Karen A. Thole, distinguished professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State, has been awarded the 2019 Air Breathing Propulsion Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
An interdisciplinary team of 17 Penn State students recently placed first overall in the 2019 Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition, a contest designed to challenge undergraduate students to create unique solutions to complex wind energy projects. This is Penn State’s fourth victory in the competition in the last six years.
After 18 months of painstaking design and construction, a team of engineers witnessed equipment they built take to the skies, attached to a rocket launched in Norway. But they weren’t NASA scientists -- they were undergraduate students in the Penn State College of Engineering.
The College of Engineering partnered with The Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security to host a three-day workshop, a joint initiative to understand the evolving interactions between technology and our economic, political and social institutions, in Washington, D.C. A goal for participants was to learn how leaders use strategic foresight to better understand and anticipate changes that human-technology systems create and how to design strategies and develop options to better navigate those changes.
In 1942, Heinz Warneke sculpted the famous Nittany Lion Shrine from a 13-ton block of Indiana limestone. Seventy-six years later, the Penn State 3D Printing Club printed a multi-colored head of the Nittany Lion using 20 different filament materials.
The Naval Center for Space Technology at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., recently visited Penn State’s College of Engineering to kick-off a long-term plan for talent development between engineering students and Navy researchers.
David B. Spencer, professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, has been named the recipient of the 2018 International Astronautical Federation's Frank J. Malina Astronautics Medal. The Malina Medal is presented annually to an educator who has demonstrated excellence in taking the fullest advantage of the resources available to them to promote the study of astronautics and related space sciences.
After completing an extensive evaluation of institutions of higher learning, Solar Turbines Incorporated has chosen Penn State as a university partner to establish a center of excellence in gas turbines. The center involves numerous faculty across Penn State’s College of Engineering.
Penn State College of Engineering juniors and seniors in the upper 0.5 percent of their respective classes are being recognized with the Evan Pugh Scholar Award.
Belen Veras-Alba, doctoral student in the Penn State Department of Aerospace Engineering, recently received a 2017 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
The Penn State Wind Energy Club breezed through the field at the U.S. Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition 2017 Technical Challenge, held April 20-22 at the National Wind Technology Center near Boulder, Colorado — earning its third overall victory in four years at the Collegiate Wind Competition.
A team of Penn State engineering and business students will serve as one of five teams representing the United States at the 2017 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Global Grand Challenges Summit Student Day Competition on July 18 in Washington, D.C.
AHS International, The Vertical Flight Technical Society, recently awarded Vertical Flight Foundation scholarships to five Penn State Aerospace Engineering students.
Robert Veltre III, a Schreyer Honors Scholar and aerospace engineering major at Penn State, is the founder and race director of the Brave American Classic 5K and 10K, an annual event that supports military and veteran wellness. This year's race will be held March 4 in Pittsburgh.
On Aug. 30, 1983, Penn State alumnus Guion S. “Guy” Bluford became the first African-American astronaut to go to space, as a member of the crew aboard the third flight of the space shuttle Challenger. The Philadelphia native came to Penn State to earn a college degree, but graduated in 1964 with much more.
