A wearable energy-harvesting device could generate energy from the swing of an arm while walking or jogging, according to a team of researchers from Penn State's Materials Research Institute and the University of Utah. The device, about the size of a wristwatch, produces enough power to run a personal health monitoring system.
Originally from Taiwan, doctoral candidate Kai-Wen Tien is focusing his research on how to achieve smart manufacturing through smart maintenance.
A new concept in energy harvesting could capture energy currently wasted due to its characteristic low frequency and use it to power next-generation electronic devices, according to a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers.
A team of researchers and analysts from Penn State, Case Western Reserve University, the GE Global Research Center and Microsoft are working on a $1.5 million collaborative research project to develop a cloud-based wireless sensing and prognostic system for monitoring machinery health conditions.
The National Science Foundation has provided $299,954 in funding to a team led by Penn State's Hui Yang, Harold and Inge Marcus Career Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, for research focused on improving health care delivery to cardiac surgery patients.
Aman Haque, professor of mechanical engineering, was one of three recipients of funding through the College of Engineering’s ENGineering for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (ENGINE) grant program for his project “Powering the Internet of Things.”
Soundar Kumara, Allen E. Pearce/Allen M. Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering at Penn State, will be a featured panelist at upcoming industry conferences hosted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences this fall.
Through a partnership with technology company littleBits, Penn State is opening a new "Invention Studio" within the University Libraries' Knowledge Commons to inspire students to develop research, invoke entrepreneurship, and explore new ideas through creative coursework.
Teaching and Learning with Technology will debut MAKEiT, a new full-day education technology event, on Oct. 5 at the Nittany Lion Inn in University Park. MAKEiT will be hands-on and will focus on rising technologies such as 3-D printing, Internet of things, designed learning spaces and rapid prototyping.
Deepak Agrawal and Cheng-Bang Chen, doctoral students in industrial engineering, along with their doctoral adviser, Soundar Kumara, Allen E. Pearce/Allen M. Pearce Professor in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State, received best paper honors at the recent Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Annual Conference and Expo in Nashville, Tennessee.
