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Faculty workshop on leveraging intellectual property to be held April 2

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.

Celebrating 30 years of Penn State’s transportation engineering conference

1/6/2025

On Dec. 11-13, transportation professionals from around the country gathered at the Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center for the 30th anniversary of the Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute’s biggest event, the Transportation Engineering and Safety Conference (TESC).

WATCH: Mixing up carbon-neutral concrete solutions in the College of Engineering

12/19/2024

Due to its massive scale of production, concrete’s environmental impact is significant: It accounts for 8% of the globe’s total annual carbon dioxide emissions. In the Penn State College of Engineering, researchers are working to make a dent in that number through innovations in manufacturing and carbon capture and storage.

Q&A: How do roads and bridges contribute to pollution, and what can be done?

11/22/2024

Since 2001, the Penn State Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies, housed in the Larson Transportation Institute in the College of Engineering, has worked to reduce the environmental impact of dirt and gravel roads and undersized bridges and culverts. Most recently, the research center worked with the U.S. Forest Service to develop a standard to replace stream crossings in Pennsylvania. The first few stream crossings designed with this new standard were recently completed.

Vroom vroom! Penn State earns multiple wins in autonomous driving competition

8/15/2024

The Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team (AVT) took home multiple wins, including third place overall, in its third year of the AutoDrive Challenge II, which empowers student teams to develop and test a fully autonomous passenger vehicle on a controlled urban driving course over a weeklong competition.

A Note from Neeli: Penn State steering the future of autonomous vehicles

8/2/2024

At the Larson Transportation Institute Test Track, ride along with President Bendapudi and the faculty and students who are helping develop tech for self-driving cars.

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