An interdisciplinary team composed of faculty from the Departments of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs recently received $50,000 from the College of Engineering’s Engineering for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (ENGINE) grant program for its project focused on 3D-printed concrete.
Traffic signals serve to regulate the worst bottlenecks in highly populated areas but are not always very effective. Researchers at Penn State are hoping to use deep reinforcement learning to improve traffic signal efficiency in urban areas, thanks to a one-year, $22,443 Penn State Institute for CyberScience Seed Grant.
A research paper submitted by faculty and students in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State has been honored with the 2019 Outstanding Article Award by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Journal of Advances in Civil Engineering Materials.
Five Penn State Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty members have been selected for promotion and/or tenure, effective July 1, 2019.
Ali Memari, professor of civil and architectural engineering, Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction, and director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center at Penn State, was recently named the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Architectural Engineering, produced by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Researchers say burning a mixture of coal and crop residue biomass might provide a cost-effective, net carbon-negative electricity source that can be scaled to commercial levels in China in order to meet global temperature objectives by mid-century.
Emmanuel Fonseca, a doctoral student in environmental engineering at Penn State, is the first of his family to attend college and strives to be an inspiration to his younger siblings through his own successes.
Penn State is one of 20 organizations that will share $25 million in grants from Google.org; credit and consulting from Google Cloud; and coaching by Google’s AI experts, as a grantee of the Google AI Impact Challenge.
Through its unique opportunities focused on social entrepreneurship and humanitarian technology development, the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program attracts a diverse group of Penn State students wanting to inspire change. Together, these students help to solve problems using technology-based, sustainable approaches that impact millions of lives around the world.
Olivia Rockwell, a senior civil engineering student at Penn State, describes herself as someone who is always up for a challenge. That's why she made sure to immerse herself in a wide variety of clubs and organizations outside of her engineering studies, like Penn State Homecoming, the Swing Dance Club, the Ukulele Club and the Nittany Grotto Caving Club.
A research paper written by Patrick Fox, the John A. and Harriette K. Shaw Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, has been honored with the 2018 Editor’s Choice Award by Geosynthetics International, an official journal of the International Geosynthetics Society.
Aleksandra Radlińska, assistant professor of civil engineering at Penn State, was recently named chair of the Concrete Research Council for the American Concrete Institute.
Penn State researchers aim to develop a driver-in-the-loop, vehicle simulator tool in order to better understand the effects that Connected and Autonomous Vehicle technology has on commuting behavior, thanks to a $60,000 Multidisciplinary Research Seed Grant.
Penn State’s 3D printing team, PennStateDen@Mars, has advanced to Phase 3, Level 4 of the NASA 3D-Printed Habitat Competition, after capturing a third-place victory in Phase 3, Level 3 of the competition.
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.
