The Penn State Facilities Engineering Institute invites facility professionals to register for its upcoming facilities management course — Fundamentals of High Performance Buildings (FHPB). Scheduled for April 23 to 25 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center in State College, the FHPB course previously has only been offered to General Service Administration personnel.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will study the role team interactions have on engineering student teams’ performance during the design process.
In December 2018, a team of five Penn State students from the College of Arts and Architecture, the Eberly College of Science, the College of Engineering, and the College of Information Sciences and Technology joined forces to earn the top spot in the international Kaggle University Hackathon, the first-ever university hackathon of its kind.
Penn State civil engineering senior Nicole Dato was named one of the 10 American Society of Civil Engineers 2019 New Faces of Civil Engineering in the college category.
Xiaojun "Lance" Lian, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was one of three recipients of the College of Engineering's ENGineering for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (ENGINE) grant for "Small Molecule-Based Definitive Endoderm Kit and Pancreatic Progenitor Kit for Stem Cell Research and Therapy." The project focuses on differentiating stem cells into pancreatic beta cells to be used for therapies to treat Type 1 diabetes.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center has named Penn State as a new site within the Membrane Science, Engineering and Technology (MAST) Center. The University will join the University of Colorado Boulder, the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the University of Arkansas as MAST Center sites.
The Ballantyne and Leonard Foundation has made commitments totaling $500,000 to support the Summer Founders Program, an Invent Penn State initiative, and students in the Penn State College of Engineering.
Students from Penn State's Schreyer Honors College had their perspectives changed during a service trip to an orphanage in Entebbe, Uganda this winter.
Madhubala Ayyamperumal, a Penn State graduate student who is pursuing degrees in architecture and architectural engineering, was selected from a pool of more than 200 applicants from across the globe to attend Skidmore, Owings and Merrill’s Women’s Initiative Shadowing Program in Chicago earlier this semester.
Jack Iffert, Schreyer Scholar and senior in civil engineering in the College of Engineering at Penn State, has been named recipient of the 2019 Ralph Dorn Hetzel Memorial Award.
Daniela Staicu, a Romanian Fulbright Scholar who is currently at Penn State conducting research with the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program, was among those invited to attend the launch of the Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative at the White House.
Several outstanding students in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering were honored in the E-Knowledge Commons on March 13.
Twelve Penn State engineering graduates will be honored April 8 at the College of Engineering’s annual Outstanding Engineering Alumni Awards ceremony at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.
The Penn State Alumni Association will honor prominent young alumni at the Alumni Achievement Awards on March 29.
Brianne Santarelli, business improvement lead at Air Products, has been awarded the 2019 Penn State Mechanical Engineering Society (PSMES) Early Career Award.
