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Mohamad Darayi

Penn State Great Valley welcomes new systems engineering professor

8/16/17

Mohamad Darayi, assistant professor of systems engineering, joins Penn State Great Valley’s engineering division from the University of Oklahoma. This fall, he will teach Decision and Risk Analysis in Engineering and Deterministic Modeling and Simulation.

Summer 2017 World Campus graduation celebration student speakers

Online was the only way these grads could get their master’s degrees

8/11/17

For Penn State World Campus students Rohit Anand and Stephanie Paluda, completing their master’s degrees online was the best way for them to advance their careers. They’ve realized their goals, as they will graduate Aug. 12 during the University’s 2017 summer commencement.

Chu and Hakola

Marines Corps officers earn master’s degrees from Penn State fellowship

8/10/17

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Matt Hakola and Maj. Adam Chu will graduate Aug. 12 with a master of professional studies in supply chain management after completing their degrees through a special partnership between the Marines, Penn State World Campus and the Smeal College of Business.

The IST student marshal for the summer of 2017, Chase Kelly, poses with the Penn State Nittany Lion.

Navy veteran, IST student marshal gets ‘best of both worlds’ with World Campus

8/8/17

Chase Kelly, a United States Navy veteran and graduating senior in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, thought attending Penn State World Campus meant that although he’d have the flexibility of an online education, he’d be missing out on the social interactions of a resident program. But as he approached his graduation, he says he got the best of both worlds.

Lori Levan gives a demonstration

Revised Art of Drawing online course to be offered this fall

8/8/17

Like the art of drawing itself, Art 020: Introduction to Drawing, a fully online general education course, has taken time to perfect. The Office of Digital Learning first offered the course online in 2007, but recently completed an extensive revision resulting in an essentially all-new course, which is successfully piloting this summer.

Penn State Smeal hosts, Cameron co-leads new Online MBA Consortium

8/4/17

Brian Cameron, associate dean for Professional Graduate Programs at the Penn State Smeal College of Business, and colleagues from the college recently hosted a two-day meeting of the Online MBA Consortium (OMC), which comprises the top 10 online MBA programs in the country.

Hammond uses unique skills to lead PSU Smeal marketing analytics certificate

7/17/17

Chelsea Hammond, who combines 10 years of industry experience with a doctorate in communication science, heads Smeal's new Graduate Certificate in Marketing Analytics and will teach the first of the program's four courses. The application deadline for fall 2017 enrollment in the program is Aug. 1.

Penn State Nittany Watson Challenge Transfer Credit Team

Penn State team addresses transfer credit challenge using IBM Watson

6/28/17

A Penn State team is working with artificial intelligence technology to find a solution to the cumbersome task of approving transfer credits for students wishing to enroll at the University from another institution. The team is part of the Nittany Watson Challenge, a Penn State EdTech Network initiative with IBM that began in January.

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