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International workshop drives collaboration for US-Indian defense innovation

9/18/2023

Penn State, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, hosted the first of a series of workshops on August 29 — the India-U.S. Defense Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X) Academia and Startup Programming Partnership — designed to share best practices and foster defense innovation translation through academic collaboration and startups.

Two Penn State engineering faculty receive top IEEE awards

9/1/2023

Two faculty members from the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science — William E. Leonhard Chair Professor Madhavan Swaminathan and Emerita Evan Pugh Professor Mary Jane Irwin — received Technical Field Awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Penn State receives $3M grant to address insect biodiversity crisis

8/28/2023

A team of Penn State researchers has received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to spearhead a new initiative to create novel monitoring systems for insect populations.

DNA sequence of the human Y chromosome fully determined for first time

8/23/2023

Paul Medvedev, professor of computer science and engineering and of biochemistry and molecular biology; and Marta Tomaszkiewicz, assistant research professor of biomedical engineering, are co-authors on a paper featured on Penn State News.

Five engineering student teams honored in national airport design competition

8/11/2023

Five student teams from Penn State’s Engineering Leadership Development program in the School of Engineering Design and Innovation earned recognition in the 17th-annual University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs, sponsored by the Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program.

Media mention: ‘Congress, state Legislature grapple with how to regulate AI’

8/8/2023

Mehrdad Mahdavi, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, discusses the need for artificial intelligence regulation from lawmakers that also allows for innovation and advancement in an article from LancasterOnline.

Mirror, mirror, who is the most efficient semiconductor of them all?

8/3/2023

This article originally appeared on Penn State News. It highlights work by researchers from Penn State’s Two-Dimensional Crystal Consortium-Materials Innovation Platform (2DCC-MIP) that may help speed development of 2D semiconductors. 2DCC-MIP is directed by Joan Redwing, professor of materials science and engineering and electrical engineering.

Top Penn State student teams reach final phase of Nittany AI Challenge

7/17/2023

Nine Penn State student teams are gaining hands-on experience as they work to use artificial intelligence (AI) for good to solve real-world problems in the areas of health, environment, education and humanitarianism in the 2023?Nittany AI Challenge.

Computer science student named College of Engineering student marshal

7/13/2023

Marshall Hart has been named the College of Engineering student marshal for Penn State's summer 2023 commencement ceremony, to be held on Aug. 12.

Workshop fosters partnerships to position U.S. as leader in semiconductors

7/11/2023

When President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS (Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors) and Science Act on Aug. 9, 2022, to accelerate U.S. manufacturing of semiconductors, Penn State took action. The University created the Mid-Atlantic Semiconductor Hub (MASH) with other academic partners, industry and state governments to lead and leverage the cumulative expertise in this area.

Nittany AI Alliance assists with streamlining Penn State application process

7/7/2023

Penn State students working with the Nittany AI Alliance, including a team from the College of Engineering, are sparking innovation at the University by exploring how artificial intelligence can help simplify the application and transfer process.

Penn State named partner in Northeast University Semiconductor Network

7/6/2023

Penn State was named one of 21 founding member institutions of Micron Technology’s newly formed Northeast University Semiconductor Network, established to prepare the next generation of the U.S. semiconductor industry’s workforce.

Penn State announces non-tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2023

6/30/2023

Non-tenure-line faculty promotions at Penn State, effective July 1, 2023, include more than 20 engineering faculty members.

NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant announces its 2023 fellowship, scholarship winners

6/29/2023

Fourteen graduate students from Penn State have been awarded research fellowships from the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium, including three from the College of Engineering.

Follow the leader: Researchers identify mechanism of cancer invasion

6/26/2023

A Penn State-led research team identified a molecular marker to predict the invasiveness of a cancerous tumor and how the cells may invade elsewhere in the body.

Media mention: ‘NASA: Challenge drives students to develop moon-friendly portable microwave system’

6/21/2023

Interesting Engineering published an article about the student team developing a portable microwave system for lunar construction applications in NASA’s Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge.

Penn State researchers develop digital test to directly measure HIV viral load

6/20/2023

A Penn State research team has developed a time and cost-efficient digital assay that can directly measure the presence of HIV in single drop of blood. It's the first step in producing a clinical diagnostic tool that can help physicians understand how patients are responding to anti-viral medications and monitor potential progression.

College of Engineering recognizes 2023 Early Career Award recipients

6/12/2023

The Penn State College of Engineering will recognize 10 alumni with the Early Career Award for their achievements and demonstrated commitment to their professions, communities and Penn State at a ceremony on June 16 at University Park.

NASA-funded student team builds microwave system to smelt metal on the moon

6/12/2023

A team of undergraduate students in Penn State’s Student Space Programs Laboratory, housed in the College of Engineering’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was one of seven university teams selected to receive funding from NASA to build a prototype in the BIG Idea Challenge. Penn State received $130,000 to develop a microwave system that can smelt metal on the moon.

Penn State announces tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2023

6/12/2023

Tenured and tenure-line faculty promotions at Penn State, effective July 1, 2023, include more than 25 engineering faculty members.

$3M grant to aid researchers testing pregnancy weight-management platform 

6/7/2023

A five-year, $3 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases will support testing of the Healthy Mom Zone, a personalized intervention designed to help pregnant women with high BMI stay within healthy weight-gain ranges.

Researchers developing smart ring for health care and extended reality 

5/31/2023

A team of researchers in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science aims to enable health care and extended reality — which encompasses virtual, augmented and mixed reality — with their smart sensing ring, OmniRing.

Elana and Robert Messina Honors Scholarship established for Schreyer Scholars

5/26/2023

A newly endowed scholarship will support Penn State Schreyer Honors College Scholars in the College of Engineering and the Smeal College of Business. A pledge from Scholar alumna Elana Messina and her husband, Robert Messina, an electrical engineering alumus, created the scholarship named in their honor.

Madhavan Swaminathan and Doug Werner named international AI association fellows

5/17/2023

Penn State Professors Madhavan Swaminathan and Doug Werner were selected as 2023 fellows by the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.

Penn State partners on $20M AI Institute for Societal Decision Making

5/15/2023

Funded with a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the new AI Institute for Societal Decision Making will improve the response to societal challenges such as disaster management and public health by creating human-centric AI tools to assist with critical decisions. Christopher Dancy, the Harold and Inge Marcus Industrial and Manufacturing Career Development Associate Professor in the Penn State College of Engineering, will lead one of the research thrusts of the institute.

Engineering graduate students named finalists at Microsoft Imagine Cup

5/12/2023

A group of Penn State computer science graduate students received international attention in March when they were declared world finalists at the Microsoft Imagine Cup, where students across the globe compete to create software applications to solve technical challenges.

Multidisciplinary studio course reaches new collaborative heights

5/3/2023

The CoLab, an upper-level architecture, architectural engineering and landscape architecture studio course, combines six disciplines in one studio experience where students learn from industry professionals.

Berks students take first place in Women in Engineering Design Competition

4/26/2023

Penn State Berks students Lillie Mohn, a mechanical engineering major, and Jenicy Strong, a computer engineering major, took first place in the fourth Women in Engineering Design Competition at Penn State Altoona.

Winners announced for 15th annual Competition Materials Visualization

4/26/2023

The winners of the 15th annual Materials Visualization Competition, a scientific visual and artistic competition sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State, have been announced.

College of Engineering names student marshals for spring 2023 commencement

4/25/2023

The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2023 commencement ceremony. One student is selected to represent each of the 14 majors associated with the college and the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program.

App to prevent allergy attacks wins first place in IdeaMakers Challenge

4/10/2023

An app that can help prevent allergy attacks when ordering meals from restaurants was the winning idea in the 2023 Bardusch Family IdeaMakers Challenge, held March 22 during Penn State Startup Week powered by PNC.

Electrical engineering honors society chapter earns national recognition

4/6/2023

Penn State’s Epsilon Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the student honors society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, was selected to receive the 2021-22 Outstanding Chapter Award.

Penn State team to participate in NASA's Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project

4/6/2023

A team co-led by the Penn State Student Space Programs Lab has been selected as one of 70 teams to participate in the 2023-24 Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project, co-sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation.

Seven graduate students recognized with University awards

4/6/2023

Forty Penn State graduate students, seven of whom are students in the College of Engineering, were named recipients of Penn State’s annual graduate student awards, administered by the Graduate School in collaboration with several Penn State units.

Mathematical model provides bolt of understanding for lightning-produced X-rays 

3/30/2023

A Penn State-led team has discovered a new physical mechanism explaining naturally occurring X-rays associated with lightning activity in the Earth’s atmosphere.

The Microbiome Center announces a free bioinformatics resource for Penn State

3/29/2023

The? Penn State Microbiome Center, in coordination with the lab of David Koslicki, associate professor of computer science and engineering and of biology and a co-hire of the Huck Institute of the Life Sciences at Penn State, is offering access to the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes to all Penn State faculty, staff and students for free.

Registration opens for electrical engineering and computer science summer camps

3/28/2023

The Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science’s summer camps are back for another year of in-person, hands-on learning! Both camps are geared toward girls but open to participants of all identities.

Electrical engineering student’s contributions highlighted by NASA

3/27/2023

Veena Sreekantamurthy, an electrical engineering master’s student, spent the summer interning in NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation Internship Project (SIP). A journal published by NASA highlighted the contributions made by Sreekantamurthy and other SIP interns.

Five student startups win funding in Inc.U Competition

3/24/2023

Undergraduate students from the College of Engineering at Penn State were among the winners of the 2023 Invent Penn State Inc.U Competition.

Penn State Smeal, engineering students collaborate to excel in case competition

3/23/2023

A unique collaboration between a student from the Penn State Smeal College of Business and a student from the College of Engineering’s Engineering Leadership Development Program produced a successful result in the Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering Case Competition.

Christos Argyropoulos receives international electrodynamics award

3/22/2023

Christos Argyropoulos, Penn State associate professor of electrical engineering and associate research professor in the Applied Research Laboratory, is the recipient of the 2023 European Association on Antennas and Propagation Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics.

Penn State team awarded National Science Foundation I-Corps grant

3/16/2023

A trio of Penn State researchers were selected for the National Science Foundation’s National I-Corps Program to offer a foundry service for manufacturing sensors and integrated circuits made of two-dimensional materials for use in a variety of industries, including Internet of Things applications, food processing, pharmaceutical and various defense needs.

Leonhard Center speaking contest showcases students’ communication skills

3/10/2023

The Penn State College of Engineering’s Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education held its biannual speaking contest on Feb. 7, showcasing students’ skills in translating technical knowledge into engaging presentations.

Media mention: ‘New pancake-sized flat metalens is powerful enough to image the moon’?

3/10/2023

Research led by Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Penn State, to develop the first ultrathin, compact metalens telescope was featured by Interesting Engineering.

Eleven alumni to receive College of Engineering's highest honor

3/8/2023

Eleven Penn State engineering graduates have been selected to receive the College of Engineering’s Outstanding Engineering Alumni Awards. The ceremony will take place on March 13 at The Penn Stater.

Electrical engineering alumna delivers keynote at TEDxPSU event

3/6/2023

Renee Frohnert, Penn State electrical engineering alumna, was an invited speaker at the TEDxPSU annual conference on Feb. 12 in Schwab Auditorium.

Five engineers recognized with NSF early career awards

3/6/2023

Five faculty members in Penn State’s College of Engineering were recognized with National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. Each project ranges in duration from three and a half to five years, funded by grants worth roughly $500,000.

2023 NSF CAREER Award: Aida Ebrahimi

3/3/2023

Aida Ebrahimi, Thomas and Sheila Roell Early Career Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $500,000 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Tunable Graphene Microdevices for Multiplexed Detection of Biomolecules Beyond Diffusion Limit.”

2023 NSF CAREER Award: Christopher Dancy

3/3/2023

Christopher Dancy, Harold and Inge Marcus Industrial and Manufacturing Career Development Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and of Computer Science and Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $581,257 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “SocioCulturally Competent Agents to Study and Improve Human-AI Interaction.”?

2023 NSF CAREER Award: Syed Rafiul Hussain

3/3/2023

Syed Rafiul Hussain, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, earned a five-year, $557,183 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Principled approaches to securing next-generation cellular networks.”

First compact, flat metalens images moon surface

3/3/2023

Astronomers and amateurs alike know the bigger the telescope, the more powerful the imaging capability. To keep the power but streamline one of the bulkier components, a Penn State-led research team created the first ultrathin, compact metalens telescope capable of imaging far-away objects, including the moon.

Penn State names seven new distinguished professors for 2023

2/15/2023

Penn State's Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs has named seven distinguished professors for 2023. Pingjuan Werner, distinguished professor of engineering at Penn State DuBois, was honored with the title.

17 new faculty members join the College of Engineering

2/14/2023

Seventeen new faculty members have joined the Penn State College of Engineering since early fall 2022. The 12 tenured or tenure-line faculty and six professional track faculty represent 11 units and departments and include one new department head.

Compliant mechanism-enabled, reconfigurable antennas facilitate future technology

2/13/2023

Reconfigurable antennas are integral to future communication network systems, like 6G, but many current designs fall short. Penn State electrical engineering researchers combined electromagnets with a compliant mechanism to create a proof-of-concept reconfigurable compliant mechanism-enabled patch antenna that addresses current industry limitations.

$50,000 Intel grant awarded to develop course on quantum computing

2/1/2023

Technology company Intel awarded Penn State $50,000 to develop a three-credit college course on programming quantum computers. Swaroop Ghosh, Penn State associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will serve as principal investigator.

Rongming Chu awarded Department of Defense grant for semiconductor research

1/30/2023

Rongming Chu, associate professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was awarded a $191,650 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense. The grant, part of the $59 million Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), will be used to equip Chu’s power semiconductor device characterization lab.

Ram Narayanan named distinguished alumnus by alma mater

1/24/2023

Ram Narayanan, professor of electrical engineering in Penn State’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was named one of 11 recipients of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras’s (IIT Madras) 2023 Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Engineering associate dean honored with distinguished service award

1/23/2023

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, the Penn State College of Engineering’s associate dean for innovation and the A. Robert Noll Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, was honored with the distinguished service award by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Design Automation.

$1.8M NSF grant funds project to improve construction worker safety on sites

1/13/2023

With a four-year, $1,800,000 National Science Foundation grant, Houtan Jebelli, assistant professor of architectural engineering, is leading a research team to develop an artificial intelligence-enabled, real-time and context-aware holistic health monitoring approach for construction workers.

Penn State partners on $50.5M computing center

1/10/2023

Penn State is partnering with nine other universities to establish the Processing with Intelligent Storage and Memory center, led by the University of California San Diego.

Media mention: ‘More Than $250 Million To Be Invested In Seven University Microelectronic Research Centers’

1/6/2023

Forbes highlighted Penn State’s newly created $32.7 million Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES) in an article discussing universities across the country that have created microelectronic research centers as part of the Joint University Microelectronics Program (JUMP 2.0) initiative.

Penn State leads semiconductor packaging, heterogeneous integration center

1/5/2023

The Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0, a consortium of industrial partners in cooperation with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has announced the creation of a $32.7 million, Penn State-led Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES).

Ram Narayanan serves as expert panelist for AI discussion

12/13/2022

Ram Narayanan, professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, served as an expert panelist for a virtual discussion of the topic “What’s the next big question in artificial intelligence?”

National Academy of Inventors names three Penn Staters as 2022 fellows

12/8/2022

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named Justin Schwartz, Madhavan Swaminathan and Douglas Werner as fellows, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan named college’s associate dean for innovation

12/7/2022

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, A. Robert Noll Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, will become the Penn State College of Engineering’s associate dean for innovation on Jan. 1.

Hussain earns NSF grant to make data centers more sustainable

12/2/2022

Syed Rafiul Hussain, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was awarded a four-year, $206,598 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a collaborator on a project to make data centers more sustainable.

Researchers to address new challenges in power grid with computational modeling

12/2/2022

Yan Li, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, was awarded a three-year, $429,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop computational tools to address new challenges arising in the modeling and control of the modern power grid.

Electrical engineering professor named Radio Club of America fellow

12/1/2022

James Breakall, professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was named a fellow of the Radio Club of America, a society of wireless communications professionals founded in 1909.

Engineers improve electrochemical sensing by incorporating machine learning

11/23/2022

Combining machine learning with multimodal electrochemical sensing can significantly improve the analytical performance of biosensors, according to new findings from a Penn State research team. These improvements may benefit non-invasive health monitoring, such as testing that involves saliva or sweat.

Electrical engineering student named fall 2022 College of Engineering student marshal

11/18/2022

Lixian Yan has been named the fall 2022 student marshal for the Penn State College of Engineering. She will receive her bachelor of science with a double major in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science within the College of Engineering and in physics (electronics option) from the Eberly College of Science.

NSF Convergence Accelerator program team includes Penn State researchers

11/18/2022

An IBM-led team that includes three Penn State faculty members was selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as one of 16 multidisciplinary teams for the Convergence Accelerator program 2022 cohort for the research topic “Track G: Securely Operating Through 5G Infrastructure.”

Undergraduate student receives best poster presentation at national workshop

11/18/2022

Third-year electrical engineering undergraduate student Michael Artlip received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the eighth National Workshop for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Research in Network and Systems.

Electrical engineer explores quantum computing for renewable power systems

11/3/2022

Yan Li, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, was awarded a three-year, $510,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to develop quantum computing algorithms to explore operational mechanisms of nonlinear power systems and computational resources needed for renewable energy applications.

Media mention: ‘The White House’s ‘AI Bill of Rights’ outlines five principles'

10/28/2022

Christopher Dancy, Harold and Inge Marcus Industrial and Manufacturing Career Development Associate Professor, wrote an article that appeared on The Conversation, an online source of news stories and research reports with accompanying expert opinion and analysis.

Penn State researchers to explore using quantum computers to design new drugs

10/26/2022

A team of Penn State researchers received a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to study the use of quantum computer-based artificial intelligence (AI) to see if quantum computers can bring drugs to patients faster and cheaper.

Camp to campus: A first-year student’s path to engineering

10/12/2022

Madylene Triplett first stepped onto a Penn State campus when she was 13 to attend summer camps hosted by the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. During the camps, she programmed robots, designed and built a vacuum and spoke with women engineers from NASA, Google and elsewhere. Now, she is on her way to becoming one of those engineers herself, as she steps back onto a Penn State campus, this time as a first-year student.

Natural language processing software evaluates middle school science essays

10/11/2022

In two recent papers, computer scientists at Penn State created and vetted the effectiveness of natural language processing software known as PyrEval-CR for assessing middle school students’ science essays.

Sensors can tap into mobile vibrations to eavesdrop remotely, researchers find

10/7/2022

Using an off-the-shelf automotive radar sensor and a novel processing approach, Penn State researchers demonstrated they could detect the vibrations of a cell phone’s earpiece and decipher what the person on the other side of the call was saying with up to 83% accuracy.

28 new faculty members join the College of Engineering

10/6/2022

Twenty-eight new faculty members have joined the Penn State College of Engineering since the end of the spring semester. The 17 tenured or tenure-line members and 11 non-tenure-line members represent 12 units and departments and include two new department heads.

Improving heart health with an app: Study aims to get young adults moving

9/28/2022

Penn State researchers have received a $3.6 million, five-year grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study how to increase young adults’ physical activity and decrease their weight gain through personalized messages that encourage people to move more and sit less. Fitbit smartwatches, a smartphone app and internet-connected scales will gather data without significant disruption to participants’ lives.

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