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Engineering leadership development students tour a Lockheed Martin hangar

Developing engineering leadership through experiential learning

4/19/18

From learning about smart manufacturing at Rockwell Automation to viewing helicopter simulators at Lockheed Martin and testing tracks at General Motors, Engineering Leadership Development (ELD) students travel to industry supporters’ facilities throughout the year in order to gain more industry experience.

Hospital building rendering during the daytime

Building a better health care environment

4/19/18

As part of the 2018 national Architectural Engineering Institute Student Design Competition, 10 Penn State architectural engineering undergraduate students worked to create a cohesive, adaptable, patient-focused, state-of-the-art children’s hospital located in Omaha, Nebraska. The team received honors in the construction, mechanical, structural, integration and innovation categories.

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Engineering a musician

4/16/18

Students in ENGR 310: Entrepreneurial Leadership are given the opportunity to find solutions for challenges faced by real entrepreneurs in their businesses. Last semester, the class worked to help Cassandra Sotos, a Penn State industrial engineering alumna, launch a solo career in the music industry.

Career counselor graduate students

Inaugural year of career counseling-engineering partnership sees great success

4/16/18

A partnership established in the summer of 2017 between Diandra Presod in the College of Education and Eric Marsh in the College of Engineering has proven successful for undergraduate students in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering as well as for the master's and doctoral students training to be career counselors.

Asked and Answered: Graduate Education (April 16, 2018)

4/16/18

Penn State is committed to each graduate student successfully earning the advanced degree they came here to pursue. In this installment of ‘Asked and Answered,’ watch as Penn State faculty describe the individualized training they provide each student.

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Lesley Ross to chair transportation committee on safe mobility of older persons

4/13/18

The Larson Transportation Institute (LTI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Lesley Ross, associate professor of human development and family studies at Penn State, to chair the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine standing committee on Safe Mobility of Older Persons, as selected by the Transportation Research Board.

Jessica Menold

Redesigning the risky business of product development

4/13/18

Jessica Menold, assistant professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering, will use a three-year, $150,000 award from Johnson & Johnson to decrease the number of failed prototypes and wasted resources by developing a more defined prototyping framework.

Students work in the Learning Factory on March 20, 2018.

Female students ‘take over’ the Learning Factory on Ladies’ Night

4/12/18

The sound of whirring band saws, swinging hammers and the screeching of metal being cut filled the air at Penn State’s Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory on March 20, the same as any other night. But there was one stark difference. The workshop was filled exclusively with female students.

Sarah Root teaching an industrial engineering course

Engineering students work with real data to tackle service sector challenges

4/12/18

The application of real data to classroom problems is allowing Penn State industrial engineering students to take their learning one step further. Professor Vittal Prabhu developed a case study based on data from an electric utility company to help students apply engineering techniques to real-life situations.

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