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Cultivating leadership potential

8/2/18

Recently, the Engineering Leadership Development program piloted an opportunity for its upper-level students to develop coaching skills while exposing its younger students to the value of being coached. Students who had taken ENGR 422: Leadership of International Virtual Engineering Teams in a previous semester were eligible to serve as coaches for students enrolled in the spring 2018 section of ENGR 422.

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Retrofitting roofs in Pennsylvania's 'Rust Belt'

6/5/18

Esther Obonyo, associate professor of engineering design and architectural engineering, was awarded a $25,000 grant from Penn State’s Institutes of Energy and the Environment to design and test a new roofing composite. The project is part of a cross-institutional, multidisciplinary initiative led by Penn State New Kensington’s Corner Launchbox focused on refreshing the community’s image and economy.

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Penn State startup using technology to improve health care in developing nations

5/22/18

What if, with the tap of a finger, you could change or potentially save countless lives in a developing country? An interdisciplinary team of Penn State students is working to bring that concept to life. Their social venture project, Kijenzi, is a business model and application that aims to provide 3-D printing of medical equipment to rural areas of Kenya.

Michaella Caruso discusses HESE venture with students and judges

Diversity: the key to social impact

5/10/18

The Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program brings together students and faculty from multiple disciplines to research, design, field-test and launch technology-based ventures in low- and middle-income communities around the world. To increase the health and well-being of those who live in these communities, HESE students have established seven ventures that seek to impact the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Sean Knecht receives a large cardboard check from Pat Halphin-Murphy, the president and of the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition

Distinguishing dense tissue from cancerous tumors

5/7/18

Sean Knecht, assistant teaching professor in the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, was recently awarded a $50,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition to develop a real-time, portable photoacoustic imaging system that can effectively distinguish dense breast tissue from cancerous tumors.

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Engineering students explore prototyping through maker opportunities at Behrend

5/2/18

At Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, students in the honors sections of Charlotte de Vries’ EDGSN 100: Introduction to Engineering Design course have become more engaged in the classroom thanks to the ability to make Arduino prototypes. De Vries, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, started this project in the fall as a solution to lack of student engagement and interest in classes where students were unable to build actual prototypes.

Conrad Tucker with Bill Gates at the Millennium Scholars Program Celebration.

Engineering's Tucker attends Gates Millennium Scholars Program celebration

4/30/18

Conrad Tucker, associate professor of engineering design and industrial and manufacturing engineering, was invited by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to attend the Gates Millennium Scholars Program Celebration on April 24 in Seattle. Although there are more than 20,000 Gates Millennium Scholars and alumni of the program, Tucker was one of only approximately 30 scholars invited to the event.

Designing for the 'factory of the future'

4/24/18

As a stepping stone to improve automation in its factories, Lockheed Martin asked Engineering Design 100: Introduction to Engineering Design students to design a solution to one of five different challenges it currently faces during aircraft assembly.

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Engineering 100 students design prototypes aimed at smarter opioid control

4/19/18

To combat Pennsylvania’s opioid epidemic, Christopher McComb, assistant professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering, challenged his EDSGN 100 students to design and prototype a user-centered product or service aimed at smarter control of opioids. The product or service would ensure prescriptions are consumed at the right time, at the right dosage and by the right person.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Leading the way to better baobab processing

4/10/18

During spring break, Jess Hunter, Michaella Caruso, Annemarie Phandinh and Patrick Duda, four Engineering Leadership Development minor students, traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, to deliver their capstone project to a contact who is developing a business manufacturing baobab fruit powders and oils.

Michaella Caruso looking through a telescope in Paris

Global student spotlight: Michaella Caruso

4/4/18

Michaella Caruso always knew she wanted to study abroad in college. Now in her junior year at Penn State, she has already studied abroad three times — to China, France and Kenya.

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