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12/30/2022
Research led by Bo Cheng, Kenneth K. and Olivia J. Kuo Early Career Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Penn State, in aerial drone design was recently featured in an article by Popular Science.
12/22/2022
Yu-Hsin Chen, doctoral student of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Penn State, won a presentation award at the 44th annual Society of Medical Decision Making Conference held Oct. 23-26 in Seattle.
12/22/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering fundraised $46,291 from 254 gifts on GivingTuesday, which took place on Dec. 8. The funds will benefit students largely through scholarships, as well as supplement resources for materials and experiences.
12/21/2022
These are some of the photos that best capture the excitement and spirit of innovation across the College of Engineering in 2022.
12/21/2022
Electric vehicle battery research conducted by Chao-Yang Wang, the William E. Diefenderfer Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was named one of the top ten most significant scientific developments of the year by The Guardian.
12/20/2022
George Lesieutre, professor of aerospace engineering, and Daning Huang, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, are two of three authors of a new textbook on structural dynamics. The graduate-level book, Structural Dynamics: Theory and Applications to Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Volume 50 will be published in February by Cambridge University Press.
12/19/2022
Lissa Melis, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, took home two first-place awards at Penn State’s 15th Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium.
12/16/2022
Penn State researchers are looking for a safer and more efficient way to use machine learning in the real world. They developed and tested a new reinforcement learning algorithm aimed at improving energy consumption and occupant comfort in a high-rise office building.
12/16/2022
Jacqueline O’Connor, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, recently collaborated with colleagues to edit a book titled Renewable Fuels: Sources, Conversion, and Utilization. The editors aim to increase energy literacy and bridge the disconnect between those who make fuels and those who use them.
12/13/2022
Penn State’s Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems received a $300,000 International Research Experiences for Students grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a research exchange program with the University of Freiburg in Germany.
12/13/2022
Nathan Brown, assistant professor of architectural engineering, is among the Penn State researchers studying whether fungal biomaterials can replace synthetic acoustic insulation and potentially reduce construction waste.
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?”
12/12/2022
Research led by Greg Pavlak, assistant professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, was recently featured in the December 2022 newsletter from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.
12/12/2022
A new model by a team of researchers led by Penn State and inspired by Michael Crichton’s novel “Prey” describes how biological or technical systems form complex structures equipped with signal-processing capabilities that allow the systems to respond to stimulus and perform functional tasks without external guidance.
12/9/2022
A new type of active pixel sensor that uses a novel two-dimensional material may both enable ultra-sharp cellphone photos and create a new class of extremely energy-efficient Internet of Things sensors, according to a team of Penn State researchers.
12/9/2022
The popularity of wearable electronics has induced demand for their parts, including power sources such as triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). Penn State researchers combined a porous 2D material known as MXene and laser-induced graphene foam nanocomposite to form a material system that enables a TENG to be stretchy and perform on dynamic surfaces.
12/9/2022
The winners from Penn State Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory’s in-person, end-of-semester showcase have been named. The showcase, which is also taking place virtually, is for senior engineering students to present their capstone design projects.
12/9/2022
Hummingbirds have extreme aerial agility and flight forms, which is why many aerial vehicles are designed to mimic hummingbird movement. Using a novel modeling method, researchers gained new insights into how hummingbirds produce wing movement, which could lead to design improvements in flying robots.
12/9/2022
The Materials Research Institute (MRI) is calling for proposals from Penn State researchers for two seed grant programs: Penn State-Taipei Tech Collaborative Seed Grant Program and Interdisciplinary Seed Grant Opportunities in Multiple Areas Across Partnerships in the Office for the Senior Vice President of Research (OSVPR).
12/8/2022
Back in-person for the first time since 2019, the annual Transportation Engineering and Safety Conference (TESC) gives industry leaders a chance to connect and share knowledge and ideas.
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.
12/7/2022
Eric Donnell will take over as associate dean of research for the College of Engineering at Penn State, effective Jan. 1.
12/7/2022
Led by Penn State, academia, national laboratories and industry have formed the Post-Industrial Midwest and Appalachia (PIMA) Nuclear Alliance to harness carbon-free energy while educating and training the future energy workforce. The alliance will host a workshop to continue establishing their team, conceptualizing their goals and developing their project plans at Penn State New Kensington’s Digital Foundry Dec. 8-9.
12/7/2022
Jacqueline O’Connor, director of the Center for Gas Turbine Research, Education, and Outreach and associate professor of mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, served on the editorial team for a recently published book, Renewable Fuels: Sources, Conversion, and Utilization.
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.
12/7/2022
Xiaogang Hu, associate professor of mechanical engineering and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neurorehabilitation, will lead Penn State’s efforts in the newly funded Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center in Assisting Stroke Survivors with Engineering Technology.
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.
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.
12/2/2022
Applications are now being accepted for a summer 2023 undergraduate research experience in the Penn State College of Engineering. Students from across the country can conduct next-generation propulsion and power research and work closely with leading academic experts through the new program.
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.
12/1/2022
Penn State researchers have received a planning grant from the Civic Innovation Challenge to study ways to improve rural-urban commutes. The six-month, $50,000 civic-engaged research award is funded by the National Science Foundation in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Energy.
11/30/2022
Jing Du, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering, was selected for the Young Leaders Professional Development Award by the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).
11/30/2022
Penn State student Jeff Jackman earned his associate degree in air and space operations technology through the G.I. Bill. He continued his education at Penn State Berks and on Dec. 15 will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
11/30/2022
If you are reading this article on your computer or phone, it is in part thanks to diodes. Diodes are used for a variety of critical electronic functions and are typically rigid. Electronic devices, such as robotics or medical devices, are becoming more flexible as technology advances, so Penn State researchers have developed a fully rubbery stretchable diode that maintains performance.
11/29/2022
Penn State researchers used neutron radiography to reveal the first new information on a patch that may have come from Amelia Earhart's plane in 30 years. Now, they are using the same techniques to investigate microplastics.
11/29/2022
Penn State researchers developed a method to manufacture soft, elastic semiconductors and circuits more efficiently.
11/29/2022
A Penn State-led research collaboration developed a scalable model specifically to control large groups of buildings and their energy demand in realistic operational settings. They published their approach in the Journal of Energy Storage.
11/29/2022
The Penn State Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase for senior engineering students to present their capstone design projects with both in-person and virtual formats Dec. 6 - Dec. 16.
11/28/2022
To ensure fair and impartial distribution of the $1.07 billion that was awarded to Pennsylvania as part of 2021’s massive settlement with opioid manufacturers and distributors, a team of interdisciplinary researchers from Penn State worked with counties across the commonwealth to develop the formula by which funds are being distributed.
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.
11/22/2022
A team of Penn State engineers has determined that both water discharge — or the volume of water flowing through a river or stream — and climate itself may have significant influence on dissolved inorganic carbon concentrations in rivers and streams.
11/21/2022
Bruce Logan, director of the Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Evan Pugh University Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, has been invited to speak to the Danish parliament about energy as Europe wrestles with energy costs and insecurity.
11/21/2022
Seven Penn State materials researchers have received the 2022 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award, including five in the College of Engineering.
11/21/2022
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, has been recognized with two professional society awards.
11/18/2022
Ruggero Rossi, assistant research professor in the Penn State Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has received two awards: the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology 2022 Innovation Award for best technological development, and the International Society for Electrochemisty-Elsevier Prize for Green Electrochemistry.
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.
11/18/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering community is mourning the sudden loss of Janna Maranas, professor of chemical engineering, who died on Nov. 3 at the age of 57.
11/18/2022
Fruit flies can quickly compensate for catastrophic wing injuries, researchers found, maintaining the same stability after losing up to 40% of a wing. This finding could inform the design of versatile robots, which face the similar challenge of having to quickly adapt to mishaps in the field.
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.”
11/18/2022
Mechanical engineering doctoral student Xiaoyue Zhao was selected to participate in the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop, held Oct. 6-7 at Stanford University.
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.
11/17/2022
A team of two students from the Penn State Department of Architectural Engineering won a $1,000 grant from the Illuminating Engineering Society. The accepted their award at the society’s annual conference held Aug. 3-5 in New Orleans.
11/17/2022
The Penn State Breazeale Reactor can now run five beam ports with seven neutron beam lines simultaneously.
11/16/2022
A $1 million gift from PJ Dick and Trumbull Corporation will name classroom 102 inside West 1, a new engineering facility set to open at University Park in spring 2024. The classroom, which is the largest in the building, will be named the George Mezey and Jeff Turconi Classroom.
11/15/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering’s School of Engineering Design and Innovation has updated its name, from the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, as part of its strategic plan. The name was approved on Nov. 14 and it will go into effect immediately.
11/15/2022
A Penn State-led multidisciplinary collaboration may have found a solution for antibiotic resistance in cholestyramine, an oral drug already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reduce cholesterol levels and remove bile acids associated with liver diseases.
11/14/2022
Penn State alumni David and JoEllen Sallack doubled down on their support of Penn State with a $250,000 gift to establish the David and JoEllen Sallack Engineering Ambassadors Program Fund in the College of Engineering. The Sallacks previously established the John A. and Fay Sallack Memorial Scholarship in 2019.
11/10/2022
Using functional MRI and electrophysiology, researchers in the Penn State College of Engineering identified a link between respiration and neural activity changes in the brain. This means taking a deep breath can actually impact one's emotional state — long acknowledged to be effective by mental health practitioners, but never before proven by science.
11/10/2022
Researchers from Penn State’s Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing and the College of Engineering have received a to study the effects of ambient lighting interventions in nursing homes. The collaborative project will focus on nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
11/10/2022
Michael Barringer, associate research professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, was named to the most recent class of fellows for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
11/10/2022
Nikki Crowley, assistant professor of biology and of biomedical engineering at Penn State, is the 2022 recipient of the Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP) Editor’s Early Career Award.
11/10/2022
For the ninth consecutive year, the Penn State Society of Women Engineers (SWE) received the Outstanding Collegiate Section Gold Mission Award at the SWE national conference (WE22).
11/8/2022
A Penn State-designed window screen system that automatically changes its shape based on indoor and outdoor environmental conditions is part of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal through Dec. 5.
11/8/2022
Thomas Oziemblowsky, a recently retired U.S. Air Force (USAF) lieutenant colonel, "engineers potential" as an academic adviser in the Engineering Advising Center.
11/4/2022
Currently, women and other underrepresented populations make up about 10% of the workforce in construction, but with automation and teleoperation increasing in construction, there may be new opportunities to make construction work more accessible across genders. Yuqing Hu, assistant professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, will lead a team to investigate these opportunities with a three-year, $559,757 National Science Foundation grant.
11/4/2022
Lauren Griggs is the director of the Penn State College of Engineering’s Multicultural Engineering Program, and she supports students as they navigate their undergraduate and graduate engineering studies.
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.
11/2/2022
Penn State will hold its annual First-Generation Celebration on Nov. 8, celebrating Penn Staters, promoting campus resources and bringing awareness to the first-generation community at Penn State. Recent Penn State first-generation mechanical engineering graduate Mahima Kania reflects on her college experience.
11/2/2022
The “I Engineer” campaign highlights excellence across Penn State’s College of Engineering and how the college is made stronger by the diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds of those in the engineering community. Featured here is Martin de Jesus Nieto-Perez, associate teaching professor in the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering.
11/2/2022
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering, was featured in an article by SELF magazine that discussed ways to improve home ventilation to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other airborne contaminants and viruses.
11/2/2022
Yiqi Zhang, assistant professor of industrial engineering at Penn State, was awarded the Stephanie Binder Young Professional Award by the Surface Transportation Technical Group (STTG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).
11/1/2022
Penn State has selected the architectural firm KieranTimberlake from Philadelphia to lead the Sackett Building renovation and additions project at University Park.
10/31/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering has surpassed a milestone of $500 million in externally funded research awards since 2019, including nearly $53 million awarded in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, setting the college on track to exceed its 2021-22 fiscal year total of $132.4 million in external research awards.
10/31/2022
Deb Kelly, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Penn State Center for Structural Oncology, was featured on an episode of Science with a Twist, a ThermoFisher Scientific podcast.
10/31/2022
Nearly 40 students and faculty members from the Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering attended the 2022 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in San Antonio on Oct. 12-15.
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.
10/28/2022
On Sept. 22, University of Freiburg Rector Kerstin Krieglstein presented the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg’s University Medal to Martin Trethewey, Penn State professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, for his efforts in forging a global collaboration between the two universities.
10/28/2022
Traditional treatments for lung cancers can have serious side effects throughout the body, but newly developed, highly targeted treatments could reduce damage, according to Penn State researchers. A team led by Dan Hayes, biomedical engineering department head and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Nanotherapeutics and Regenerative Medicine at Penn State, developed a method that could lead to one such treatment with magnetic nanoparticles that can release a therapeutic payload when stimulated using a magnetic field.
10/27/2022
Jack Hébert, founder of the Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC) and senior research adviser at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, will deliver the 2022 Hankin Distinguished Lecture at 4 p.m. on Nov. 2 via Zoom.
10/27/2022
Jean Paul Allain, Huck Chair Professor and head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering in the College of Engineering at Penn State, was appointed to serve on the Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee. The national committee advises the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science on the national fusion energy science program.
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.
10/26/2022
Tim Simpson, Paul Morrow Professor in Engineering Design and Manufacturing in the Penn State College of Engineering, has received the Design Theory and Methodology Award from the Design Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
10/25/2022
Meghan Vidt, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Penn State, discusses her research in furthering the understanding of mastectomy and reconstruction surgery for breast cancer and the effects these surgeries have on patients.
10/24/2022
Penn State holds the honor of being one of two universities in the United States, along with Universidad de Puerto Rico, that is home to two UNESCO chairs. Osama Awadelkarim, professor of engineering science and mechanics and director of the Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization (CNEU) holds the title of UNESCO Chair on Building Innovation and Manufacturing Capacities Through Advanced Technology Education.
10/24/2022
Population size and economic development drawbacks may outpace the benefits of less pollution and slowed climate change, according to projections by Penn State-led researchers. The team used past and predicted data to model five future scenarios estimating premature deaths due to air pollution, as well as which areas of the world could be the most impacted.
10/21/2022
Steve Bloser, director of Penn State's Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies, discusses 25 years of Pennsylvania's Dirt, Gravel, and Low Volume Roads Program with Department of Agriculture Secretary Redding.
10/20/2022
Amy Pritchett, head of the Penn State Department of Aerospace Engineering, chairs a 10-person committee that published its first report on emerging commercial aviation safety trends in the United States, sponsored by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
10/19/2022
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the Penn State College of Engineering, and co-principal investigator Dino Ravnic, associate professor of surgery at Penn State College of Medicine and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Regenerative Medicine and Surgical Sciences, were awarded a one-year, $801,134 NIH grant to advance biomaterial-surgical applications.
10/19/2022
Andisheh Ranjbari, Tracy Early Career Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was quoted in a New York Times article that discussed sleeper and luxury coaches as an alternative to plane and train travel.
10/18/2022
Researchers at Penn State have successfully 3D bioprinted breast cancer tumors and treated them in a breakthrough study to better understand the disease that is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide.
10/17/2022
Lois Jung, a 2022 Penn State graduate in industrial and manufacturing engineering, was awarded the 2022 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Supply Chain Excellence Award, for which she received a $25,000 scholarship.
10/14/2022
Wearable robots could reduce injuries among construction workers by providing life support, weight dispersion and posture correction, but the risks and challenges of using them on job sites remain largely unknown, according to Houtan Jebelli, assistant professor of architectural engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering. A three-year, $675,000 National Science Foundation grant will enable a team of researchers from Penn State and Virginia Tech, led by principal investigator Jebelli, to study the physical, psychological and sociotechnical risks of powered wearable exoskeletons to construction workers.
10/14/2022
Chemical engineering alumnus Michael Griffin and his wife, Nikki, established a $400,000 endowment to establish the Michael and Nikki Griffin Early Career Professorship in Chemical Engineering to support a faculty member in the first years of their academic career. The endowment includes a $100,000 matching gift from Penn State.
10/14/2022
Penn State is hosting the DEI Summit: A Big Ten ++ Engineering Workshop Oct. 16-18 to take the next step to incorporate the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion into engineering curricula.
10/14/2022
Penn State researchers have received a two-year, $423,000 grant from the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) to develop a data-driven framework for a wireless sensing system that may protect construction workers from severe heat-related illnesses.
10/13/2022
Damien Guého, a Penn State doctoral student in aerospace engineering, was awarded the $2,500 Guidance, Navigation and Control Graduate Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
10/13/2022
Bruce Logan, Evan Pugh University Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, has been named a fellow of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology.
10/13/2022
Greg Pavlak, assistant professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, was recognized by the U.S. regional affiliate of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA-USA) in September at the 2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild in Chicago.
10/12/2022
A breakthrough in electric vehicle battery design has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy acquired for longer travel range was announced today (Oct. 12) in the journal Nature.
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.
10/12/2022
The Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) Nuclear Security and Physical Protection Technical Division and the INMM Chapter at Penn State will co-host the Security of Advanced Reactors Workshop from Nov. 2-4 both in person at University Park and virtually.
10/11/2022
An interdisciplinary Penn State research team developed machine learning models that assess the connections among hundreds of clinical variables, including doctor visits and health care services for seemingly unrelated medical conditions, to predict the likelihood of autism spectrum disorder in young children. They published the results in BMJ Health & Care Informatics, and a related team earned a NIH grant to pursue the work further.
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.
10/11/2022
As the frequency and severity of both heat waves and extreme cold weather events increase across the United States, assessing how well a structure can handle extreme temperatures — known as thermal resilience — becomes critical, according to Penn State Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering Julian Wang. With a four-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation grant, a Penn State team led by Wang is developing a new holistic framework to understand the relationship between thermal resilience and sustainable design strategies for buildings and communities.
10/7/2022
Penn State nuclear engineering doctoral student David Reger won the Young Professional Thermal-Hydraulic Research Competition at the American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting on June 14.
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.
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.
10/6/2022
A team of Penn State aerospace engineering graduate students placed in all three events in the 2021 First Responder UAS Triple Challenge, a drone design competition hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The team took home $130,000 in prize money.
10/6/2022
Amrita Basak, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, has received a two-year, $498,235 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award for her work predicting and preventing thermal deformation in multi-laser additive manufacturing.
10/6/2022
Josephine Pindro, a third-year Penn State undergraduate student in industrial engineering, received a grant from Penn State’s Student Engagement Network to support her summer 2022 internship at Boeing, a leader in aircraft manufacturing.
10/6/2022
The “I Engineer” campaign highlights excellence across Penn State’s College of Engineering and how the college is made stronger by the diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds of those in the engineering community. Featured here is alumnus Kriston Ramdass, who works for SpaceX as a test equipment engineer, where he is working to create the next generation of reusable rockets to transport humans from Earth to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
10/6/2022
Penn State Scranton dedicated its new Engineering Building on Thursday, Oct. 6, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that featured Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi as a keynote speaker and approximately 100 guests, including University and community leaders, donors, faculty, staff and students.
10/6/2022
Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences has announced the creation of the Center for Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Industry, which will connect experienced artificial intelligence and machine learning researchers at Penn State with industry partners to identify and pursue collaborative, industry-sponsored, exploratory research projects.
10/5/2022
Penn State architectural engineering alumnus Lester Boyer has established the Lester L. Boyer Graduate Research Scholarship through his estate to help full time Penn State graduate students pursuing a degree in architectural engineering.
10/4/2022
The Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) honor faculty, staff and alumni who have made exceptional contributions to teaching, research, advising and service. The award ceremony will take place in Robb Hall on October 12.
10/4/2022
Penn State has joined the new National Science Foundation Center for Autonomous Air Mobility and Sensing as a founding core member. CAAMS is housed in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at Colorado University Boulder.
10/4/2022
Paul Zeleza, the North Star Distinguished University Professor and Associate Provost at Case Western Reserve University, will visit Penn State to give an open lecture. The event is co-sponsored by the Penn State School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs.
10/3/2022
Enrique del Castillo, Penn State Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and professor of statistics, and former Penn State industrial engineering doctoral student Xueqi Zhao received the Youden award, which honors the best paper from the annual edition of Technometrics.
10/1/2022
Matthew Parkinson, professor of engineering design, mechanical engineering and industrial and manufacturing engineering, was quoted in a Washington Post article about the debate surrounding standard airplane seat sizing.
9/29/2022
Penn State researchers were among those who met with the mayor of Makassar, Indonesia to discuss progress on Smart Garden Alley, the National Science Foundation-funded project taking place in the city.
9/29/2022
Using the human brain as a model, Penn State engineering researchers developed a synaptic transistor, which uses artificial neurotransmitters to optimize functions. The transistor can be used to enhance the performance of wearable devices and robots.
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.
9/26/2022
Four Penn State College of Engineering faculty members were selected as part of the 2022-23 cohort of Drexel University’s Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES) program. The one-year, part-time leadership program provides training and development for women faculty and administrators.
9/26/2022
Researchers at Penn State and the University of Arizona will use a four-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to employ a synthetic version of these bacteria in a system for capturing and converting methane at its source.
9/23/2022
The 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund awarded Tamy Guimarães, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, a yearlong $34,000 grant to optimize amphibious aircraft for operations in the Amazon Rainforest. The project, in partnership with Brazilian institutes Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Centro Universitário SENAI CIMATEC, received roughly $125,000 in total funding.
9/22/2022
Saptarshi Das, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics, and Akhil Dodda, engineering science and mechanics doctoral student, discussed their research to develop a low-power smart chip that enhances data security in a Happy Valley Industry article.
9/22/2022
The “I Engineer” campaign highlights excellence across Penn State’s College of Engineering and how the college is made stronger by the diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds of those in the engineering community. Featured here is Min Liew, recent recipient of a Penn State doctoral degree in civil engineering.
CoE Headline: Min Liew: ‘I Engineer Resiliency’
9/22/2022
Students advancing solutions in health, education, environment and humanitarianism are making a difference in the world around them through the work they are advancing as part of the Nittany AI Alliance. Several of them received additional funding to continue their work in the AI space at the AI for Good Expo on Sept. 8.
9/22/2022
Amanda Enns, a master’s student in the engineering leadership and innovation management program in the Penn State School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, is helping small and medium-sized businesses through an assistantship in Penn State’s Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program.
9/21/2022
The Penn State Alumni Association will honor Charles Dages, who received a master’s degree in engineering science in 1977, and 13 other Penn Staters on Sept. 28 with the Alumni Fellow Award, the most prestigious award given by the Alumni Association.
9/21/2022
Climate change in the Arctic is evident as temperatures rise and Alaskan coastal Indigenous communities face severe, urgent and complex social and infrastructural challenges. Penn State research in the region, driven by social sciences and in collaboration with engineering and natural sciences, will address these challenges.
9/21/2022
The Penn State Google Developer Student Club was the only team from the United States to earn a place among the top 50 teams in the world for Google’s 2022 Solution Challenge. The competition tasks student clubs to use Google technology to solve for one or more of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
9/20/2022
Peter Collins, doctoral candidate in civil and environmental engineering at Penn State, was recently named the recipient of the 2022-23 ACI Presidents’ Fellowship from the ACI Foundation, a nonprofit subsidiary of the American Concrete Institute.
9/19/2022
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, joined contemporaries from around the world to examine how past medical maladies involving respiratory diseases may have delayed learning that COVID-19 is airborne-transmissible.
9/19/2022
Penn State was named a collaborating institution in a $66 million U.S. Department of Energy Urban Integrated Field Program designed to study the impacts of climate change on American cities. Bruce Logan, Evan Pugh University Professor and Kappe Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is one of 21 Penn State faculty members working on the grant.
9/19/2022
In the brain, neural activity usually is followed by increases in blood flow to the active region, a process known as neurovascular coupling. Scientists know that this process is important for brain health, as the breakdown of this process precedes many neurodegenerative diseases, according to Patrick Drew, Penn State professor of engineering science and mechanics and of biomedical engineering. What scientists don’t know is why neurovascular coupling exists at all. Drew proposed possible answers to this question in a review article, “Neurovascular coupling: Motive unknown,” published in Trends of Neuroscience.
9/19/2022
On Sept. 28 at noon, Xiaojun (Lance) Lian, associate professor of biomedical engineering, will be featured on The Symbiotic Podcast.
9/16/2022
Robert Melton, professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, was elected to the International Academy of Astronautics, an organization focused on global scientific cooperation across disciplines to advance human space exploration.
9/16/2022
A $1.5 million grant from the USDA will enable researchers to assess foraging patterns of honey bees on organic farms, with an eye toward creating opportunities for beekeepers to produce certified-organic honey and other apiary products. Julio Urbina, associate professor of electrical engineering, is part of the interdisciplinary team.
9/16/2022
A project led by Ryan Harne, James F. Will Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was recently featured by multiple media outlets, including The Independent, Interesting Engineering and New Scientist.
9/16/2022
Yun Jing, associate professor of acoustics and of biomedical engineering, and Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, were featured in the January/Februrary issue Radiology Today.
9/15/2022
Natalia Nigay, a doctoral student in Penn State’s Department of Aerospace Engineering, was selected as a NASA Space Technology Graduate Researcher. She will study the use of beamed microwave energy propulsion on the moon.
9/15/2022
The Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering, one of the oldest in the United States, has a new leader. Madhavan Swaminathan will join the University as the head of electrical engineering and William E. Leonhard Endowed Professor on Jan. 1, 2023.
9/14/2022
Penn State researchers collaborated with an international team to develop a flexible, implantable sensor capable of continuous nitric oxide monitoring, which can help identify early signs of osteoarthritis after joint damage.
9/13/2022
Working together across disciplines, researchers from Penn State and the University of Freiburg are applying materials that adapt, respond to the environment, self-power and regenerate to meet the challenges of adaptive architecture.
9/13/2022
Two Penn State researchers, including Bruce Logan, Evan Pugh University Professor, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering and director of the Institutes of Energy and the Environment, provided key leadership in the creation of a report to the National Science Foundation on engineering research areas needed to address climate change. Logan served as a co-chair and member of the report’s Thematic Task Force. He also guided content creation and report editing.
9/13/2022
Penn State researchers received $1 million from NASA to help states improve the way they address air quality issues. Wei Peng, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of international affairs, is a co-investigator on the project.
9/12/2022
In August, nearly 300 first-year engineering students participated in the Multicultural Engineering Program Orientation and the Women in Engineering Program Orientation.
9/12/2022
Penn State ranked 22 out of 212 schools in "Best Engineering Programs" at schools whose highest degree is a doctorate. The University also ranked well in a number of engineering specialties.
9/8/2022
Engineering researchers have received a $570,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to improve upon membrane capacitive deionization, a portable, lightweight, and easy to operate water purification method that has the potential to desalinate seawater.
9/7/2022
Michael Lanagan, professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, is part of an academic-enterprise partnership that has developed a new dielectric material for use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines. The material is designed to deliver higher image resolutions and enable shorter scan times, which may reduce MRI operating costs for the hospital and lessen the MRI-related anxiety suffered by some patients.
9/7/2022
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and biomedical engineering, and his team's research were recently featured in a BioTechniques article.
9/7/2022
A Penn State-led team of interdisciplinary researchers has developed techniques to improve the efficiency of CRISPR-Cas9, the genome editing technique that earned the Nobel Prize in 2020.
9/6/2022
An interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study food, energy and water security in remote Alaska communities.
9/2/2022
Seong Kim, Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering and associate head of the department at Penn State, was named this year’s recipient of the Hayashi Jisuke Prize from the Cellulose Society of Japan. The award is given to “up-and-coming researchers from Japan and overseas who are making significant contributions to the development of cellulose science and technology” and who also promote “efforts in international exchange activities,” according to the Cellulose Society’s website. Kim was the only researcher recognized this year.
9/2/2022
Krystal Leung, a fourth-year Schreyer Honors College Scholar who is majoring in computer science in the College of Engineering, was awarded the Scholar Involvement Award.
8/31/2022
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a multi-institution team a $9 million, five-year grant to understand how to protect data shared across distributed computing systems such as cloud computing environments. Danfeng Zhang, associate professor of computer science and engineering, will contribute.
8/30/2022
Vikash Gayah, associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, was featured on The Academic Minute radio broadcast. Gayah discussed making busy intersections safer by eliminating left turns.
8/30/2022
Sven Bilén, professor of engineering design, electrical engineering and aerospace engineering, and Ali Memari, Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction, director of PHRC and professor of architectural engineering and civil and environmental engineering, were recently featured in a Daily Collegian article.
8/29/2022
The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State is one of the recipients of a four-year $4.6 million multi-institution grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will fund microelectronics and nanomanufacturing training for military service members and veterans in ongoing efforts to create a robust nanomanufacturing workforce establish the U.S.
8/29/2022
When aerospace engineering doctoral student Chris Axten was a child, he would sometimes accompany his mother to her work at Patuxent Naval Air Station in Maryland and watch the aircraft flying overhead, curious about how such large vehicles could move through the air. His curiosity grew, and when he enrolled at Penn State in 2012 as a first-year undergraduate student, the Department of Aerospace Engineering was his top choice. Once he met Mark Maughmer, professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, Axten’s interest in aircraft solidified into a passion for sailplanes. Over the last two years, that dedication has resulted in national recognition from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
8/29/2022
Students taking a leadership course in Penn State’s School of Engineering Design Technology, and Professional Programs placed in the Airport Cooperative Research Program, a national engineering competition that aims to solve problems and inconveniences common to airports.
8/26/2022
Penn State architectural engineering students won first- and second-place awards from the American Society of Heating for projects focused on a new energy-efficient performing arts building on a university campus in Sydney, Australia.
8/26/2022
John Messner, Charles and Elinor Matts Professor of Architectural Engineering at Penn State, has been inducted into the National Academy of Construction.
8/25/2022
Sahin Ozdemir, professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, was featured in a New Scientist story about a maze of mirrors and lenses that turns any material into a highly efficient light absorber.
8/25/2022
Eric Greenwood, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, was recently quoted in Aerospace American. Greenwood discussed the excitement surrounding electric aircraft vertical takeoff and landing and the technical challenges involved with its development.
8/24/2022
Penn State researchers have developed a novel nanoengineered granular hydrogel bioink that could be used to to develop biomaterials that can be three-dimensionally (3D) printed as complex organ shapes, capable of hosting cells and forming tissues.
8/24/2022
Parisa Shokouhi, Penn State professor of engineering science and mechanics, was recently awarded a $360,000, three-year mid-career advancement grant from the National Science Foundation.
8/24/2022
A Penn State-led research team has created the first example of a soft, polymer material that acts like a brain, simultaneously sensing, thinking and acting upon mechanical stress without requiring additional circuits to process these signals.
8/23/2022
Dipanjan Pan, Huck Chair Professor and professor of nuclear engineering at Penn State, led a research team that recently published their paper, “Small Molecule NIR-II Dyes for Switchable Photoluminescence via Host – Guest Complexation and Supramolecular Assembly with Carbon Dots,” in Advanced Science.
8/23/2022
The “I Engineer” campaign highlights excellence across Penn State’s College of Engineering and how the college is made stronger by the diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds of those in the engineering community. Featured here is chemical engineering alumna Paula Garcia Todd, global strategic manager of pharma solutions for International Flavors & Fragrances.
8/22/2022
Kathryn Jablokow, professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering, recently received a National Science Foundation Director’s Award as part of the team that created the Engineering Research Initiation program.
8/19/2022
A research collaboration led by G. Gary Tan and Trent Jaeger, professors of computer science and engineering at Penn State, developed a framework to automate device driver isolation to protect against bugs.
8/18/2022
Penn State chemical engineering researchers used micro- and nanoparticles created from the organic materials like corncobs and tomato peels to capture rare earth elements from aqueous solutions.
8/18/2022
“I Engineer” highlights excellence across the Penn State College of Engineering, as well as how the college is made stronger by the diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds of those in the engineering community. Featured here is Ilgin Guler, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.
8/18/2022
Madhavan Swaminathan, incoming head of electrical engineering and William E. Leonard Endowed Chair, was featured on the Names & Faces page of Electrical Apparatus magazine’s November 2022 – Workforce! issue.
8/18/2022
Aleksandra Radlinska, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, discusses Penn State research into extraterrestrial construction materials done in collaboration with NASA researchers.
8/18/2022
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering, discusses how the COVID pandemic provided an opportunity for U.S. schools to address the long-term problem of poor indoor air quality in the classroom.
8/17/2022
Larry Cheng received a Scialog grant for a multidisciplinary research projects called "Transforming Imaging Collection in the Brain."
8/16/2022
A light-based, food sanitization technique successfully eliminated multiple harmful pathogens in a new study carried out by Penn State researchers. The technique showed promise as an effective alternative to the chemical, heat and water-based antimicrobial technologies commonly used in the food industry.
8/16/2022
Peripheral nerves are responsible for moving muscles, sensing temperatures and even inhaling and exhaling; yet they comprise fragile fibers vulnerable to disease and injury. To maximize healing for the easily damaged nerves, Penn State researchers are using a five-year, $2.14 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Nation Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to develop a biodegradable nerve scaffold that aims to employ folate and citrate in novel ways.
8/15/2022
Researchers in the Penn State Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education received a $19,000 grant to facilitate a focus group intended to identify the most important outcomes of any STEM-based entrepreneurship course or program.
8/12/2022
Osama Awadelkarim, professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, is an expert on semiconductor fabrication and microelectronics workforce development. He testified before Congress regarding the CHIPS Act and the need to strengthen the pipeline from education to industry.
8/12/2022
A team of multiple principal investigators that includes Jian Yang, professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, received a four-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop biodegradable nanomaterials that will take pictures and deliver medicine to combat peripheral arterial disease.
8/12/2022
Motif FoodWorks connected with Penn State Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Rui Shi after learning that chemical engineering senior students completed preliminary designs for heme protein production during their capstone design course. Motif awarded Shi a $125,000 grant to explore the environmental impacts of two of Motif’s products: HEMAMITM protein, used in the company’s plant-based burgers, and APPETEXTM, which mimics the texture of animal tissue.
8/11/2022
Penn State engineers contributed to a global study, by more than 90 researchers and published in Nature, on the effectiveness of traditional risk management tactics on mitigating extreme weather event impacts.
8/9/2022
Bruce E. Logan, Evan Pugh University Professor and the Stan & Flora Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will serve as the new director of the Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment, effective Aug. 15, 2022. Logan is also affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering.
8/9/2022
Xiaohang Ji, a doctoral candidate studying geotechnical and materials engineering at Penn State, received $7,500 in scholarships from the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust.
8/9/2022
Benjamin Burlovic, a fourth-year Penn State Schreyer Scholar majoring in mechanical engineering and economics, completed an internship with consulting firm Deloitte this summer using Chapel Executive Internship funding.
8/9/2022
Smart bandages that can sense skin conditions and administer medication at wound sites may be on the horizon as a healing remedy, according to Penn State researchers. They recently reviewed the field’s latest developments in Bioactive Materials.
8/8/2022
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering, was recently featured in a Los Angeles Times article about air filtration devices and how they can help stop the spread of COVID-19.
8/5/2022
Penn State researchers have developed a take-home, saliva-based test with the same level of sensitivity as the PCR, with results that send to a smart phone within 45 minutes.
8/3/2022
Xiao Zhuang has been named the summer 2022 student marshal for the Penn State College of Engineering. He will receive his bachelor of science in computer science with a minor in mathematics at the University’s commencement ceremony, which will be held at 10:30 a.m. on August 13 in the Bryce Jordan Center at University Park.
8/3/2022
With professional experiences ranging from teaching engineering to future military officers at West Point to establishing the mechanical engineering program at The Citadel, Rob Rabb has developed a guiding belief to underpin his approach to education. He summed up this belief in one sentence: “Engineers can do a lot for a society, whether in industry or academia, but first they need a strong foundation — not just with technical knowledge but with skills like teamwork, communication and leadership.” This philosophy is one that he will apply in his new role as associate dean of education for the Penn State College of Engineering. Rabb will start in the position on Aug. 1.
8/3/2022
Despite a cancelled senior season, Nittany Lion gymnast and electrical engineering alumnus Stephen Nedoroscik persevered to win America's first world title on pommel horse.
8/1/2022
he latest episode of the Growing Impact podcast features Emily Rosenman, assistant professor of geography in Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Science. Rosenman is collaborating with Esther Obonyo, associate professor of engineering design and architectural engineering in the Penn State’s College of Engineering, to investigate energy transition in segregated cities.
8/1/2022
Gopal Bhatt, an assistant research professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was part of a multi-institutional team that recently received a 2022 Blue Pencil and Gold Screen Award from the National Association of Government Communicators.
8/1/2022
Accurate, continuous monitoring of nitrogen dioxide and other gases in humid environments is now possible, thanks to a new water-resistant gas sensor developed by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and his team.
7/28/2022
Penn State ranks in the top 50 in 16 subject area rankings — two of which are from the College of Engineering — and in the top 100 in the world in an additional 14 subjects — including three related to the College of Engineering — according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
7/27/2022
Penn State World Campus, in partnership with the College of Engineering, is accepting applications for a new online doctoral degree program in engineering that focuses on the practical implementation of engineering research and leadership in the field.
7/27/2022
FirstEnergy Corporation worked with the Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program at Penn State to sponsor two projects in the Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory in 2017. Since then, FirstEnergy Foundation has partnered with PennTAP to facilitate connections and some financial support for locally sponsored Learning Factory projects. So far, 53 participating businesses have reported resulting economic benefits in excess of $2 million.
7/27/2022
An interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers has received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a three-institution team developing the “Sustainfood Network,” which links scientists, communities and policymakers to address challenges in Africa at the nexus of water, energy and food security.
7/26/2022
Phillip Savage, currently the head of Penn State Department of Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering, has been named interim associate vice president for research and director of strategic initiatives in the Penn State Office of the Senior Vice President for Research (OSVPR), effective Aug. 22.
7/26/2022
SME, formerly known as the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, has named two Penn Staters to their 10th annual 30 Under 30 list, recognizing them as future leaders of manufacturing: Qianyu Hu and Rico Polim. The full list was published in the society’s magazine, Manufacturing Engineering.
7/26/2022
A project led by Li Li, professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was highlighted in Eos, a science news magazine. The project investigated how climate affects long-term river chemistry.
7/25/2022
Amrita Basak, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $625,000 Department of Energy (DOE) 2022 Distinguished Early Career Program award. She will use the grant to develop advanced manufacturing processes for metal additive manufacturing (AM) and enable more rapid implementation of AM techniques.
7/25/2022
Nature creates layered materials like bone and mother-of-pearl that become less sensitive to defects as they grow. Now researchers have created — using biomimetic proteins patterned on squid ring teeth, circular appendages on the tentacles of squid that are used to grasp prey — composite layered 2D materials that are resistant to breaking and extremely stretchable.
7/25/2022
In a video series titled “Perspective: Leaders at Penn State,” Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean in the College of Engineering, reflects on his passion for baseball as an opportunity to explore how individual success is derived from a team working well together.??
7/22/2022
The Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team finished the first leg of the four-year AutoDrive Challenge II, taking home seven top-three recognitions for their preliminary design and simulation demonstration of an autonomous vehicle. The competition took place June 6-10 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
7/21/2022
Erin Hostetler, director of student research and graduate equity in the Penn State College of Engineering’s Center for Engineering Outreach and Inclusion, was recently honored with the Undergraduate Research Leadership Award from the Engineering Division Councilors of the Council on Undergraduate Research.
7/19/2022
A study led by Larry Cheng, James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, examined the ways to decouple input signals for multimodal sensors, which is important for avoiding complicated signal processing steps and allowing for high accuracy with the multimodal sensors.
7/19/2022
An interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers developed a low-power, all-in-one device that can sense, store, compute and communicate information among connected devices, while keeping data encrypted and secure.
7/18/2022
Penn State agricultural engineers have developed, for the first time, a prototype “end-effector” capable of deftly removing unwanted apples from trees. It’s the first step toward robotic green-fruit thinning.
7/18/2022
Alfonso Mejia, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named the director of research for the Penn State Water Council.
7/18/2022
Hee Jeung Oh, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, is one of 84 early-career engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)’s Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 U.S.-based symposium.
7/18/2022
Penn State researchers develop a modeling framework to study how indoor ozone levels react with common indoor surfaces, such as carpet.
7/14/2022
Christopher Bereznak, an electrical systems specialist in the Penn State Facilities Engineering Institute, earned his Level III Master Thermographer Certification, the highest recognized level in the thermography industry, from the Infrared Training Center.
7/14/2022
Houtan Jebelli, assistant professor of architectural engineering, was featured in the summer 2022 issue of the Keystone Contractor Association’s magazine, “The Keystone Contractor.” In the article, “Innovation for the Future,” Jebelli discusses the use of self-optimizing collaborative robots, artificially intelligent heavy machines and unmanned vehicles on construction sites. He highlights the challenges of robots operating in dynamic job sites, a focus of his work in Penn State’s Robotics, Automation, and Intelligent Sensing Lab, where Jebelli serves as the director.
7/13/2022
Sailahari V. Ponnaluri, a doctoral candidate in the Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering, earned a 2022 Oral Abstract Award from the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO). She was recognized at the annual conference in Chicago on June 9.
7/13/2022
Shelley Stoffels, professor of civil and environmental engineering, was named associate dean for faculty in the Penn State College of Engineering, which she began on May 15. She will assist Anthony Atchley, incoming acting dean of the College of Engineering, with tenure-line and professional track faculty affairs.
7/11/2022
Nikki Crowley, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, has been awarded a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study the neurobiology of binge alcohol drinking.
7/11/2022
Thermally regenerative ammonia batteries can produce electricity on demand from low-grade waste heat. A new process for creating these batteries improves their stability and affordability and may help address the country’s growing grid-scale energy storage problem, according to Penn State researchers.
7/5/2022
Aida Ebrahimi, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and of biomedical engineering, has been selected as one of 13 researchers from seven multidisciplinary teams to receive a 2022 Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease Award. The $55,000 grant will allow Ebrahimi to conduct research to expand the understanding of the gut-brain axis.
7/5/2022
Cunjiang Yu, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and associate professor of biomedical engineering, recently was featured in a Happy Valley Industry Q&A
7/1/2022
A team of Penn State data scientists and biologists published two papers that analyze data sketching tools used in bioinformatics, the field of study that analyzes the DNA sequencing, or genomes, of living organisms.
7/1/2022
Syed Rafiul Hussain, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, received recognition and a $1 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for his work to improve the security of 5G cellular networks.
7/1/2022
Hui Yang, professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering and of biomedical engineering, was named to the annual SME 25 Leaders Transforming Manufacturing list.
6/30/2022
Vincent Meunier, professor of physics and materials science engineering and head of the Department of Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was named head of the Penn State College of Engineering’s Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics. He will start on July 1.
6/30/2022
Five College of Engineering graduate students have received 2022 NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant awards and been named graduate fellows.
6/30/2022
Sensors are a step closer to sniffing out various gases that could indicate disease or pollution, thanks to a Penn State collaboration. Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics in the College of Engineering, and Lauren Zarzar, assistant professor of chemistry in Eberly College of Science, and their teams combined laser writing and responsive sensor technologies to fabricate the first highly customizable microscale gas sensing devices.
6/30/2022
William Burgos, professor of environmental engineering, was recently quoted in a story by the Chesapeake Bay Journal discussing his research into the effectiveness of conventional oil and gas brine as a dust suppressant.
6/30/2022
Penn State announced academic promotions for non-tenure-line faculty members at the University. The promotions will take effect on July 1. The below lists are for non-tenure-line faculty promotions in engineering.
6/29/2022
Bridge deterioration models to predict future bridge conditions
6/29/2022
Shelley Stoffels, associate dean for faculty in the Penn State College of Engineering and professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a fellow of the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Academic Leadership Program.
6/29/2022
The Center for Global Engineering Engagement has partnered with the College of Agricultural Sciences to develop a new embedded course that will give Penn State students an opportunity to explore Antarctica.
6/28/2022
Penn State students in the online Master of Engineering Additive Manufacturing and Design program at World Campus visited University Park from May 16-20, as a component of the three-credit core course, ME 566: Metal Additive Manufacturing Lab.
6/27/2022
Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean in the College of Engineering, will assume the role of interim executive vice president and provost at Penn State on Aug. 15 following a transitional period that will begin in mid-July.
6/27/2022
Anthony Atchley, currently senior associate dean in the Penn State College of Engineering, will serve as acting dean for the college starting Aug. 15. The appointment comes as Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean in the College of Engineering, transitions to serve as the interim executive vice president and provost for Penn State.
6/27/2022
William Burgos, professor of environmental engineering, was featured in a WPSU video discussing the acid mine discharge from abandoned Pennsylvania coal mines.
6/27/2022
Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States, but the models that have been used to predict suicide rates weight risk factors equally and rely on data for large geographic areas, limiting the precision of the predictions, according to Penn State researchers. Now, the researchers have developed a machine learning-based model that uses their newly developed suicide vulnerability index, which weights risk factors, to identify at-risk communities at the U.S. county level.
6/27/2022
Two students in the Penn State College of Engineering were named Fulbright finalists for the 2022-23 academic year.
6/24/2022
Eight Penn State engineering graduate students received the Diefenderfer Graduate Fellowship in Entrepreneurship for the 2022-2023 academic year.
6/22/2022
Dan Hayes, Penn State alumnus, professor of biomedical engineering, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Nanotherapeutics and Regenerative Medicine and director for the Center of Excellence in Industrial Biotechnology, named new head of the Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering.
6/22/2022
Kostas Papakonstantinou, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was featured in a Trib Live article that discussed the collapse of Pittsburgh’s Fern Hollow Bridge, as well as the results of a routine inspection that took place before the collapse.
6/22/2022
Nick Jones, executive vice president and provost at Penn State, is stepping down from the role and will return to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean in the College of Engineering, was named as the interim executive vice president and provost.
6/21/2022
A team of engineering and architecture students from Penn State brought home third place in the Retrofit Housing Division of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2022 Design Challenge Competition on April 23 at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
6/20/2022
A new and more reliable method to defend vulnerable data on the stack, a major memory region responsible for storing computer program data for processes, has been developed by an international Penn State-led team. The researchers published their approach in the Proceedings of the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium.
6/17/2022
A Penn State-led team created a standalone 3D antenna system that wirelessly harvests radio frequency energy and converts it to electrical energy to power itself and on-board sensors.
6/17/2022
Laura Cabrera, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Career Chair in Neuroethics, discussed the neuroethical implications of the first reference charts for the human brain.
6/16/2022
Penn State’s Autonomous Robotics Competition Club placed third out of nine teams in the Design-Build-Vertical Flight Student Competition, the Vertical Flight Society announced.
6/16/2022
Emeritus Ron Danner has departed Penn State after 55 years as teacher, mentor and researcher in the chemical engineering field.
6/15/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering community is mourning the loss of Andrew Michael “Mike” Erdman, retired professor of practice, who died on May 29 at the age of 74. He earned an undergraduate degree in engineering science from the college in 1969, and his enduring dedication to Penn State and engineering was recognized with the college’s highest honor, the Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award, in March.
6/14/2022
Effective July 1, Christopher House, professor of geosciences, will serve as director of the Consortium for Planetary and Exoplanetary Sciences and Technology, which includes researchers from the College of Engineering.
6/14/2022
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Dorothy Quiggle Career Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, was mentioned in an article on Archinect. The article discusses a project ? for which Mahdavi is a co-principal investigator ? to study the embodied carbon emissions associated with the building sector in cities.
6/13/2022
Sydney Gibbard, a biomedical engineering student, explains how Invent Penn State has helped fund her nonprofit, Girls Code the World.
6/13/2022
COVID-19 created an urgent need for vaccines that could be made quickly, safely and cost-effectively. Novel biotechnology platform-based techniques for vaccine manufacturing are more robust, customizable and flexible than traditional vaccine development and manufacturing approaches.
6/13/2022
A Penn State-led collaboration has created artificial skin that mimics both the elasticity and neurologic functions of cephalopod skin. Made entirely of rubber, this material has potential applications for neurorobotics, skin prosthetics, artificial organs and more.
6/10/2022
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering and chair of the American Society of Heating and Air-Conditioning Engineers’ Epidemic Task Force, was featured in a Scientific American article that discussed the importance and urgency behind upgrading buildings’ ventilation and filtration to decrease COVID-19 transmission and improve health and cognitive performance.
6/10/2022
The first international conference on Advanced Instrument, Diagnostics and Controls for Applications in Turbomachinery, held May 22-24 at Penn State, has announced its student winners for technical oral and poster presentations.
6/9/2022
Three Penn State College of Engineering faculty have received Fulbright Awards for the 2022-23 academic year, according to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, the U.S. government's flagship international educational exchange program. Another was named a Fulbright Specialist.
6/9/2022
Wearable sensors — an important tool for health monitoring and for training artificial intelligence — can be waterproof or can measure more than one stimuli, but combining these factors while maintaining a high level of precision in the measurements is difficult. Researchers co-led by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, has created sensors that are waterproof — an important trait for exercise monitoring and for withstanding perspiration and all weather conditions — can measure temperature and motion on both small and large scales and can be attached to distal arteries such as the eyebrow or toe.
6/9/2022
Four teams were recognized for outstanding innovation in service systems engineering with an international award co-sponsored by the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
6/9/2022
Four teams were recognized for outstanding innovation in service systems engineering with an international award co-sponsored by the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
6/9/2022
Four teams were recognized for outstanding innovation in service systems engineering with an international award co-sponsored by the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
6/9/2022
Four teams were recognized for outstanding innovation in service systems engineering with an international award co-sponsored by the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
6/9/2022
Four teams were recognized for outstanding innovation in service systems engineering with an international award co-sponsored by the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
6/7/2022
Zoubeida Ounaies, professor of mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was chosen as associate and acting director of Penn State's Materials Research Institute.
6/7/2022
Will Searight, a doctoral student in nuclear engineering at Penn State, recently received the James F. Schumar Graduate Scholarship from the American Nuclear Society and a NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellowship, given by the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium.
6/7/2022
Karen A. Thole, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering, was selected to receive the 2022 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Heat Transfer Memorial Award.
6/7/2022
A method of highly accurate and sensitive virus identification using Raman spectroscopy, a portable virus capture device and machine learning could enable real-time virus detection and identification to help battle future pandemics, according to a team led by Penn State.
6/6/2022
A research team led by Penn State and the University of California, Los Angeles, developed a novel surface treatment for medical devices such as catheters to help prevent hospital infections from bacterial films that can form on these devices.
6/3/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering will recognize 11 early career alumni for their achievements and demonstrated commitment to their professions, communities and Penn State at a ceremony on June 17 at University Park.
6/3/2022
The winning submissions from Penn State University Libraries Short Stories’ “Written in the Stars” spring 2022 contest have been announced. Representing 50 submissions across 10 Penn State campuses, the latest writing contest encouraged students, faculty and staff across the commonwealth to submit their best “fate-themed” original short stories or poetry.
6/2/2022
Li Li, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State, was named the first Barry and Shirley Isett Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering. The professorship was established in 2019 as a $1 million gift by Barry and Shirley Isett.
6/2/2022
Margaret Byron, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was featured on a recent episode of IEE's Growing Impact podcast to discuss her research on how biofilms may impact the transport of microplastics through water.
6/2/2022
Caitlin Grady, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Lauren Dennis, doctoral student in civil engineering, wrote an article that appeared on The Conversation, an online source of news stories and research reports with accompanying expert opinion and analysis.
6/1/2022
Bryan Habas, first-year doctoral student in mechanical engineering at Penn State, has been selected for the National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship Award.
6/1/2022
Researchers traveled to Dillingham in April to study the social and engineering impacts of the Wood River Bridge on the surrounding rural community.
6/1/2022
A new study by Penn State researchers shows that ‘variant’ complexes of a protein implicated in ALS pathology form in separate pathways, a discovery which may make it easier for drug developers to design therapies to target the more harmful variant.
5/31/2022
Melissa Brindise, Penn State assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received a three-year, $231,000 career development award from the American Heart Association to study factors that may increase the risk of an aneurysm rupture.
5/31/2022
The YES team — which is led by Christine Cunningham, professor of practice in Penn State’s College of Education and College of Engineering — has been working with CPS since January and was featured in a recent article, published by the school district.
5/27/2022
Penn State undergraduate engineering students in the technical elective course, ME 427: Aerodynamics for Mechanical Engineers, recently took a field trip to the Penn State Aviation Center to explore the aircrafts and converse with pilots, crew members and staff. Tom Gorman, manager of aircraft maintenance at the center, taught the students about the practical side of aircraft maintenance and shared some of the center’s recent aerodynamics.
5/27/2022
Houtan Jebelli, assistant professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, is part of a team from Penn State and the University of Michigan that recently had their book, Automation and Robotics in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industry, published with Springer, a global publisher of scientific, technical and medical media.
5/27/2022
Two Penn State industrial engineering fourth-year undergraduate students received scholarships from Alpha Pi Mu, the industrial engineering national honor society.
5/26/2022
Frank Koe, teaching professor of engineering entrepreneurship in the Penn State School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, published two articles in Entrepreneurship magazine, an international publication with more than 2.5 million readers.
5/26/2022
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection published a report from Penn State researchers showing that spreading wastewater from conventional oil and gas wells on unpaved roads, a longstanding practice for dust suppression, works "no better" than rainwater and is harmful to the environment.
5/25/2022
The College of Engineering recently awarded six Multidisciplinary Research Seed Grants to faculty members, including one in partnership with the College of Health and Human Development and another with the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
5/25/2022
Newly developed flexible, porous and highly sensitive nitrogen dioxide sensors that can be applied to skin and clothing have potential applications in health care, environmental health monitoring and military use, according to researchers.
5/25/2022
A new take on a technique for studying defects in semiconductor materials could lead to improved speed, power and performance of electronic devices by revealing the atomic-level limitations of advanced materials.
5/24/2022
Mehrdad Mahdavi, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is part of an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers that is studying the emissions associated with the manufacturing, transportation and construction of building materials used in city buildings, as well as the demolition of those buildings, which is known as urban embodied carbon.
5/23/2022
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have named Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles Godfrey Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, as one of 14 members of the 2022-23 Jefferson Science Fellows class.
5/23/2022
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and biomedical engineering, discusses nanomaterials research to combat the severe side-effects of chemotherapy drugs.
5/23/2022
Jean Paul Allain, head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering, discusses the partnership between Penn State and Westinghouse to explore science and nuclear engineering innovations to address societal needs.
5/23/2022
Two professors from the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science were recently honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society’s Technical Community on Very Large Scale Integration. The IEEE-CS connects computer science and engineering professionals at all stages of their professional careers and its TCVLSI “addresses the interactions among the various aspects of VLSI design,” according to the society’s website.
5/20/2022
The Penn State Engineering Graduate Student Council hosted their annual College of Engineering Research Symposium on April 6 from 9:30-4:00 at the Hyatt Place in downtown State College.
5/19/2022
Ibrahim Ozbolat, professor of engineering science and mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, was featured in an article by the National Science Foundation discussing his research to bioprint bone with encoding genes that enhance healing and regeneration.
5/19/2022
Penn State announced academic promotions for tenured and tenure-line faculty members at the University, including 33 in engineering. The promotions will take effect on July 1.
5/19/2022
An international research collaboration has discovered how to exploit certain defects to protect confined energy in acoustics systems. Their experimental approach provides a versatile platform to create at-will defects for further theoretical validation and to improve control of waves in other systems, such as light, according to principal investigator Yun Jing, associate professor of acoustics and of biomedical engineering at Penn State.
5/19/2022
Penn State and Westinghouse announced that they will partner on research and development efforts focused on exploring and applying nuclear engineering and science innovations to societal needs. They will also begin discussions about siting Westinghouse’s eVinci micro-reactor, a next-generation, small modular reactor designed to address sustainable power needs from immediate use in large communities to decentralized remote applications, at University Park.
5/18/2022
The Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory has announced the winners from their spring showcase.
5/18/2022
Three Penn State engineering students have received Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation scholarships from the U.S. Department of Defense.
5/18/2022
Two Penn State researchers received a 2021 Annual Research Publications Award from the Naval Research Laboratory for their paper, “A Model for Coherent Communication Gain in Distributed Wireless Networks.”
5/11/2022
With a two-year, $400,000 National Science Foundation Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering (BRITE) Synergy award, Obonyo is bringing the community voice to the forefront of design criteria by leading the project, “Developing and Validating a Framework for Measuring Resilience in Low-Income Housing in the Post-Pandemic World.”
5/11/2022
Upcycling plastic waste into graphite, used in electric vehicles and renewable energy storage, could positively contribute to the global economy, preserving resources, saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, according to Penn State researchers. Under a seed grant from the Materials Research Institute, the researchers will explore ways to take single-use plastic waste and turn it into high-quality graphite.
5/10/2022
Fruit flies synchronize the movements of their heads and bodies to stabilize their vision and fly effectively, according to Penn State researchers who subjected flies to virtual-reality flight simulators. The finding appears to hold true in primates and other animals, the researchers say, indicating that animals evolved to move their eyes and bodies independently to conserve energy and improve performance.
5/10/2022
Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) has awarded eight new seed grants to bolster computational and data science research projects throughout the University. The support will benefit researchers from five Penn State campuses studying topics ranging from weather prediction, to forecasting mortgage loan closures, to exploring engineering approaches for battery materials.
5/10/2022
Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences announced that Mahmut Kandemir, distinguished professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has been named an associate director of the institute.
5/9/2022
Penn State University Libraries and the Schreyer Honors College recognized the 11th annual finalist presentations and winner of the recently endowed Robert F. Guentter Jr. Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award on Thursday, May 5, immediately following the three finalists’ presentations:
5/9/2022
Penn State students won first place in four categories and second place in one category at the 2022 Architectural Engineering Institute International Student Design Competition in Arlington, Texas. The team, named CaliberX, comprises students majoring in architectural engineering, each with a focus in a construction, lighting/electrical, mechanical or structural option area.
5/9/2022
Guha Manogharan, Emmert H. Bashore Faculty Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was selected to join the 2022-23 Early Career Leadership Intern Program to Serve Engineering (ECLIPSE). Administered by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, this year’s international ECLIPSE class includes six early career engineers.
5/9/2022
Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, was selected to receive the American Chemical Society’s 2022 Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Colloid & Surfactant Science.
5/6/2022
Debbie Boyle, staff in the College of Engineering, was recognized in Penn State Today as part of the regular "We Are!" feature, where Penn Staters are recognized for going above and beyond what's asked of them in their work at the University.
5/5/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering’s Center for Engineering Outreach and Inclusion hosted its second annual Engineering Equity Summit on April 2 in the Hammond Building at University Park and virtually.
5/5/2022
Combined ultrasound and photoacoustic (USPA) imaging can provide structural, functional and molecular information of deep biological tissue in real time, but its quantitative performance is affected by several unknown tissue parameters.
5/5/2022
The Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center has appointed Bruce Logan, the Penn State Evan Pugh Professor in Engineering and the Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, to its advisory committee.
5/3/2022
Penn State undergraduate engineering students in the technical elective course, ME 427: Aerodynamics for Mechanical Engineers, recently took a field trip to the Penn State Aviation Center to explore the aircrafts and converse with pilots, crew members and staff.
5/2/2022
The National Science Foundation has selected five current Penn State College of Engineering students as 2022 awardees for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program and one College of Engineering student for an honorable mention.
4/28/2022
Patrick McDaniel, holder of the William L. Weiss Chair in Information and Communications Technology in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Eric Pauley, doctoral student in computer science and engineering, were recently quoted in the IT Brew story, ‘Cloud squatters’ find data meant for previous tenants.’
4/28/2022
The Penn State student chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers was recognized by the national organization with a Fall 2021 Blue Chip Award, bestowed on chapters up to twice a year based on proven performance, as detailed in their chapter records.
4/26/2022
Efficient, customizable catalytic reactions — where two metals are combined using a catalyst, or molecule that remains unchanged during a reaction — are an attractive alternative to fossil fuels when manufacturing plastics. Researchers have found a way to make catalytic reactions less wasteful by controlling the placement of each atom on the catalyst surface.
4/25/2022
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) awarded seed grants to 21 groups of interdisciplinary researchers at Penn State for the 2021–22 cycle.
4/22/2022
Sarah Torhan, a second-year doctoral student in the Penn State Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received a Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship to research and evaluate geospatial land use, demographic and hydrological information and analyze their effects on the access and availability of food-energy-water resources in Paraguay.
4/22/2022
A new stretchable wideband dipole antenna can improve the performance of wearable technology by changing its physical shape to adapt to body movements and pressure, according to Penn State researchers.
4/21/2022
Penn State recently honored five Penn State engineering undergraduate students in recognition of their academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service. The University’s 2022 student award recipients exemplify best practices and achievements among students, reflecting the University's mission of teaching, research and service.
4/21/2022
Soundar Kumara, Allen E. Pearce and Allen M. Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering at Penn State, received a 2021 Outstanding Industrial Engineering Alumni Award from his alma mater, Purdue University’s School of Industrial Engineering.
4/20/2022
Christian Pester, Thomas K. Hepler Early Career Professor in Chemical Engineering, was named to the 2022 class of the American Chemistry Society's Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering Young Investigators.
4/20/2022
Lauren Katch, doctoral candidate in engineering science and mechanics, won first place in the student paper contest at the Acoustical Society of America annual meeting in December 2021.
4/20/2022
Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, Penn State Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, recently received a Humboldt Research Fellowship, where he will complete a research program in Germany over the course of two years.
4/20/2022
The first round of projects to receive seed funding from the Patricia and Stephen Benkovic Research Initiative has been announced.
4/20/2022
The Penn State Materials Research Institute has announced the 2022 recipients of seed grants that will enable University faculty to establish new collaborations with partners outside their own units for the exploration of transformative ideas for high-impact materials science and engineering.
4/20/2022
To better predict and mitigate radiation-induced damage of wide bandgap semiconductors, the U.S. Department of Defense awarded a Penn State-led team a five-year, $7.5 million Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Award.
4/20/2022
Penn State architectural engineering student Madison Canter grew up watching her father work in facilities and property management. Now, the Turner Construction Company Scholarship for Diversity and Inclusion in the Department of Architectural Engineering will give her the opportunity to pursue her career goals in project management.
4/20/2022
Three engineering graduate students received awards for their research and scholarship in the 37th annual Penn State Graduate Exhibition.
4/19/2022
The Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification project, an ongoing endeavor run by the Concrete Research Group at Penn State, was recently featured on NASA’s website as one of five research studies contributing to deep space exploration.
4/18/2022
Abigail Wagner has been named the spring 2022 student marshal for electrical engineering.
4/18/2022
Allison Cottle has been named the spring 2022 student marshal for civil engineering.
4/18/2022
Amey Deotale has been named the spring 2022 student marshal for computer science.
4/18/2022
Andrea Castaneda was named the spring 2022 student marshal for industrial engineering.
4/18/2022
Brandon Perdue has been named the spring 2022 student marshal for chemical engineering.
4/18/2022
Brian Druby has been named the spring 2022 student marshal for aerospace engineering.
4/18/2022
Casey Emler has been named the spring 2022 student marshal for nuclear engineering.
4/18/2022
David Taglieri has been named the spring 2022 student marshal for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program.
4/18/2022
Jeremy Keirn has been named the spring 2022 student marshal for engineering science.
4/18/2022
Justin Sembower has been named the spring 2022 student marshal for architectural engineering.
4/18/2022
Kara Miller has been named the spring 2022 student marshal for biomedical engineering.
4/18/2022
Nikita Arbuzov has been named the spring 2022 student marshal for computer engineering.
4/18/2022
Samantha Link was named the 2022 spring student marshal for mechanical engineering.
4/18/2022
Yichen Shi has been named the spring 2022 student marshal for data sciences.
4/18/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2022 commencement ceremony. One student is selected to represent each of the 14 majors associated with the college and the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program.
4/15/2022
Paula Garcia Todd, Penn State chemical engineering alumna, was featured in #IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit, presented by Lyda Hill Philanthropies’ IF/THEN Initiative. This exhibit comprises 120 life-size, 3D-printed statues of women innovators in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), making it the most statues of real women ever assembled together.
4/14/2022
Cheryl Knobloch, director of Penn State College of Engineering’s Women in Engineering Program, was one of 12 individuals across the country to receive a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
4/12/2022
John Messner, Charles and Elinor Matts Professor of Architectural Engineering, received the 2022 Computing in Civil Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers, the nation’s oldest engineering society. The award recognizes an ASCE member who has made an outstanding contribution to the application of computers to the practice of civil engineering, according to the ASCE website.
4/12/2022
An international Penn State-led team is bioprinting bone, along with two growth factor-encoding genes that help incorporate cells and heal defects, in the skulls of rats.
4/11/2022
Organizations’ failure to properly manage the servers they lease from cloud service providers can allow attackers to receive private data, according to researchers in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
4/11/2022
Eric Pauley, doctoral student in computer science and engineering, recently authored an article in The Conversation, "Mismanaged cloud services put user data at risk."
4/11/2022
Penn State will join a national consortium led by The University of Alabama to translate water research into operations that improve the country’s ability to predict weather-related hazards and effectively manage water resources. NOAA is funding the effort with $360 million.
4/8/2022
Ken Brentner, professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aeroacoustics Award, while Karen Thole, Penn State Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received the AIAA Thermophysics Award.
4/8/2022
Penn State students from the Center for Global Engineering Engagement and an Engineering Leadership Development course hosted a delegation of 25 students and faculty from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland’s (SUPSI) Medrisio and Lugano campuses for a week of events and workshops to kick off semester-long collaborative projects with Penn State students.
4/8/2022
A new computational tool known as Scallop2 allows for accurate assembly of full-length RNA molecules at single-cell resolution, according to Penn State researchers. The results of this work were recently published in Nature Computation Science.
4/8/2022
An international team, co-led by researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) in the U.K. and the Penn State College of Engineering in the U.S., has developed a tunable graphene-based platform that allows for fine control over the interaction between light and matter in the terahertz (THz) spectrum to reveal rare phenomena known as exceptional points. The team published their results today (April 8) in Science.
4/5/2022
Applications are open for the inaugural High-Performance Building Summer Camp, an intensive three-week program that introduces participants to the design and construction principles of more sustainable, more efficient and healthier buildings. The day camp will take place from May 31 through June 17 in Pittsburgh, a city classified as a United Nations International Center of Excellence on High-Performance Building.
4/4/2022
With a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant, Penn State and the University of Dayton will lead two advanced studies institutes in Taiwan on display technologies for engineering and science graduate students.
3/30/2022
Xin Ning, Penn State assistant professor of aerospace engineering, will develop morphable wings for unmanned aircraft inspired by bird flight in a three-year, $510,000 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.
3/30/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering has added 15 faculty members this semester, with 11 tenured or tenure-line members and four non-tenure-line members.
3/30/2022
Penn State alumnus David Angle’s 41-year career in the building industry has included overseeing everything from hotels and hospitals to universities and synagogues. Each project required different approaches and considerations, but Angle attributes these professional successes to the same strong foundation: his Penn State degree in architectural engineering. To help others have the same opportunity, Angle has established the David Angle Endowed Scholarship in Architectural Engineering.
3/30/2022
Eleven Penn State engineering graduates will be honored on April 4 at the College of Engineering’s Outstanding Engineering Alumni Awards ceremony at Hyatt Place State College. Charlie Blenko, an undergraduate student majoring in civil engineering, will serve as the event’s emcee.
3/30/2022
Osama O. Awadelkarim, professor of engineering science and mechanics and the UNESCO Chair on Building Innovation and Manufacturing Capacities through Advanced Technology Education at Penn State, testified before the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Research and Technology on Feb. 15. The hearing was titled “Strengthening the U.S. Microelectronics Workforce.”
3/30/2022
Researchers at Penn State are at the leading edge of the field now known as additive manufacturing, working to advance the capabilities of 3D printing with a goal of addressing pressing problems in human health, housing and transportation, among other areas.
3/30/2022
David Mazyck, a three-time alumnus of the Penn State College of Engineering, has been named the next head of the college’s School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs. Mazyck will also serve as a professor of engineering design, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He will start on May 16.
3/30/2022
In the 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Engineering Programs rankings released today (March 29), engineering at Penn State University Park ranked No. 32 overall, advancing one place from last year’s report, and No. 18 among public institutions. Seven engineering specialty disciplines offered by the College of Engineering also climbed in the rankings, and eight are now ranked in the top 20 nationally.
3/30/2022
Penn State will hold the first National Science Foundation-funded symposium on how machine learning can contribute to the field of hydrology. The event, titled “HydroML Symposium on Big Data Machine Learning in Hydrology and Water Resources,” will be held May 18-20 in person at University Park and online. Early registration ends on April 1, while regular registration ends on May 1.
3/28/2022
Sienna Helfrich, a 2014 chemical engineering graduate, was selected to receive the Alumni Achievement Award from the Penn State Alumni Association. Awardees are nominated by an academic college or campus and invited by the president of the University to share their expertise with students and the Penn State community, according to the press release.
3/28/2022
The Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase for senior engineering students to present their capstone design projects with both in-person and virtual formats.
3/28/2022
Implementing piezoelectricity, a property that enables the conversion of mechanical stress into electricity, into certain materials can be difficult. Qiming Zhang, distinguished professor of electrical engineering, led an interdisciplinary research team to create a piezoelectric polymer that could one day be used in a number of sensing applications.
3/28/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering will host its annual industryXchange event on May 24 – 25 at The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. Industry members, Penn State faculty and government agencies will come together to explore collaboration opportunities for research and student engagement.
3/28/2022
Many industrial processes require purified hydrogen, but separating that hydrogen from a mix of other gases can be difficult. Penn State researchers propose using an electrochemical hydrogen pump to separate the hydrogen quickly and cost-effectively.
3/28/2022
William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering, was quoted in the New York Times story, "The White House emphasizes the importance of indoor air quality as the pandemic moves into a new phase."
3/25/2022
Michele Beisler, deputy program manager for the NASA Rocket Propulsion Test program office, has been named one of 11 recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award by the Penn State College of Engineering.
3/25/2022
Cherish Samuels, a principal engineer at Amazon, has been named one of 11 recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award by the Penn State College of Engineering.
3/25/2022
Colleen S. Pritchett, president of Hexcel Corporation, Americas Aerospace, has been named one of 11 recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award by the Penn State College of Engineering.
3/25/2022
Jane L. Snowdon, deputy chief science officer for science operations at IBM Watson Health, has been named one of 11 recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award by the Penn State College of Engineering.
3/25/2022
Lori Gordon, partner in the intellectual property practice of Perkins Coie, LLP, has been named one of 11 recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award by the Penn State College of Engineering.
3/25/2022
Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar, professor of nuclear engineering and associate dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Idaho State University, has been named one of 11 recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award by the Penn State College of Engineering.
3/25/2022
Mike Erdman, retired Penn State professor of practice, has been named one of 11 recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award by the Penn State College of Engineering.
3/25/2022
Peter “Pete” Kunz, vice president and chief engineer of Boeing Phantom Works, has been named one of 11 recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award by the Penn State College of Engineering.
3/25/2022
Scott Patti, vice president of business planning, transformation and operations for Dell, has been named one of 11 recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award by the Penn State College of Engineering.
3/25/2022
Shalini Govil Pai, general manager and vice president of Google TV, has been named one of 11 recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award by the Penn State College of Engineering.
3/25/2022
Steve Spadt, chief technology officer for the American College of Physicians, has been named one of 11 recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award by the Penn State College of Engineering.
3/25/2022
Andisheh Ranjbari joined Penn State as the Tracy Early Career Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering on Jan. 1. She received a bachelor’s degree from the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran, a master’s degree in transportation engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology and a doctorate in transportation engineering from the University of Arizona.
3/25/2022
Andrew Barnard joined the Penn State College of Engineering as professor and director of the graduate program in acoustics on Jan. 1. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University and a doctorate in acoustics from Penn State.
3/25/2022
Christopher Dancy joined the Penn State College of Engineering as the Harold and Inge Marcus Industrial and Manufacturing Career Development Associate Professor on Jan. 1. Dancy is affiliated with both the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
3/25/2022
Cunjiang Yu joined the Penn State College of Engineering as the Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering on Jan. 1. Yu received his doctorate in mechanical engineering at Arizona State University and completed a three-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
3/25/2022
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Debarati Das joined the Penn State College of Engineering as an assistant professor of computer science and engineering on Jan. 1. Das completed her doctorate in computer science at the Computer Science Institute of Charles University in Prague and earned a master’s degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
3/25/2022
Donald Ebeigbe joined the Penn State College of Engineering as an assistant professor of electrical engineering on Jan. 1. Ebeigbe received a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Federal University of Technology Akure and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Cleveland State University.
3/25/2022
Ezra Clark joined Penn State as an assistant professor of chemical engineering on Jan. 1. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Louisville and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
3/25/2022
Federico Scurti joined Penn State as an assistant professor of nuclear engineering in the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering on March 1. Scurti received a bachelor’s degree in energy engineering and a master’s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy.
3/25/2022
Gina Noh joined Penn State as an assistant professor of chemical engineering on Jan. 1. She came to Penn State from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich where she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow.
3/25/2022
Ilya Kovalenko joined Penn State as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and industrial and manufacturing engineering on Jan. 1. He heads the Control and Automation for Intelligent Systems Lab at Penn State.
3/25/2022
Wangda Zuo recently joined the Penn State College of Engineering as a professor of architectural engineering on Jan. 1. He also serves as associate director for the Global Building Network, an initiative that aims to advance building science, construction process and building management in order to create an international framework that will make buildings more sustainable, efficient and healthier for people.
3/23/2022
Quantum computers could be used one day to solve problems conventional computers can't, but the technology underlying them needs to be better understood, according to Swaroop Ghosh, Joseph and Janice M. Monkowski Career Development Associate Professor in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Ghosh received two National Science Foundation grants totaling $715,000 to improve quantum computing cybersecurity and curricula.
3/21/2022
The BKM-Gary E. Johnson Memorial Scholarship is open to students in good standing who are pursuing a degree in architectural engineering, mechanical option. Students who would like to be considered for the scholarship should submit a Department of Architectural Engineering scholarship application.
3/21/2022
An inhalable "aerogel" loaded with DNA that encodes for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein successfully induces an immune response against COVID-19 in the lungs of mice, according to new research conducted at Penn State. The team said its aerogel could be used to create an inhalable vaccine that blocks SARS-CoV-2 transmission by preventing the virus from establishing an infection in the lungs.
3/21/2022
An international collaboration led by Penn State researchers has developed a new tool to reduce the time and resources involved in determining which materials can be best applied in wearable technology, including biomedical devices.
3/18/2022
Swaroop Ghosh, Joseph and Janice M Monkowski Career Development Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was recently quoted in the article, "Take this $715,000 and find security gaps in quantum computers, says NSF," from The Register.
3/17/2022
Penn State mechanical engineering alumnus Bob Phillips is honoring Frank Schmidt, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, and his late wife, Mary, while also creating financial support opportunities for mechanical engineering students by establishing the Professor Frank and Mary Schmidt Scholarship in Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering.
3/17/2022
A company spawned from Penn State research on a composite fiber from the proteins in squid ring teeth is a winner of the Microfiber Innovation Challenge. Tandem Repeat Technologies was named as one of five companies to win the contest.
3/17/2022
Mary Frecker, head of the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering, Riess Chair of Engineering and director of the Penn State Center for Biodevices, was quoted in an article on WebMD, "How Scientists Adapted an Ancient Art Form to Create Nanoscopic Medical Tools."
3/15/2022
What if you had the opportunity, as a teenager, to design a building, learn how to program artificial intelligence for construction purposes, tour world-class labs and facilities, interact with top-of-their-field professionals and immerse yourself in the fast-paced world of architectural engineering? Now, high school students can do all of this and more at the AEspiring Architectural Engineering camp at Penn State.
3/15/2022
Sri-Rajasekhar “Raj” Kothapalli, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, discusses his work to develop a transparent, biocompatible ultrasound transducer chip.
3/15/2022
In March 2020, first-year students in the hands-on, teamwork-based Engineering Design course found themselves learning online due to the pandemic. A research team led by Penn State investigated the effect of this shift on their ability to thrive in the virtual classroom.
3/9/2022
A new security analysis technique allows researchers to test cellular modems for potential security vulnerabilities in cell phones in a fully automated approach that is also general enough to be applied to modems from different vendors.
3/9/2022
Xueyi Zhang, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and his doctoral student, Xinyang Yin, contributed to a study led by researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Stockholm University that revealed crystalline porous materials widely used to produce chemicals, fuels and more can exist in one-dimensional nanotubular shapes. Called zeolites, the materials were previously only produced in two or three dimensions.
3/8/2022
Two Penn State College of Engineering faculty members were named to the most recent class of fellows for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Jingjing Li, William and Wendy Korb Early Career Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Elia Merzari, associate professor of nuclear engineering.
3/8/2022
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to 51 high-impact computational science projects for 2022 through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. Elia Merzari, associate professor of nuclear engineering at Penn State, will lead one of these projects in collaboration with researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Argonne National Laboratory.
3/7/2022
A Penn State-led team of interdisciplinary researchers developed a method that improved the lifespan and efficiency of CRISPR gene-editing tools after delivery into stem cells. Their findings were made available online ahead of official publication in Bioactive Materials.
3/4/2022
Christopher Bereznak, an electrical systems specialist in the Penn State Facilities Engineering Institute, received a College of Engineering Staff Advisory Committee (SAC) Staff Professional Development Award.
3/3/2022
Marek Flaska, associate professor of nuclear engineering at Penn State, was named the specialty chief editor for the radiation measurements and safety section of Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering, a new journal planned to launch in spring 2022.
3/3/2022
Chaopeng Shen, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State, and other researchers have developed a new geoscientific model known as differentiable parameter learning that can be applied broadly and lead to more aggregated solutions. Their model, published in Nature Communications, is publicly available for researchers to use.
3/3/2022
With the goal of creating an international framework to make buildings more sustainable, more efficient and healthier, Penn State and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe renewed the Global Building Network, coordinated through the College of Engineering, for another three years.
3/3/2022
Penn State researchers have developed a set of tools and methods to better monitor and analyze sleep-related signals and fidgeting in rodent brain studies.
3/2/2022
Mya Guillaume, a third-year aerospace engineering student, was named a 2022 Brooke Owens fellow. The fellowship was founded in 2016 to honor the memory of D. Brooke Owens, an aerospace industry professional and pilot, and recognizes students from underrepresented gender backgrounds with a career interest in aerospace.
3/2/2022
Detailed control models for building heating, ventilation and air conditioning can optimize multiple variables such as energy efficiency and temperature but can take a long time to work. Penn State researchers developed a method that leverages machine learning to create controls that balance building energy cost, comfort and efficiency at a fast pace.
3/2/2022
Sarah Zappe has been named the new director of the Penn State Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education, as well as assistant dean for teaching and learning in the College of Engineering.
3/2/2022
Penn State alumnus Adam Mayernick is the recipient of the Department of Chemical Engineering’s 2021 Early Career Alumni Recognition Award.
2/28/2022
Bin Li, associate professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, earned a three and a half year, $505,900 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Wireless collaborative mixed reality networking: Foundations and algorithms for joint communication, computation and learning.”
2/28/2022
Nicholas Meisel, assistant professor of engineering design at Penn State, earned a five-year, $556,586 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Consideration of manufacturability in early state design for additive manufacturing.”
2/28/2022
Antonio Blanca Pimentel, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, earned a five-year, $500,000 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Sampling, learning and testing spin systems.”
2/28/2022
Chris Arges, associate professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, earned a five-year, $570,030 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled, “Electrochemical pumping with high-temperature ionomers for challenging gas separations.”
2/28/2022
Christian Pester, Thomas K. Hepler Early Career Professor in Chemical Engineering at Penn State, earned a five-year, $500,000 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Photocatalytic optical fibers.”
2/28/2022
Jing Du, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, earned a five-year, $552,606 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Structures and Properties of Bone at Multiple Length Scales.”
2/28/2022
Margaret Byron, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, earned a five-year, $815,671 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Liminal locomotion: Life at the air-water-land interface.”
2/28/2022
Matthew Rau, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, earned a five year, $567,307 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “The impact of extracellular polymeric substances on particle transport in aquatic environments.”
2/28/2022
Mingfu Shao, Charles K. Etner Early Careere Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State, earned a five-year, $749,867 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Algorithms and tools for allele-specific transcript assembly.”
2/28/2022
Spencer Szczesny, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and of orthopaedics and rehabilitation at Penn State, earned a five-year, $654,682 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Studying tendon cell mechanobiology in the native tissue environment.”
2/28/2022
Yang Yang, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, earned a five-year, $550,000 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Characterization and understanding of point defect evolution during corrosion-induced grain boundary migration.” Yang is also affiliated with the Penn State Materials Research Institute.
2/28/2022
A research paper led by Xin Ning, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, was featured on the September 2021 cover of Advanced Materials Technologies, a technology-related materials applications journal.
2/28/2022
The North American Membrane Society recently named Andrew Zydney, Penn State professor of chemical engineering, a fellow. He is being honored for his contributions to the society over a span of 30 years.
2/28/2022
Part of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Engineering Ahead initiative to support underrepresented students in engineering across the university, Engineering Summer Bridge is a six-week summer program that helps incoming first-year University Park students prepare for engineering or science-based majors. The program provides students with academic support that introduces them to the college’s curriculum, as well as social and cultural events to encourage community building with their peers.
2/28/2022
Pennsylvania saw a 38% increase in the rate of gun violence during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was higher than the national average. This observation is based on the recent peer-reviewed study that enabled Penn State researchers to assess the rates of gun violence before the pandemic and compare them with the rates during the first year of the pandemic.
2/28/2022
Justin Pritchard, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Entrepreneurial Assistant Professor and assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was quoted in an article published by the Daily Collegian on Feb. 28.
2/28/2022
Nine faculty members in Penn State’s College of Engineering earned National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. Each project funded ranges in duration from three and a half to five years, with grants from roughly $500,000 to more than $800,000.
2/28/2022
A research team co-led by Penn State created a first-of-its-kind methodology for diagnosing 3D printing errors with machine learning in real time.
2/27/2022
Michael Janik, associate department head and professor of chemical engineering, and Robert Roiux, Friedrich G. Helfferich Professor of Chemical Engineering, were quoted in an article on c&en, "Customizing alloy catalysts for hydrogenation."
2/25/2022
Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, was named to the 2021 MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 China list.
2/25/2022
Kathryn Jablokow, professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering, will present one of three keynote talks at NASA’s upcoming imaginAviation virtual event, set for March 1-3.
2/25/2022
Penn State was recognized as a 2021 outstanding university by the American Concrete Institute. The distinction recognizes universities for their participation in select ACI-related activities and programs.
2/25/2022
The Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science’s summer camps are back, this time in person, for more hands-on learning and creating with virtual reality and wearable technology. Both camps are geared toward girls but open to participants of all identities.
2/24/2022
The Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering recently celebrated its graduate students and their visually engaging research during the 2022 Vizzies.
2/24/2022
Amir Sheiki, Penn State assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering and principal investigator for the Bio-Soft Materials Laboratory, and Juliana Dominick, former undergraduate research assistant at Penn State, were quoted in an article published by the Daily Collegian on Feb. 18.
2/24/2022
Penn State engineering researchers created an easier, more exact method to stimulate cells through ultrasound waves by creating a transparent, biocompatible ultrasound transducer chip upon which cells can be cultured and stimulated.
2/23/2022
Six Penn State student startup teams have been selected as finalists in the Invent Penn State Inc.U Competition and are set to compete for $30,000 in funding on “The Investment,” a WPSU Shark Tank-like television production that will be livestreamed during Penn State Startup Week powered by PNC.
2/22/2022
School-age children could one day take a class on the moon — with the help of virtual reality, that is. With a $1 million National Science Foundation grant, a multi-university team of researchers led by Bin Li, Penn State associate professor of electrical engineering, will work to expand the possibilities of remote education over wireless networks.
2/22/2022
William Walters, assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Penn State, will discuss advanced nuclear reactors and their role in combating climate change during a talk on Monday, Feb. 21.
2/22/2022
The College of Engineering Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory showcases for the fall 2021 semester took place virtually from Dec. 10 – 17 and in-person on Dec. 7. Students in the senior capstone design courses presented the culmination of their semester-long projects at the events.
2/22/2022
A Penn State-led research team was inspired by the concept of image compression to develop a research method that could "compress" the size of genetic libraries. They aim to enable simpler experiments on a larger variety of cells to help advance cancer biology, biotechnology and more.
2/22/2022
Wei Peng, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of international affairs, was quoted in an article published by Vox on Feb. 20.
2/22/2022
This semester, there are 11 official Students Teaching Students courses being offered, with topics ranging from the menstrual equity movement and Kid Cudi to domestic violence in the LGBTQ+ community and gendered stereotypes in movies.
2/21/2022
Penn State Professor of Electrical Engineering Vishal Monga has been named a 2022 senior member of the National Academy of Inventors.
2/21/2022
A study led by Penn State researchers shows new ways to view viruses and vaccine components in minute detail using liquid-electron microscopy, a new tool that allows for high-resolution imaging in near-native environments.
2/18/2022
Parisa Shokouhi, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics and acoustics at Penn State, recently received the Institute for Materials Science Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
2/17/2022
Jacqueline O’Connor, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Gas Turbine Research, Education, and Outreach at Penn State, was featured in the latest episode of Additive Manufacturing's "The Cool Parts Show" on February 17.
2/17/2022
Verizon enabled 5G ultra-wideband capabilities at Penn State Innovation Park.
2/17/2022
The Federal Highway Administration recently honored a student and two faculty members for their paper, “A State Based Markov Model Approach to Impact Echo Signal Classification,” which was selected as the first-place winner in the bridge category of the 2020-21 Long-Term Infrastructure Performance Student Data Analysis Contest.
2/17/2022
A proposal for an extensive renovation and expansion of the Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel Building on the University Park campus, a part of Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory (ARL), was advanced today (Feb. 17) by the Board of Trustees Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning. The proposal will be considered by the full board at its meeting on Feb. 18.
2/15/2022
Chao-Yang Wang, professor and Diefenderfer Chair in the Penn State Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, was quoted in an article published by Wired on Feb. 9. Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/can-super-fast-battery-charging-fix-the-electric-car/
2/14/2022
Rob and Helen Diemer, both 1981 architectural engineering graduates, wanted to provide for students needing to cover a range of costs from unexpected family emergencies to enhanced educational experiences. The couple endowed the Rob and Helen Diemer Student Emergency Fund in the Department of Architectural Engineering to support those students.
2/14/2022
In November 2021, the Penn State School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Engineering Entrepreneurship (E-SHIP) program hosted the first annual Cardboard Challenge. The event challenged teams of students to build a vending machine prototype out of cardboard boxes.
2/11/2022
A new study abroad program at Penn State provides graduate students with leadership and professional development training before they embark on a research internship to collaborate with experts and local communities as they address complex sustainability challenges associated with interconnected water-energy-food systems.
2/10/2022
The Patricia and Stephen Benkovic Research Initiative is a University-wide funding mechanism designed to directly support fresh, bold research projects at the interface of chemistry and the life sciences. Nikki Crowley, assistant professor of biology and biomedical engineering, Scott Medina, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering, were funded in the first awarding cohort.
2/10/2022
The Penn State Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Engineered Systems (CAFÉ) Distinguished Lecture Series showcases research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computer science, neuroscience and electrical engineering. The weeklong virtual seminar series will take place daily from noon to 1 p.m., starting on Feb. 14.
2/9/2022
Jian Yang, professor of biomedical engineering, was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. Fellowships are awarded in recognition of scientifically and socially distinguished achievements in the scientific enterprise, according to the AAAS press release.
2/9/2022
Fingerprints left at a crime scene are typically collected and stored as photographs — but do they have to be? Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, received a $300,000 grant from the Criminal Investigations and Analysis Center to develop a technique for creating 3D holograms from fingerprints.
2/8/2022
Spencer Szczesny, Penn State assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was awarded the 2022 CMBE Rising Star Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group.
2/7/2022
Sometimes research means combing through data on a computer or studying a sample in a quiet lab. Other times, it means taking an unplanned, 12-hour road trip to don a hardhat and collect the data yourself. Faculty members and graduate students from the Penn State College of Engineering did the latter, traveling to Mayfield, Kentucky, to capture data on tornado destruction in the wake of the December 2021 Midwest Tornado series.
2/7/2022
By reconfiguring neural networks in artificial intelligence devices, a multi-institute team that included Penn State researchers facilitated AI systems to continually learn and adapt new data and tasks in ways that were not possible or practical before. The approach combines a novel algorithm with perovskite nickelate — a material so sensitive to subatomic changes, they can change its electrical properties — to overcome two of the main limitations of AI: catastrophic forgetting and high energy consumption.
2/7/2022
Flexible electronics could lead to advancements in medical technology, smart devices and more, but their manufacturing must balance electric performance and stretchability, according to Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State.
2/4/2022
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Metamaterials, made up of small, repeated structures engineered to produce desired interactions with light or sound waves, can improve optical devices used in telecommunications, imaging and more. But the functionality of the devices can be limited by the corresponding design space, according to Lei Kang, assistant research professor of electrical engineering at Penn State.
2/4/2022
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Using less material in floors is a viable strategy for improving sustainability in buildings, as it can reduce the structure’s environmental footprint. Prioritizing only this goal, however, can lead to unwanted effects — such as an echo in a room or noise traveling between floors, according to Nathan Brown, assistant professor of architectural engineering.
2/4/2022
Deb Kelly, professor of biomedical engineering, Huck Chair in Molecular Biophysics and director of the Penn State Center for Structural Oncology, recently had her research highlighted by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
2/3/2022
Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, is working to improve health monitoring by creating self-powered, environmentally-friendly, wearable sensors that collect data for clinicians while limiting discomfort for patients.
2/2/2022
Now, researchers at Penn State and The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation and the University of California Los Angeles are developing novel biomaterials to target post-stroke immune response and promote new blood vessel and axon — the part of the neuron that carries nerve impulses away from the cell’s processing center — formation at the site of the stroke.
2/1/2022
By demonstrating exceptional control of an open optical system, an international research team has provided a path to experimentally measure and test exotic phenomena and gain insights into new physics with exquisite sensitivity.
1/31/2022
Penn State engineering researchers, in collaboration with University of Massachusetts investigators, recently received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to build, model and failure-test customizable dual-switch gene drives that convert cancer cells into a "trojan horse" to kill other cancer cells that have become drug resistant.
1/31/2022
A team of three graduate students from the Penn State Department of Architectural Engineering was named the honorable mention for the 2021 Howard Brandston Lighting Design Education Grant, presented by the Illuminating Engineering Society.
1/31/2022
The Penn State College of Engineering ranks fourth in the country for total research expenditures, according to the most recent National Science Foundation rankings of Higher Education Research and Development research expenditures, released in January 2022.
1/31/2022
As part of the course work for ME 340: Mechanical Engineering Design Methodology, undergraduate students from the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering created children’s science exhibits for the Discovery Space Science Museum in State College.
1/31/2022
Penn State-affiliated startup spotLESS Materials, which sells its super slippery coating technology as an assistive cleaning product, has raised more than $1.3 million of total venture capital funding to date, including $900,000 in a seed round that closed on Dec. 23, 2021.
1/27/2022
Jennifer Wagner, Penn State assistant professor of law, policy and engineering in the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, was appointed to serve on the American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.
1/27/2022
An interdisciplinary team of Penn State landscape architecture and civil engineering students was awarded second place in the biennial Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Design Competition, which focused on coastal resilience planning in Hampton, Virginia.
1/26/2022
U.S. News and World Report ranked Penn State World Campus among its "Best Online Programs" for 2022, with the University’s online graduate engineering programs tied for No. 3 overall and for veterans.
1/24/2022
A new study published this month by Penn State researchers using crime incident data found that opioid-related crime incident rates were positively associated with rates of opioid-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and overdose mortality.
1/24/2022
On behalf of the Penn State College of Engineering, Justin Schwartz, the Harold and Inge Marcus Dean in the College of Engineering, and Esther Adhiambo Obonyo, associate professor of engineering design and architectural engineering and director of the Global Building Network, received the Academic Ally award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) on Dec. 2, 2021.
1/24/2022
Penn State mechanical engineering researchers, including undergraduate student Dungan Adams, recently published results of their investigation into 3D printing a biopolymer.
1/20/2022
Double-pane windows, which sandwich a layer of insulating air, can offer improved energy efficiency over single-pane windows, but replacing existing single-pane windows can be expensive or technically challenging.
1/19/2022
Three 2021 graduates and two graduate students from the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science won second place in the student design contest at the 2021 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science Meeting in December.
1/19/2022
Doug Werner, John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State, has been named a fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
1/19/2022
Xueqi Zhao, industrial engineering doctoral student at Penn State, received the Best Student Paper Award in the Quality, Statistics and Reliability section at the 2021 Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting.
1/19/2022
Huanyu "Larry" Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, and his research team recently published a review paper that was featured on the cover of a special issue of the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing.
1/18/2022
Kelli Johnson, a fourth-year student in architectural engineering at Penn State, has been interested in art, science and math for as long as she can remember.
1/18/2022
Penn State has been awarded a $3.4 million contract from the REMADE Institute, a public-private partnership established by the United States Department of Energy, to fund research targeting the inefficient methods currently used to process and upcycle mixed plastic waste.
1/17/2022
Scarlett Miller, director of the Engineering Design program and associate professor of engineering design and industrial engineering, has been named director of the Penn State Center for Research in Design and Innovation (CRDI).
1/10/2022
Important optimization algorithms that are designed to solve large-scale problems such as airline schedules and supply chain logistics may soon get a boost from 2D materials that will enable the algorithms to better solve the problems and use less energy, according to Penn State researchers.
1/6/2022
Standard chemotherapies may efficiently kill cancer cells, but they also pose significant risks to healthy cells, resulting in secondary illness and a diminished quality of life for patients.
1/6/2022
A new software tool can accelerate materials science research by cutting out tedious background research on material properties.
1/5/2022
Advancements in additive manufacturing, commonly referred to as 3D printing, have the potential to significantly improve health care, allowing for surgical implants to be custom designed for each patient.
1/5/2022
Sahin K. Ozdemir, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, was elected a 2022 fellow of Optica, the international professional society formerly known as OSA.
1/5/2022
Rapid, accessible and highly accurate detection of addictive substances such as opiates and cocaine is vital to reducing the adverse personal and societal impacts of addiction, something current drug detection systems can take too long to provide.
1/3/2022
Penn State alumni of the national professional chemistry fraternity Alpha Chi Sigma have committed $1.5 million to endow scholarships in the three colleges where most of their members earned their degrees: the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, the College of Engineering, and the Eberly College of Science.
