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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.
1/23/2025
Led by Parisa Shokouhi, Penn State professor of engineering science and of acoustics, a team of researchers developed a machine learning model for labquake prediction that can also automatically retrieve specific parameters — known as rate and state friction parameters — from the ultrasonic monitoring of stick-slip experiments. The rate and state friction parameters define the mechanics of the labquakes; they determine the strength of the fault, signaling how close it is to failure.
12/24/2024
Victor Sparrow, United Technologies Corporation Professor of Acoustics, shared his perspective on the risks associated with sonic booms caused by recent SpaceX launches in an article published on CNNScience.
12/6/2024
With a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a team of biomedical engineering researchers will apply ultrasound imaging technology to monitor the transport of genetically engineered, cancer-fighting macrophages into brain tumors.
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.
10/23/2024
Julianna Simon, an associate professor of acoustics and biomedical engineering, was awarded a Frederic Lizzi Early Career Award by the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound in Taipei, Taiwan last month. This prestigious award recognizes and celebrates the achievements of individuals early in their careers in the field of therapeutic ultrasound.
9/25/2024
Using high-speed X-ray imaging, a team of researchers led by Christopher Kube, associate professor of engineering science and of acoustics, captured footage of a cross-section of liquid metal as it cooled. Their results confirmed longstanding hypotheses in the field that through local pressure changes, ultrasonic vibrations encourage air bubbles to increase in number, enlarge, migrate to the surface of a melt pool and pop — increasing the quality of the finished product.
9/12/2024
The newly constructed Engineering Collaborative Engineering Research and Education Building (ECoRE), the latest expansion for the College of Engineering onto West Campus at Penn State University Park, is a showcase for collaboration, both in how it was built and how it will be used by faculty, staff and students at the University.
9/3/2024
Seventeen graduate students from Penn State have been awarded research fellowships and six undergraduate students from the commonwealth have been awarded scholarships for 2024 from the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC).
8/28/2024
Acoustics research at Penn State has begun to sound like science fiction, with mentions of holograms, vortex beams and a remote whispering beam. Yun Jing, professor of acoustics in the Penn State College of Engineering, recently received a three-year, $418,136 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to study nonlinear acoustic effects in wavefront shaping.
8/12/2024
Julianna Simon, associate professor of acoustics and of biomedical engineering, has been named the interim director of acoustics at Penn State. Penn State News spoke with Simon hear her perspectives on the field of acoustics, the direction and goals for the Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics and Simon’s own professional background and research.
