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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.
10/24/2025
Penn State researchers are drawing inspiration from honey bee colonies to improve the resilience of electric grids by enabling energy devices to communicate and share power directly, similar to how bees coordinate resources in a hive. Led by Wangda Zuo and funded by a $1 million NSF Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research award, the project aims to build smarter, more adaptable peer-to-peer energy networks.
10/22/2025
Third-year Schreyer Scholar Morgan Dawkins has been unwavering in her childhood dream of designing buildings and her enthusiasm for innovation. Now, she said, she’s realizing that goal as part of the Integrated Undergraduate-Graduate Program (IUG) in Architectural Engineering.
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.
10/17/2025
Four Penn State researchers, including two from the College of Engineering, have been selected as 2025 fellows of the Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE). The IEE Fellowship Program recognizes researchers whose work has significantly advanced energy and environmental research and provides support to further their efforts.
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.
9/9/2025
Kathryn Hinkelman, a recent Ph.D. graduate from Penn State, received the 2025 IBPSA Godfried Augenbroe Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis for her dissertation on biomimicry and district energy systems. She is now an assistant professor at the University of Vermont.
8/25/2025
Julian Wang, professor of architectural engineering, is the principal investigator on a project funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Healthy Homes Program that seeks to develop and improve heatwave resistance in residential housing. Supported by a $1 million, three-year grant, Wang and his team are working with community organizations to develop a system that pinpoints the vulnerabilities leaving residents and their homes at risk during extreme weather events like heatwaves.
8/6/2025
Penn State Professor of Architectural Engineering Wangda Zuo discusses how he collaborates with
international teams to implement research findings in the real world.
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.
6/13/2025
Several engineering-focused research projects at Penn State have received GAP Fund support to accelerate the commercialization of innovations in areas such as energy-efficient data centers, advanced manufacturing, electronic waste recycling and smart drilling materials. By bridging the gap between academic discovery and industry adoption, these projects highlight engineering’s critical role in developing scalable solutions to global technological and sustainability challenges.
6/4/2025
Jin Wen has been named a 2024 Top Scholar by ScholarGPS, placing in the top 0.5% of scholars worldwide for lifetime contributions to research in building energy, environmental systems, and energy. This recognition highlights Wen’s global impact in sustainable engineering and high-impact scholarship.
5/27/2025
Fragrances and lotions don't just change the way people smell, they actively alter the indoor air chemistry around the wearer, disrupting a critical natural process the body uses to protect itself from pollution, according to an international research team that includes scientists from Penn State.
5/19/2025
Viswanathan Ganesh, a doctoral student in architectural engineering at Penn State, received the 2025-26 ASHRAE Graduate Student Grant-In-Aid Award for his research on machine learning-based HVAC control for data centers. He has also been recognized with multiple fellowships and scholarships for academic excellence.
5/19/2025
Penn State’s Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation has awarded seed grants to five interdisciplinary research projects. These grants support collaborative projects led by Penn State faculty who aim to generate innovative solutions to complex challenges in real estate and the built environment.
5/19/2025
Wangda Zuo, professor at Penn State, has been named the 2024 Outstanding Associate Editor of the Year by ASME for his exceptional editorial contributions to the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. The award recognizes his dedication to maintaining high standards in peer-reviewed research and advancing the field of solar energy.
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
Professor Jin Wen has been named head of Penn State’s Department of Architectural Engineering, effective August 1. Wen follows Professor Jim Freihaut, who has served as interim head since January 2023. Wen will step down from her current position as interim vice dean for research, innovation and faculty advancement and professor of civil, architectural, and environmental engineering for the College of Engineering at Drexel University. for the College of Engineering at Drexel University.
4/25/2025
Penn State has announced the 2025 student winners of its annual sustainability awards, recognizing outstanding contributions to environmental and social sustainability across campus. Honorees include recipients of the John Roe Sustainability Impact Award for initiatives ranging from food security to climate advocacy and sustainability-focused filmmaking.
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.
4/23/2025
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.
4/14/2025
Jonathan U. Dougherty has been honored with the Outstanding Service Award from the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School, which recognizes alumni who have achieved professional success while demonstrating significant service to the University and the Penn State Alumni Association
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.
4/4/2025
Thirty-one graduate students, including four from the College of Engineering, received awards at the 2025 Graduate Exhibition, hosted by the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School on Friday, March 28, on the University Park campus.
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.
3/26/2025
Ali Memari, professor of civil and environmental engineering and of architectural engineering, the Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction and director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center, discusses potential solutions to the U.S. housing crisis in an article published by AP News.
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.
3/21/2025
High school students interested in learning how modern buildings go from a dream to reality are invited to the new Building Our Future Summer Camp this summer.
3/13/2025
NexDCCool Technologies, a Penn State research-based startup launched by Wangda Zuo’s, Penn State professor of architectural engineering in the College of Engineering and associate director for research at the Global Building Network lab, is developing a platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that aims to optimize the cooling systems in data centers, helping them maximize IT capacity by reducing cooling demand.
3/10/2025
Kenan Ünlü, director of the Radiation Science and Engineering Center and professor of nuclear engineering, has been named a member of the Laboratory Assessments Board by the National Academy of Sciences for Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Center for Neutron Research.
2/21/2025
Nathan Brown, assistant professor of architectural engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $587,000 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for a project titled, “Active Designer-Computer Collaborative Conceptual Design Using Data-driven Models.”
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).
