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Who participates in social entrepreneurship programs -- and why?

3/14/16

Though universities across the country have placed more of a focus on engineering entrepreneurship programs, the fields these programs emphasize – engineering, entrepreneurship and technology – often struggle to attract and retain female students.

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Not your grandfather's house, but maybe it should be

2/12/16

Everyone wants a house to live in, and more and more, people around the world want the kinds of houses seen in Europe and North America, rather than those they grew up with, according to a Penn State engineer. However, industrial building materials are often scarce and expensive and alternative, locally sourced, sustainable materials are often a better choice.

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‘Reinventing’ sustainability: A collaborative passion

9/29/15

A portable, lightweight wind turbine to assist with energy demands during a natural disaster; an on-campus food bank for hungry, food-insecure students; greenhouse technology to help small share farmers in Africa grow their own food and diversify their diets; and thousands of photographs taken to document the transformation in our local communities resulting from the Marcellus Shale boom. These are the creations of Penn State students with a passion for addressing sustainability issues — locally, regionally and across the globe — with assistance from the Reinvention Fund.

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Engineers tap materials expertise to tackle global problems

5/12/15

Khanjan Mehta is a man with a mission -- solving the problems that make it so difficult to provide energy, clean drinking water, food security, and health care to some of the poorest nations on Earth. As the founding director of HESE -- Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship -- in the College of Engineering, Mehta leads a group of engaged undergraduates who are designing new technologies and, equally important, figuring out how to get those technologies into the hands of the people who need them.

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Mashavu will provide East Africans virtual access to health care

4/26/10

Chubby cheeks on all of Kenya's children -- that's what Khanjan Mehta, senior research associate in the Department of Electronics and Computer Services in Penn State's College of Engineering, hopes for the future. By helping to create a program called Mashavu, meaning "chubby-cheeked" in Swahili and regarded by Kenyans as a sign of good health, he is doing his part to help.

Mehta wins entrepreneurship education award

2/10/09

Khanjan Mehta, senior research associate in electronics and computer services, has been recognized for his achievements with the 2008 Innovation in Teaching Entrepreneurship Award. He is one of just two professionals in the United States to win the Advanta-sponsored award.

Penn State senior wins $10,000 Ideablob competition

5/7/08

For the second time this year, a startup business idea generated at Penn State has won a national competition for the nation's best small business idea. Smeal College of Business senior Matt Allison won the April contest on Ideablob.com for his startup idea to produce a portable, electronic athletic training device. Representatives from Ideablob.com presented Allison with a $10,000 check on Thursday, May 8, in the Atrium of Smeal's Business Building.

Student project to help Tanzanian children wins $10,000 idea contest

3/18/08

A team of Penn State students have won $10,000 in an online contest that will help fund their project to aid Tanzanian children. The students, from the Colleges of Engineering, Health and Human Development, Business and Medicine, entered their project on ideablob.com to compete for the best social entrepreneurial idea. The team was pitted against seven other finalists during an online vote in February. According to Khanjan Mehta, one of the team's faculty advisers, the student project - called "Mashavu: Networked Health Solutions for the Developing World" - allows medical professionals to e-adopt children from the developing world through the use of modern communications technology.