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2/25/2026
Qiming Zhang, professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, has been named the recipient of the 2026 SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing his significant and sustained contributions to the field.
2/23/2026
Qiming Zhang, Harvey F. Brush Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering, is one of two Penn State faculty members who has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Barbara J. Arnold, chair and professor of practice of mining engineering in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, is also a member of the class of 2026.
2/18/2026
The School of Engineering Design & Innovation’s (SEDI) Engineering Entrepreneurship (E-SHIP) program is hosting a hackathon event, “c0mpiled-6/pennstate” on Friday, Feb. 27 from 4:00 – 11:00 PM in the Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI) building.
2/18/2026
Lion-0xA, a team of Penn State students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and the College of Engineering’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), is one of 10 global finalists in the Amazon Nova AI Challenge, an annual university competition dedicated to accelerating the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
2/18/2026
a team led by Penn State researchers reported a novel material made of cheap, commercially available plastics that can handle four times the energy of a typical capacitor at temperatures up to 482 F.
2/17/2026
The Penn State College of Engineering has welcomed nine new faculty members across multiple departments, including several former postdoctoral scholars who have transitioned into faculty roles. These appointments strengthen the college’s research and teaching mission while reinforcing its commitment to investing in emerging talent.
2/16/2026
Penn State's Office of Faculty Affairs has named 14 new distinguished professors for 2026, including Ram Narayanan of the electrical engineering department and Gang “Gary” Tan of the computer science and engineering department.
2/11/2026
A key problem facing artificial intelligence (AI) development is the vast amount of energy the technology requires, with some experts projecting AI datacenters to be responsible for over 13% of global electricity usage by 2028. According to Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering at the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the key to addressing this roadblock could lie in computers powered by light instead of circuitry.
2/9/2026
A Penn State undergraduate team advanced to the ICPC North American Championship after placing sixth and earning a bronze medal at the 2025 East Central North American regional competition, qualifying for a chance to compete for a spot in the ICPC World Finals.
2/9/2026
The Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE) has recognized eight Penn State researchers, including six from the College of Engineering, for outstanding contributions to energy and environmental research, scholarship and mentorship. Selected through nominations from across the Penn State community, the awardees are honored for their collaborative, interdisciplinary work and their commitment to mentoring students and colleagues.
2/6/2026
Vinay Kammarchedu, a Penn State electrical engineering doctoral student advised by Aida Ebrahimi, has been selected as a 2026 iREDEFINE Fellow. He will participate in a national professional development workshop alongside the ECEDHA Annual Conference, where he will present his work and engage in faculty-career preparation activities.
2/4/2026
The Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education has announced the winners of its inaugural Arts and Engineering Competition. The competition celebrates the creativity and innovation at the intersection of art and engineering.
1/27/2026
Eugene Kwek, an undergraduate student in computer science, has received an honorable mention in the 2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards from the Computing Research Association (CRA).
1/27/2026
Graduate student Ziheng Fu (Penn State) and Saurav Roy (Indian Institute of Science) received 2nd Place in the Best Student Paper category at the IEEE MAPCON conference. Their award-winning research highlights the collaborative efforts between Penn State and IISc in advancing electrical engineering innovation.
1/14/2026
Swaroop Ghosh, professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, has been invited to serve as an associate editor for ACM Computing Surveys. In this role, he will oversee peer review, recruit reviewers, and make editorial recommendations for one of the leading journals in computing research.
1/14/2026
The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) has announced the results of its most recent seed-funding competition. The center awarded more than $152,000 to seven interdisciplinary research projects representing six colleges, including two projects involving College of Engineering faculty.
1/13/2026
Koustubh Phalak, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering at Penn State, has been named to the 2025 BITS Global 30 Under 30 list in the Research Leadership category. The recognition honors his contributions to quantum computing research, including optimization, error correction and quantum machine learning.
1/9/2026
Christos Argyropoulos, an associate professor of electrical engineering, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, an honor reserved for fewer than 0.1% of IEEE voting members each year. He was recognized “for contributions to the investigation of electromagnetic phenomena in metamaterials and nanophotonics.”
1/9/2026
Xingjie Ni, an associate professor of electrical engineering, has been elected a Fellow Member of Optica, an honor reserved for no more than ten percent of the society’s membership. He is being recognized “for pioneering contributions to the areas of metasurfaces and nanophotonics.”
1/7/2026
The Penn State College of Engineering community mourns the loss of civil engineering alumnus Rick Merluzzi, class of 1979, who died on Oct. 27, 2025. Throughout his life, Merluzzi gave back to the Penn State engineering community through time, treasure and talent. In particular, he and his wife, Kathryn, established the Rick and Kathryn Merluzzi Fund to support first-generation undergraduate engineering students and also provided support to students in the Engineering Leadership Development (ELD) program.
1/7/2026
Two Penn State professors were named to the 2025 class of fellows by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI): Swaroop Ghosh, professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), and Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine. Only a relatively small group of academic inventors receive this honor, which is considered the highest professional distinction, each year. They will be officially inducted at the 15th Annual NAI Conference on June 4 in Los Angeles.
1/6/2026
Quantum computers could become a prime target for malicious hackers, according to Swaroop Ghosh, professor of computer science and of electrical engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Suryansh Upadhyay, who recently received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Penn State. They recently authored a paper, set to publish in the Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, highlighting the need to develop new defense mechanisms covering not just the software and programs running on these systems, but the physical components that power them.
1/5/2026
A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to design metasurfaces, a class of engineered materials used in advanced optical systems like camera lenses, virtual reality headsets, holographic imagers and more. The method, which was featured on the cover of the October issue of Nanophotonics, uses large language models (LLMs) to accurately predict how a metasurface will influence light, making it possible for engineers to quickly design these nanoscopic materials and predict how they will influence light solely through prompts fed to AI.
12/22/2025
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named Swaroop Ghosh, professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), a fellow. This is the highest professional distinction available for academic inventors, awarded to only a select group of outstanding professionals each year. Ghosh will be officially inducted alongside the rest of the 2025 fellows class at the 15th Annual NAI Conference on June 4 in Los Angeles.
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.
12/8/2025
Harshim Saluja, a junior majoring in computational data science at Penn State, was named one of five global winners in Bridgewater Associates’ Forecasting the Future: A Modern Economics Challenge. Her data-driven forecast on “Modern Mercantilism” used computational modeling and economic visualization to predict how technology and trade will reshape global power through 2035.
12/8/2025
Shagufta Mehnaz, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State, received a five year, $632,430 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her project, “Privacy Auditing Frameworks and Defenses for Machine Learning Models Trained on Tabular Data.”
12/7/2025
Six materials researchers at Penn State, including three from the College of Engineering, have received the 2025 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award, recognizing a wide range of research with societal impact. The award is presented by the Materials Research Institute (MRI) for recent interdisciplinary materials research at Penn State that yields innovative and unexpected results.
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.
12/5/2025
The Quantum Hub, housed under the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), has awarded Quantum SuperSEED grants to three Penn State faculty research teams. All three teams include researchers from the College of Engineering.
11/24/2025
A team of researchers at Penn State, including Vijaykrishnan Narayanan and Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, recently developed a smartphone application that offers support specifically tailored to visually impaired people’s needs.They received Best Audience Choice Poster Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGACCESS ASSETS ‘25 conference on Oct. 26-29 in Denver.
11/20/2025
The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) has awarded 20 fellowships to University faculty, including seven to College of Engineering faculty, through its Faculty Upskilling Fellowships in artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum sciences program. The program seeks to provide faculty members with the opportunity to learn new skills and to focus on professional development.
11/20/2025
Two researchers at Penn State, Rui Zhang and Ranran Haoran Zhang, are working on a project awarded $166,078 from Open Philanthropy to better mitigate sandbagging — attempting to look less capable or powerful — in AI models. In a Q&A, Rui Zhang explained how without preparing for AIs feigning ignorance, the dream of an AI-integrated society could quickly turn into a nightmare.
11/17/2025
Penn State has named William Donato Jr. and Kathryn Donato, Penn State graduates and current co-chairs of the Schreyer Honors College campaign committee, and Donald Furmanski Jr. and Janet Furmanski, longtime volunteers and philanthropists to areas across the University, as the 2025 Fundraising Volunteers of the Year.
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.
10/27/2025
Three Penn State electrical engineering graduate students — Tyler Burns, Connor Haney and Wolfgang VonGetzie — received Directed Energy Professional Society Graduate Scholar Awards for their outstanding research in high-power microwave technologies and contributions to the university’s new Center for Excellence in Directed Energy.
10/22/2025
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Rômulo Meira-Góes, assistant professor of electrical engineering, and Wangda Zuo, professor of architectural engineering, a three-year, $340,000 grant to develop a novel fault detection and diagnostics system capable of detecting and preparing data centers for unexpected failures like cyberattacks.
10/20/2025
A team of researchers from Penn State and the University of Illinois Chicago has been awarded $900,000 from the U.S. National Science Foundation to employ biomedical research, clinical data, advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and mathematical modeling methods to ultimately support personalized medicine for people with Alzheimer’s disease.
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.
10/3/2025
A team of researchers at Penn State has been selected to receive an award worth up to $5 million award through the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) program, an initiative to develop innovative semiconductor systems for the evolving demands of modern technology. Penn State will cost share up to an additional $2.5 million for this project, totaling $7.5 million in funding.
9/29/2025
A group of computational biologists in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science analyzed the genomic sequences of 46 mammals to draw conclusions about how genetic variation affects immune function. They published their analysis in Molecular Biology and Evolution.
9/23/2025
Ramin Rahimzadeh Khorasani, a Penn State electrical engineering graduate student, won the Best Poster Award in the Power Delivery Session at the CHIMES Annual Review. His poster presented a high voltage ratio integrated voltage regulator for 1000–2000?W vertical power delivery.
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.
9/17/2025
The Penn State-led Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES) held its third annual review on Aug. 26-27 at University Park.
9/15/2025
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State has selected eight research teams that span 12 departments across six colleges to receive 2025-26 seed grant funding. Three of the eight teams are led by College of Engineering faculty, and an additional three teams have College of Engineering collaborators.
9/11/2025
Abhronil Sengupta, associate professor at Penn State, has been awarded the 2025 IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award for his impactful contributions to neuromorphic computing system design. He will be honored at the ICCAD conference in Munich in October 2025.
8/22/2025
The Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team (AVT) took home multiple wins, including fourth place overall, in its fourth year of the AutoDrive Challenge II, which took place June 1-7 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sponsored by SAE International and General Motors, the competition tasks student teams with developing and testing a fully autonomous passenger vehicle on a controlled urban driving course.
8/20/2025
This fall, Penn State will launch a new bachelor of science in artificial intelligence engineering (AIE) degree, one of the first of its kind in the country. The program, housed in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) within the College of Engineering, will be focused on foundations of AI, encompassing both hardware and software, in addition to applications of AI.
8/8/2025
“Wireless tapping” is an emerging form of surveillance where full conversations can be remotely deciphered from the vibrations produced by a mobile phone’s earpiece. With the goal of protecting people’s privacy from potential bad actors, a team of computer science researchers at Penn State demonstrated that full sentences — up to 10,000 words — can be gleaned with 60% accuracy up to three meters, or almost 10 feet, from a caller.
8/1/2025
Dong Xie, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, and collaborators won a Best Paper Award at the 2025 ACM SIGMOD Conference for their work on reducing latency in transaction scheduling using a novel userspace interrupt-based approach. The method enables lightweight preemption for more efficient handling in high-performance data systems.
7/31/2025
Penn State researchers won the Best Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE ISVLSI Quantum Workshop for their work on "Q-Fusion," a new method that enhances the efficiency and security of quantum circuits. The recognition highlights the team's continued leadership in quantum computing and hardware security research.
7/30/2025
Rui Zhang, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, and his research group recently authored three papers introducing new approaches to processing high-resolution images and automatically prompting better responses from AI systems.
7/30/2025
A team led by researchers at Penn State developed a new fabrication approach that optimizes the internal structure of electrospun fibers to improve their performance in electronic applications. They published their findings in the Journal of Applied Physics.
7/28/2025
Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds remained a perplexing mystery. The mystery may be solved, thanks to a team of researchers led by Victor Pasko, professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, that has revealed the powerful chain reaction that triggers lightning.
7/24/2025
The next generation of high-performance sensors for detecting force that can perform under extreme conditions may soon be a reality thanks to a new project underway at Penn State. The work, led by principal investigator and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Mingyo “Leen” Park, is funded by a recently awarded two-year, $2 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant through the Higher-Order Composite Resonators for Extra Resilience (HORCREX) program.
7/23/2025
Alex Mullen, a dual major in computer science and engineering science with a 4.0 GPA, has been named the summer 2025 student marshal for Penn State’s College of Engineering. He distinguished himself through research, leadership on the men's club ultimate frisbee team and internships, and will join General Dynamics in Boston after graduation.
7/23/2025
The J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School at Penn State has awarded its first round of Fox Endowment scholarships to 18 graduate students in 15 graduate programs. Seven of the recipients were from the College of Engineering. More than 600 graduate students applied for a Fox scholarship.
7/16/2025
Dreams, and likely nightmares, are experienced universally across humans and animals, but neuroscientists still do not know why. For the first time, an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers will study the underlying mechanisms of nightmares and their relationship with anxiety-related mental health disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
7/15/2025
Mahmut Kandemir, a distinguished professor with over two decades at Penn State, has been named interim head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He brings extensive research experience in areas like machine learning and memory systems, as well as a strong record of academic leadership and mentorship.
7/14/2025
A Penn State research team led by graduate student Subrata Das has won the Best Paper Award at the 2025 Association for Computing Machinery’s Great Lakes Symposium on Very Large Scale Integration (GLSVLSI) for their work on quantum computing security. The paper was selected as the top submission from 183 entries and marks the team's second major award this year.
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.
7/1/2025
The Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering recently hosted the Semiconductor Technologies and Photonics Workshop June 2-3 at the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub at Penn State University Park.
6/24/2025
At Penn State, two researchers are at the forefront of this intersection between computer science and biology. Mingfu Shao, associate professor of computer science and engineering, and David Koslicki, associate professor of computer science and engineering and of biology, recently presented three papers at RECOMB, one of the top conferences in computational biology, which took place April 26-29 in Seoul, South Korea.
6/16/2025
Micah Haack, a doctoral student in electrical engineering in the Penn
State College of Engineering, has been awarded the U.S. Department of
Defense Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART)
Scholarship. During the summer months and after graduation
for a minimum of two-and-a-half years, Haack will work at the Naval
Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.
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.
6/11/2025
A group of researchers, co-led by two faculty from the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, developed a tool to streamline the analysis of existing genome assemblies. They tested their algorithm, called “CloseRead,” on 74 publicly available genome sequences and were able to identify errors in these curated assemblies with more accuracy than other existing verification tools, which are not specialized for particularly complex areas of the genome.
5/28/2025
Doctoral candidate Satwik Kundu and his advisor, Prof. Swaroop Ghosh, won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE HOST Conference for their paper "STIQ: Safeguarding Training and Inferencing of Quantum Neural Networks from Untrusted Cloud," which addresses security concerns in quantum computing. The paper was selected as the top submission out of 144 full papers at the conference.
5/21/2025
Anton Bankevich, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has received the 2025 RECOMB Test of Time award for hisinfluential 2013 paper, “Assembling Genomes and Mini-Metagenomes from Highly Chimeric Reads,” recognized for its lasting impact on computational biology. His contributions to the field also include a 2022 Nature Biotechnology publication advancing genome assembly techniques.
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.
5/19/2025
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
Penn State researchers, in collaboration with the University of Arkansas and Spark Therapeutics, developed a novel single-pass tangential flow filtration (SPTFF) system that significantly advances gene therapy manufacturing by enabling more efficient, continuous processing of AAV vectors. The work was recently featured in Chemical Engineering Progress for its potential to reduce costs and improve therapeutic quality.
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.
5/13/2025
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. The annual event, most recently held April 14 through April 17, highlighted Penn State faculty and student research and excellence through panels, research showcases, immersive workshops and a poster session.
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.
5/13/2025
Amir Sheikhi, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering and associate professor of chemical engineering, has been named the 2025 recipient of the TAPPI Nanotechnology Division Mid-Career Award in recognition of his impactful research and contributions to the field of renewable nanomaterials. The award honors his scientific innovation, mentorship and leadership within the TAPPI NanoDivision.
5/12/2025
George Lesieutre, a professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, has been selected to receive the 2025 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Award for his pioneering research in adaptive flight structures and smart materials.
5/7/2025
Sky Semone, a doctoral student in electrical engineering at Penn State, received an honorable mention in the 2025 IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition for groundbreaking research on plasmonic metasurfaces. Their work was selected from 131 global submissions and will be presented at the IEEE AP-S/URSI Symposium in Ottawa.
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.
4/29/2025
Sukwon Choi, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, has been elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), one of the organization’s highest honors recognizing significant engineering achievements and professional contributions.
4/28/2025
Penn State’s Shell Eco-Marathon team recently placed third at the annual Shell Eco-Marathon, an international competition that challenges teams to design and build a vehicle with the highest possible fuel efficiency. The team — consisting mostly of mechanical engineering majors who participate in the competition as their senior capstone projects — raced against seven other teams in their category on April 2-6 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis.
4/25/2025
Faculty from the Penn State College of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science were recognized by a number of University-level awards this spring.
4/24/2025
An alumnus from the 1960s who built a successful career in the chemical industry has pledged an $8.5 million estate commitment to the Department of Chemical Engineering, funding multiple initiatives that will support the growth of students and faculty in the department for generations to come. The donor has chosen to remain anonymous.
4/24/2025
Two graduate students in Penn State’s Graduate Program in Acoustics, Olivia Heui Young Park and Grace Wood, designed, organized and hosted a workshop that helped students build their own 3D-printed dodecahedron speakers.
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.
4/23/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering community is mourning the loss of George Etzweiler, associate professor emeritus of electrical engineering, who died on March 16 at the age of 105.
4/22/2025
From microscopic robots that can carry and deliver drugs inside the human body to tiny particles that can detect and break down microplastics, an emerging field called active matter is looking toward the microscale to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.
4/21/2025
Saying one thing while feeling another is part of being human, but bottling up emotions can have serious psychological consequences like anxiety or panic attacks. To help health care providers tell the difference, a team led by scientists at Penn State has created a stretchable, rechargeable sticker that can detect real emotions — by measuring things like skin temperature and heart rate — even when users put on a brave face.
4/21/2025
Penn State recently launched the Center of Excellence in Directed Energy (CEDE), a University-wide center designed to conduct basic research on focused energy — like lasers or microwaves — to develop new applications and build up a workforce skilled in the science and systems development of directed energy (DE).
4/21/2025
The American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) recently awarded the 2025 Rock Mechanics Research Award to a team of Penn State researchers, including three from the College of Engineering. The recipients will be recognized at the annual ARMA Symposium, which will take place on June 8-11 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
4/17/2025
An interdisciplinary team from Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh developed a coastal management model that takes a chess-like approach to protecting shorelines against rising sea levels amid climate change uncertainty.
4/15/2025
Four Penn State undergraduates, including chemical engineering major Zach Badinger, were named Goldwater Scholars for 2025-26, based on their outstanding academic merit and research experience. Goldwater Scholars are selected for their potential as leaders in the fields of natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.
4/15/2025
The Materials Research Institute (MRI) at Penn State has announced the recipients of the 2025 Interdisciplinary Seed Grants and Transdisciplinary Teaming Initiative awards, designed to support collaborative, high-risk research with the potential for significant societal and technological impact.
4/15/2025
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers' (ASME) Mechanical Engineering Department Heads Executive Committee recently awarded the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award.
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
4/14/2025
Sven Bilén, professor of engineering design, of electrical engineering and of aerospace engineering, recently began the second year of a $1 million research program to develop thruster systems for very low earth orbit
4/11/2025
Low Design Office (LowDO), a Texas- and Ghana-based architecture firm co-founded by Penn State architecture and engineering design professor DK Osseo-Asare, has been selected by the Walton Family Foundation as one of the 45 design firms to join its Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program.
4/11/2025
A group of 17 academic leaders from across Penn State, including Dan Hayes, head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Nanotherapeutics and Regenerative Medicine, recently completed the 2025 Excellence in Academic Leadership (EAL) program — an experience designed to strengthen leadership effectiveness and support ongoing professional growth.
4/11/2025
In a partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Penn State civil engineering researchers examined infrastructure development across Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, statistically modeling how each county’s transportation infrastructure impacted the economic health of the region and beyond.
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
4/11/2025
Christopher Kube, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected to lead a multidisciplinary team on a two-year, $1 million grant from the Structures Uniquely Resolved to Guarantee Performance (SURGE) program of the federally funded Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a method to detect, measure and localize porosity defects inside 3D-printed metal parts while they are being made. Instead of waiting until after printing to check for flaws, Kube’s team will develop acoustic sensors built into the printing platform and ultrasonic microphones to detect and measure pores during the print.
4/10/2025
Ramin Rahimzadeh Khorasani, an electrical engineering graduate student in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received a best presentation award for his poster and presentation during the Low Voltage DC-DC Converters Technical Session of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition.
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.
4/9/2025
Previously inaccessible regions reveal novel insights that may advance understanding of evolution and conservation genetics for endangered apes as well as human health.
4/9/2025
Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and his team had their research featured in a recent article by Interesting Engineering. Combining what Cheng calls “soft robotics and flexible electronics,” the team developed small, magnetic robots constructed out of materials that mimic living organisms.
4/9/2025
AI’s rapid expansion also drives higher water usage, emissions and e-waste, raising urgent sustainability concerns, according to Mahmut Kandemir, a distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and associate director of the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences.
Kandemir has spent his career optimizing computer systems for speed and efficiency. Now, he said he sees an unprecedented connection between his research and its environmental impact.
4/9/2025
Special biomedical materials that can be injected as a liquid and turn into a solid inside our bodies — called thermogels — could provide a less-invasive way to deliver drugs or treat wounds. Scientists at Penn State have developed a new design for these materials that further improves their properties and may hold particular promise for use in tissue regeneration, the researchers said.
4/7/2025
Four undergraduate members of Penn State’s land surveying club, Tristan Dobbs, Jonathan Smith, Luke Jones and Zachary Smith, placed fourth at the National Society of Professional Land Surveyors (NSPS) Student Competition on March 17-20 in Silver Spring, Maryland.
4/7/2025
A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international team led by researchers at Penn State are pioneering such adaptable robots by integrating flexible electronics with magnetically controlled motion.
4/7/2025
Tak Sing Wong, professor of mechanical engineering and of biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was named a fellow by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
4/4/2025
Two Penn State civil engineering students were awarded scholarships from the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust. Xueyang Wang, a second-year graduate student in civil engineering, was awarded $2,500, and Matthew Griffiths, a recent Penn State alumnus of the civil engineering program who was a student at the time of application, was awarded $5,000.
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.
4/4/2025
More than 400 students from 20 universities attended the symposium on March 27-29, which this year was hosted by Penn State’s student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The event offered a variety of civil engineering competitions, presentations and professional development opportunities to student engineers.
4/3/2025
A team of Penn State researchers used a new 3D printing method to produce a complex metal build that was once only possible with welding: fusing two metals together into a single structure. Using an advanced additive manufacturing process known as multi-material laser powder bed fusion — enabled by a newly acquired system in Penn State’s Center for Innovative Materials Processing Through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D) — the researchers printed a complex structure out of a blend of low-carbon stainless steel and bronze, which consists of 90% copper and 10% tin.
4/3/2025
Kaleigh Yost, the L. Robert and Mary L. Kimball Early Career Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, recently received the Younger Member Award from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). She also was recently elected to serve on a board representing geotechnical faculty.
4/2/2025
Computer science major Parth Gosar was honored with the 2025 John W. Oswald Award for his leadership in social services, religious activities and student government.
4/2/2025
Daniel Russel, teaching professor of acoustics and distance education coordinator, was quoted in an article covering a novel baseball bat design recently published by NPR. In the article, Russel shares perspective on the trend of “torpedo bats” overtaking baseball right now, which are shaped like a bowling pin to mirror how hitters tend to contact the ball.
4/1/2025
Six nuclear engineering researchers in the Penn State Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering were recently awarded Nuclear Energy University Program grants from the U.S. Department of Energy.
4/1/2025
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awarded Spencer Szczesny, associate professor of biomedical engineering and of orthopedics and rehabilitation, the Y.C. Fung Young Early Career Award. Szczesny will receive the award and deliver a speech on tendon development and inclusive science at ASME’s Summer Bioengineering Conference on June 22-25 in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.
3/31/2025
A multi-institutional team led by Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Penn State, recently received a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop the next generation of synthetic blood.
3/31/2025
The American Heart Association (AHA) awarded Nivetha Gunaseelan, a doctoral candidate studying biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, a predoctoral fellowship.
3/31/2025
The Three Minute Thesis competition, started by the University of Queensland, is a research communication event that challenges students to summarize the impact of their research for a general audience in only three minutes with one presentation slide.
3/31/2025
The Three Minute Thesis competition, started by the University of Queensland, is a research communication event that challenges students to summarize the impact of their research for a general audience in only three minutes with one presentation slide.
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.
3/31/2025
Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College has chosen five Scholar Alumni, including two from the College of Engineering, to receive the 2025 Scholar Alumni Awards in recognition of their professional achievements and contributions to both the world and to Schreyer Honors College.
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
The Penn State Emeritus Academy has announced the induction of seven esteemed emeritus faculty members as Academy Professors for Spring 2025, including Martin Pietrucha, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering, College of Engineering, University Park campus.
3/26/2025
Alexandria Rhoads, a third-year aerospace engineering undergraduate student in the Penn State College of Engineering, has been named a recipient of the 2025 Brooke Owens Fellowship.
3/26/2025
Penn State electrical engineering students Jasmine Khalil, Annabelle Johnson and Evan Marcinkevage were recently chosen by the Council on Undergraduate Research to participate in the Scholars Transforming Through Research Advocacy Program in Washington, D.C., which coaches students on communicating their undergraduate research to their communities.
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.
3/26/2025
The fall 2024 cohort of the Penn State Emerging Academic Leaders (PSEAL) program have successfully completed their semester-long professional development experience.
3/25/2025
A team led by researchers at Penn State is working to accelerate drug discovery, with the potential to treat rare diseases, by improving the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Biomedical Data Translator (Translator) — a network of computer interfaces that take biomedical research questions and provide fact-based responses.
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.
3/19/2025
The Engineering Ambassadors Network recently held a three-day-long Spring Leadership Conference at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.
3/18/2025
The study, conducted in mice, revealed that sevelamer can successfully remove off-target antibiotics from the gut.
3/17/2025
It may someday be possible to listen to a favorite podcast or song without disturbing the people around you, even without wearing headphones. In a new advancement in audio engineering, a team of researchers led by Yun Jing, professor of acoustics in the Penn State College of Engineering, has precisely narrowed where sound is perceived by creating localized pockets of sound zones, called audible enclaves. In an enclave, a listener can hear sound, while others standing nearby cannot, even if the people are in an enclosed space, like a vehicle, or standing directly in front of the audio source.
3/14/2025
Scott Medina, the William and Wendy Korb Early Career Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, was quoted in a recent article published by the U.S. National Science Foundation. His team is researching biomedical technology that could revolutionize how vaccines and other drugs are stored.
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.
3/13/2025
Sven Bilén, professor of engineering design, of electrical engineering and of aerospace engineering at Penn State, recently authored an article about 3D printing featured on The Conversation, a site that hosts expert discussion of research and trends in science.
