A gift from Airbus
Airbus Americas officials present the College of Engineering with a flap from an A300 wide-body aircraft. (Photo credit: Curtis Chan) Corporate donations are not unusual at Penn State. Companies will...
View ArticlePSFEI Summer Interns Impress Kutztown University Client
by Paul Meister, P.E. Student interns from the Penn State College of Engineering, working for the Penn State Facilities Engineering Institute, received accolades for their work at Kutztown University...
View ArticleSHPE Penn State Hosts Activities for Reading (PA) Families
SHPE Penn State members stand in front of Reading High School by Julia Abreu Recently, representatives from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Penn State hosted Noche de Ciencias at...
View ArticleCelebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week at Penn State
by Frank T. Koe, Ph.D. Global Entrepreneurship Week at Penn State will take place at University Park from November 17 to 22, 2013. Successful and up-and-coming business owners will be on hand to...
View ArticleArea middle school girls get first-hand look at engineering
Girls from two area middle schools teamed with Penn State engineering students to program robotic dance routines as part of their field trip to campus. One project had a Blue Band theme with a robotic...
View ArticleEngineering Leadership students’ outreach promotes STEM fields
by Joe Harford A team of three students in the Engineering 408 Leadership Principles class chose a semester project this year that would help promote science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)...
View ArticleELDM students provide Fall 2013 project updates
Students in the Engineering Leadership Development Minor (ELDM) work on projects with global implications and social relevance. Here are project updates provided by Fall 2013 ENGR 493 students: Baobab...
View ArticleWorking with Global Teams
by Dean A. Lippold Chances are high that in your career you will work on a global team. The team might be composed of people from different countries all working in the same office or it may be a...
View ArticleEngineering Leadership Development Faculty and Students Return to Benin
With the assembled baobab machine: kneeling: Kelly Mulcahey: standing (l to r): Anthony Aliberti, Manan Gill, Emma Hocker, Dan Normanyo, Dr. Kodzo Gbewonyo, BioResources International, and Chris Hersh....
View ArticleEntrepreneurial Cross-Training – More Questions than Answers
by Dr. Tim Simpson So what does it really take to get a good idea to market? How much of that can I do as a faculty member and how do I avoid conflicts of interest with my research and my students? How...
View ArticleThe New Leaf Initiative – A New Coworking Space in Downtown State College
by Dr. Tim Simpson If you are student, undergraduate or graduate, or faculty member wanting to do entrepreneurial “things” and haven’t heard of New Leaf Initiative yet, you are missing out on some...
View ArticleInside the Recruiter’s Mind…5 Need-to-Knows for Students
by Jonathan U. Dougherty, PhD (’99 AE, ‘06g) For students, career fairs represent dichotomy in action – intimidating and exhilarating – as you try to navigate the maze of company booths, make a good...
View ArticleIt’s always 65 degrees at the Eco-Machine
Rachel Brennan, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, back, shows Ozgul Calicioglu, a new doctoral student in her research group, how to clear out the duckweed in one of the...
View ArticleEngineering Students Selected to Present at PA State Capitol
Two College of Engineering students — Anthony Trezza and Nathan Deffenbaugh — will present their research at the 12th Annual Undergraduate Research at the Capitol—Pennsylvania Poster Conference in...
View ArticleWe’re looking for a few good engineers
The Engineering Ambassadors is an organization dedicated to promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics. By Adrienne Crivaro You too can be a Penn State Engineering Ambassador!...
View ArticleFemale high school students get a glimpse into the lives of Penn State...
As part of the Society of Women Engineers High School Stayover, students check out some of the majors and extracurricular activities Penn State offers during an involvement and majors fair in Kunkle...
View ArticlePenn State paper examines the state of the art in neural interface materials
Though engineers and doctors have been hard at work developing breakthroughs such as artificial limbs and therapies for spinal cord injuries, one of the greatest challenges is designing the neural...
View ArticleEngineers Without Borders Heads South for an Alternative Spring Break
by Nick Slavtcheff, ChE, Entrepreneurship (minor) ’16 Alternative Spring Break Coordinator, Engineers Without Borders at Penn State EWB volunteers gather on the last day of work to say goodbye to JoAnn...
View ArticlePenn State hosts Energy & Sustainability Day at The Navy Yard
by Colleen Lynch, PR ’14 Intern, GridSTAR On Wednesday March 19, Penn State held Energy and Sustainability Day at The Navy Yard in Philadelphia, as part of the Schreyer Honors College Shaping the...
View ArticleEngineering Ambassadors use robotic senior project to educate youth
Engineering Ambassador Brad Wile makes adjustments to an interactional robotic system that can be controlled by students. By Sabriana Pimental and Vanessa Cardy The Engineering Ambassadors for the Penn...
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