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Maneesha Panicker at the Kochi Biennale 2019

Industrial engineering alumna starts enterprises in travel, hospitality services

4/9/19

Entrepreneur, world-traveler, business woman, engineer: these are all words that can be used to describe Penn State alumna Maneesha Panicker. She attributes her knowledge of industrial engineering and its connection to all the different studies instrumental in her personal success in the travel and hospitality industries. Service engineering, specifically, has had an immensely strong influence on her career and its path.

Aerial view of Beaver Stadium

Improving the fan experience at Penn State's Beaver Stadium

3/27/19

Penn State's Service Enterprise Engineering initiative and Penn State Athletics have worked together on two projects focused on optimizing the efficiency of concession stands and reducing women's restroom wait times at Beaver Stadium.

Two women looking at a computer screen as another woman points to the screen

Analyzing design team interaction

3/22/19

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will study the role team interactions have on engineering student teams’ performance during the design process.

Electricity power lines

Sloan Foundation grant looks at energy market structure for wind integration

2/26/19

Chiara Lo Prete, assistant professor of energy economics in Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, was awarded a $250,000 grant for early career researchers from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to examine the effectiveness of energy market structures in aggregating private information on wind production forecasts to better coordinate commitment and production decisions in electric systems.

Chuck Schneider and his late wife, Enid, pictured with their children and grandchildren.

Opening doors for engineering students and the service industry

2/8/19

Penn State alumnus Charles Schneider has gifted $1 million to the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering’s Service Enterprise Engineering Initiative (SEE 360) to endow the Charles and Enid Schneider Scholarship in Service Enterprise Engineering.

Man demonstrating how to use a mobile phone application to capture pulse rate

Visualizing vitals through video

12/3/18

Researchers from Penn State and Johns Hopkins University are working to develop additional capabilities by capturing vital signs of patients in resource-constrained environments with a device most Americans use every day — a cellphone camera.

A man in a warehouse looks through a virtual-reality headset.

NSF funds three-year study of virtual-reality engineering simulations

10/5/18

Researchers at Penn State Behrend and University Park are developing a virtual-reality simulation that will place engineering students in an interactive and immersive manufacturing environment. The National Science Foundation is supporting the project with nearly $300,000 in funding.

Old Main walkways cleared of snow

No more snow days?

9/28/18

Since 2010, the University Park campus has canceled classes just three full days due to snowfall. Much to the chagrin of students — and likely some faculty and staff — the snow day at Penn State may just have become even more elusive, thanks to software developed by recent industrial engineering graduate Achal Goel.

Connor Jennings

Grit and a great mentor gave this graduate student his competitive edge

9/24/18

Connor Jennings, a soon-to-be graduate of the industrial engineering graduate program, discusses how his adviser along with the rigorous curriculum and research with the Center for e-Design at Penn State have helped prepare him for an industry in which collaboration and communication are key.

distribution center, emergency room, electrical utility pole, food service

Penn State partners with engineering society to create service engineering award

9/17/18

The Service Enterprise Engineering Advisory Board within the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering has partnered with the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers to develop an international award that celebrates outstanding innovation in service systems engineering.

Stephen Richards recording data behind the Berkey Creamery counter

Engineering scholars investigate service system challenges on campus

9/13/18

Undergraduate industrial engineering students can apply what they learn in the classroom to real-world service system challenges by being selected as a Service Enterprise Engineering 360 scholar. Through collaborations with on-campus businesses such as the Penn State Berkey Creamery and Beaver Stadium, scholars have the opportunity to collect data and create formulas that could provide long-term improvements for these services.

Cody Heaton gets sworn in as UPUA President.

UPUA president uses engineering skills to be a better leader

9/12/18

Cody Heaton, an industrial engineering senior, uses his engineering skills to be a better leader. Heaton balances a variety of extracurriculars while serving as the University Park Undergraduate Association President and taking classes.

Tim Simpson receiving the ASME Robert E. Abbot Award.

Simpson receives two engineering design awards at international conference

9/4/18

Tim Simpson, a professor and researcher known for his knowledge within the realm of product design and additive manufacturing, was the recipient of two awards at the 2018 American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference.

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