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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.
3/3/2025
The latest episode of Growing Impact discusses how environmental contaminants affect human health, a research focus for Penn State professors Andrew Patterson and Costas Maranas.
3/3/2025
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has named Hee Jueng Oh, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, a Young Observer.
2/5/2025
Scott Milner, the William H. Joyce Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected to receive the 2025 Polymer Physics Prize by the American Physics Society. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishment and excellence of contributions in polymer physics research.
2/3/2025
Penn State engineers developed a bio-based, "living" material that mimics certain behaviors within biological tissues, a potential step forward for advance regenerative medicine, disease modeling, soft robotics and more.
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.
12/12/2024
Gina Noh, associate professor of chemical engineering, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Michael and Nikki Griffin Early Career Professorship. This new initiative recognizes faculty members in the early stages of their career, and grants them funding to continue their research at Penn State.
12/4/2024
Ten graduate students from eight academic programs, including three students studying in the College
of Engineering, have been named finalists for the 2024-25 Penn State Three
Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
12/3/2024
Six Penn State materials researchers, including three affiliated with the College of Engineering, have received the 2024 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award, recognizing a wide range of research with societal impact.
11/19/2024
Angie Castro, a chemical engineering doctoral student, was recognized with an award at the American Institute for Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) annual poster session. Castro rose above 90+ other entries to be recognized as the second place winner of the Materials Engineering & Sciences Division (MESD).
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.
11/13/2024
A simple biomaterial-based strategy that can influence the behavior of cells could pave the way for more effective medical treatments such as wound healing, cancer therapy and even organ regeneration, according to a research team at Penn State.
11/12/2024
Stephanie Velegol, associate department head and teaching professor of chemical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, received the Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Teaching Practice from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
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.
10/23/2024
From the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building on Shortlidge Road to offices, labs and classrooms around the globe, nearly 10,000 alumni, 500 undergraduate and graduate students, and 45 faculty, post-doctoral candidates and staff call the Penn State Department of Chemical Engineering (CHE) home. This year, the department is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of a chemical engineering degree program at Penn State in 1924-25 and the first 11 chemical engineering bachelor’s degrees granted in May 1925.
10/9/2024
In the final round of the first Penn State Three Minute Thesis competition in March 2024, 11 graduate students took the stage at the Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center to show off their research, represent themselves, and compete for both prize money and the opportunity to compete in a regional 3MT competition
10/7/2024
Hee Jeung Oh, assistant professor of chemical engineering and of materials science and engineering at Penn State, has been named the 2024 recipient of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Separations Division’s Fractionation Research Inc./John G. Kunesh Award.
9/24/2024
Penn State researchers have developed a new nanoparticle that can prevent mineral buildup in oil extraction equipment and stabilize a commonly used emulsion, or liquid mixture. This development has the potential to make the oil extraction processes more efficient and less harmful to the environment, according to the team.
9/23/2024
Bert Chandler, professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at Penn State, is one of 11 distinguished researchers recognized by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement as a recipient of the 2024 Cottrell Plus SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery) Award.
9/17/2024
Winters K. Guo, a doctoral student in chemical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, recently won first place in a graduate student paper contest at the American Chemical Society’s national fall meeting.
9/12/2024
Nine Penn State researchers, including three from the College of Engineering, have been named fellows of the Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE) for 2024.
9/10/2024
Kristen Fichthorn, the Merrell Fenske Professor of Chemical Engineering and professor of physics, has been invited to give a Symposium X Lecture at the Materials Research Society’s spring meeting, which will be held on April 7-11, 2025, in Seattle.
9/4/2024
Ray Schaak, DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Penn State Eberly College of Science and professor of chemical engineering, has been awarded the 2025 F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistryfrom the American Chemical Society (ACS).
8/12/2024
Gina Noh, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, was recognized as Young Talent at an international conference on catalysis.
7/11/2024
The Institute of Energy and the Environment has announced an update to its research themes. The change is to better align three of the research themes with the energy and environmental research being done at Penn State, and with efforts to recognize the importance of community and justice.
7/8/2024
A team of Penn State chemical engineering researchers has reconfigured the design of solid-state lithium batteries so that all their components can be easily recycled.
6/21/2024
Earlier this year, Penn State's Women in Engineering Program was honored with the Women in Engineering Program Award by the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, in which it was recognized as “an outstanding women in engineering program that serves as a model for other institutions.”
5/29/2024
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering, was invited to serve as a member of the Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section of the Bioengineering Sciences & Technologies Integrated Review Group, which is part of the Center of Scientific Review for the National Institutes of Health.
5/3/2024
In three recent papers, Penn State researchers outline new uses for cold sintering— the process of combining powder-based materials into dense forms at low temperatures through applied pressure using solvents — that allows materials to be recycled again and again.
4/25/2024
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2024 commencement ceremony.
4/23/2024
Six members of the College of Engineering are among the winners of the 16th annual Materials Visualization Competition (MVC), a scientific visual and artistic competition sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE) and the Materials Research Institute (MRI) at Penn State.
3/28/2024
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering at Penn State, received the 2024 PMSE Early Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering.
