Ten students receive Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Awards
4/27/18
Ten Penn State graduate students received the 2018 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award.
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Three graduate students honored with Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award
4/27/18
Three Penn State graduate students ─ John Banghoff, Min Liew, and Elena Vazquez ─ have been awarded the Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award.
Fourteen graduate students receive the Alumni Association Dissertation Award
4/27/18
Fourteen graduate students received the Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award and Distinguished Doctoral Scholar Medal in recognition of their outstanding professional accomplishments and achievements in scholarly research in any of the disciplinary areas of arts and humanities; social sciences; physical and computational sciences; life and health sciences; and engineering.
Penn State Law launches Legal-Tech Virtual Lab with ROSS Intelligence pop-up
4/26/18
Penn State Law launched its new Legal-Tech Virtual Lab on April 17 with a pop-up event in University Park with legal-tech company ROSS Intelligence. The event, co-sponsored by the College of Engineering and Penn State Information Technology, trained Penn State students on EVA, ROSS Intelligence’s new free, publicly accessible artificial-intelligence-powered legal research tool.
CNEU Nanotechnology Summer School to aid students impacted by Hurricane Maria
4/26/18
The Penn State Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization recently received funding from the National Science Foundation to establish a Nanotechnology Summer School at Penn State to aid students from the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao who were adversely affected by Hurricane Maria.
A simple method etches patterns at the atomic scale
4/26/18
A precise, chemical-free method for etching nanoscale features on silicon wafers has been developed by a team from Penn State and Southwest Jiaotong University and Tsinghua University in China.
Architectural engineering's Bahnfleth honored with ASHRAE Holladay award
4/26/18
William P. Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering, has been named ASHRAE’s 2018 recipient of the Louise and Bill Holladay Distinguished Fellow Award.
Engineering team wins grand prize for water-saving, impactful tech
4/26/18
Student and faculty engineers in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering created a liquid-entrenched smooth surface coating, an innovative spray-able, anti-fouling coating that dramatically decreases the amount of water needed when flushing a toilet.
Penn State places 1st at 2018 Race to Zero Student Design Competition
4/24/18
The Penn State student team won first place in the Suburban Single-Family Housing Contest of the U.S. Department of Energy Race to Zero Student Design Competition on April 22.
Invent Penn State names James Adair 'Inventor of the Year'
4/24/18
James Adair, Penn State professor of materials science and engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacology, has received the Invent Penn State "Inventor of the Year" award.
Gorski to use NSF CAREER award to expand access to clean water and electricity
4/24/18
Christopher Gorski, assistant professor of environmental engineering at Penn State, will develop devices that use electricity to desalinate water and can also generate their own electricity, thanks to an esteemed National Science Foundation Early Career (CAREER) award.
Designing for the 'factory of the future'
4/24/18
As a stepping stone to improve automation in its factories, Lockheed Martin asked Engineering Design 100: Introduction to Engineering Design students to design a solution to one of five different challenges it currently faces during aircraft assembly.
Engineering service solutions
4/23/18
Penn State’s Enterprise Networking and Communication Services turned to engineering students to help improve the unit’s service to the University community by sponsoring capstone projects through the Learning Factory.
72 undergraduate students awarded Erickson Discovery Grants
4/22/18
The list of 2018 Erickson Discovery Grants has been released, and 72 students from Penn State campuses will have their work bolstered by a $3,500 grant from the Office of Undergraduate Education.
Engineering 100 students design prototypes aimed at smarter opioid control
4/19/18
To combat Pennsylvania’s opioid epidemic, Christopher McComb, assistant professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering, challenged his EDSGN 100 students to design and prototype a user-centered product or service aimed at smarter control of opioids. The product or service would ensure prescriptions are consumed at the right time, at the right dosage and by the right person.