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2/4/2026
Julianna Simon, associate professor of acoustics and of biomedical engineering, has been named the director of the Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics, effective Jan. 1. The promotion follows her service as interim director since the summer of 2024 and as a Penn State faculty member since 2017.
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.
11/12/2025
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.
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.
4/23/2025
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.
4/11/2025
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.
4/2/2025
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.
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.
3/17/2025
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.
2/17/2025
Penn State’s Office of Faculty Affairs recently named Zoubeida Ounaies, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems, a distinguished professor.
