus in April.
6/17/2024
The Richard King Mellon Foundation recently awarded $392,000 to two researchers at Penn State to build a strong science- and technology-focused (STF) workforce in the state’s Mon Valley region through collaboration and virtual, augmented and mixed reality trainings and tools.
6/13/2024
Scarlett Miller, professor of industrial engineering and of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering at Penn State, was recently appointed director of Penn State’s Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation.
6/10/2024
Russell Barton, Penn State professor of industrial engineering in the College of Engineering and distinguished professor of supply chain and information systems in the Smeal College of Business, authored a recently published textbook.
6/7/2024
A capstone course taught in the spring of 2024 focused specifically on adaptive technology, which is a device or piece of technology designed to provide physical or cognitive assistance.
5/28/2024
The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) and the Department of Defense will invest $4.4 million in several metals-based manufacturing programs at Penn State’s Behrend and University Park campuses, where researchers are creating workforce development programs that will strengthen the U.S. metal casting and forging industries.
5/3/2024
In 2020, the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation committed $15.5 million to create the A. James Clark Scholars Program in the College of Engineering to support high-achieving engineering students with significant financial need. This spring, the first cohort of A. James Clark Scholars will graduate from the Penn State College of Engineering.
4/30/2024
A project co-led by two Penn State professors has been selected to receive up to $815,959 from the Grid Deployment Office of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The team will evaluate prospective market design changes to efficiently integrate batteries and other unconventional resources into wholesale electricity markets, with the aim of improving electrical grid reliability.
4/25/2024
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2024 commencement ceremony.
4/17/2024
More than 5 million central lines are placed in patients who need prolonged drug delivery, such as those undergoing cancer treatments, in the United States every year, yet the common procedure can lead to a bevy of complications in almost a million of those cases. To help decrease the rate of infections, blood clots and other complications associated with placing a central line catheter, Penn State researchers developed an online curriculum coupled with a hands-on simulation training to provide trainee physicians with more practice.
4/17/2024
Soundar Kumara, the Allen E. Pearce and Allen M. Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering, won a Pearson Excellence in Higher Education Award in the digital pioneer category. The digital pioneer category honors an educator who uses “Pearson digital platform(s) to engage students and provide a personalized learning experience,” according to an award announcement.
4/4/2024
A team of Penn State undergraduate students were semi-finalists in Lockheed Martin’s seventh annual Ethics in Engineering Competition that took place Feb. 26-28 at Lockheed Martin’s headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.
