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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.
5/13/2025
Penn State’s AI Week showcased the latest research on artificial intelligence (AI) systems and tools, with a specific focus on their applications across K-12 and higher education.
5/6/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2025 commencement ceremony, which will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, May 9, in the Bryce Jordan Center at University Park.
5/5/2025
Schreyer Honors College has announced its 2024–25 award recipients, recognizing seven Scholars and two faculty members for their academic excellence and contributions to the college's mission.
4/25/2025
Penn State researchers have developed a cold sintering process that enables low-temperature, energy-efficient production of solid-state electrolytes for batteries, improving safety, conductivity, and scalability. The technique could accelerate the development of high-performance batteries for electric vehicles and electronics, while also offering potential in broader manufacturing applications.
4/24/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering will recognize 21 alumni with the 2025 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award and Early Career Award in a ceremony on April 24 in the new Engineering Collaborative Research and Education (ECoRE) Building.
4/24/2025
A research team led by Hongtao Sun, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, published a paper investigating the use of an advanced manufacturing technology in the development of solid-state batteries. They published their research in an article featured in Materials Today Energy.
4/23/2025
The Penn State Learning Factory will host its biannual end-of-semester showcase for engineering students to present their cornerstone and capstone design projects from 1-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29, at the Bryce Jordan Center. The?virtual showcase?will take place Wednesday, April 30, through Friday, May 9.
4/11/2025
Over 100 students from Blue Ridge, Scranton and Wallenpaupack Area high schools recently visited Penn State Scranton for Discover Engineering Day, a collaborative event by the Penn State Engineering Ambassadors Program and Penn State Scranton and University students, faculty and staff
4/10/2025
The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers selected “Additive Manufacturing with Metals,” a book authored by one Penn State industrial engineering faculty member and three faculty members formerly affiliated with Penn State, the 2025 IISE/Joint Publishers Book of the Year award.
4/4/2025
Penn State recognized 42 graduate students, including eight from the College of Engineering, with annual University awards that celebrate students' impact in research, scholarship, teaching, outreach, mentoring and more.
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.
3/31/2025
A team of researchers at Penn State are following a “selective learning” approach — where scientists only collect data needed for a specific problem, instead of collecting all available data and sorting through to find what applies to a problem — to make artificial intelligence (AI)-powered systems like unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) more efficient.
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.
