Engineer receives 2016 IBM Faculty Award
10/24/16
Conrad Tucker, whose work with virtual and augmented realities has been gaining national publicity, was recently named a recipient of the 2016 IBM Faculty Award.
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Helping through design: Peter Lusch takes graphic design skills to Sierra Leone
10/18/16
Since joining the Penn State faculty two years ago, Peter Lusch, assistant professor of Graphic Design, has made an effort to connect with faculty doing work in sustainability and systems thinking to foster his own research. Those efforts paid off this summer, when he visited Sierra Leone with the Humanitarian Engineering Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Program, where they helped illiterate farmers learn to build and maintain greenhouses and grow produce via diagrams on a tablet.
Interdisciplinary arts and engineering team wins NSF grant to tour 'makerspace'
10/14/16
An interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers, led by primary investigator Aaron Knochel, assistant professor of art education, has received a two-year, $299,780 National Science Foundation grant to design and build a mobile makerspace to explore informal learning in science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) subjects.
Engineering's Tucker welcomes fellow Gates Millennium Scholar
9/16/16
Incoming Penn State freshman Teniola Idowu, is one of the 1,000 students to receive the honor of being named as a 2016 Gates Millennium Scholar, the last class of the program, and one of 29 students named to the fourth cohort of Penn State Millennium Scholars.
Tucker named director of Penn State CHOT site
9/12/16
Conrad Tucker, assistant professor of engineering design and industrial engineering, has been named the director of the Penn State site of the Center for Health Organization Transformation.
High school students enrich summer with program at Penn State
8/24/16
High school students searching for a unique summer opportunity can take advantage of all Penn State has to offer by taking part in the Summer Study program of Melville, New York.
Top design engineering award presented to Penn State Great Valley professor
8/24/16
Kathryn Jablokow, associate professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering at Penn State Great Valley, is the recipient of the 2016 Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She is only the second woman to receive this award since it was established in 2001.
Engineering student, faculty receive ASME best paper award
8/11/16
A paper authored by five Penn State engineers, will receive a best paper award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ (ASME) 36th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference – Virtual Environments and Systems.
Professor honored with prestigious engineering design award
7/28/16
Professor Gül E. Kremer has been named the recipient of the 2016 Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award, presented by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, for her outstanding contributions to engineering design.
Designing for disaster relief
7/19/16
To expose future engineers to this global challenge, student teams in seven sections of EDSGN 100 – Introduction to Engineering Design were tasked with investigating locations at risk for natural disasters and conflicts and designing a shelter for a location.
Remote robot connects engineering students, UMaine cohorts
7/18/16
Penn State Abington and Brandywine engineering majors used a mobile telepresence robot — an iPad attached to a self-balancing vehicle — to collaborate with students at the University of Maine.
Industrial engineers receive funding to enhance engineering education
6/30/16
A team of nine industrial engineers is working to identify a set of products that bundle goods and services, and develop rich cases studies, that will facilitate an integrated product-based approach to learning.
Student-built robo-inspector fends off flooding, erosion
6/29/16
Purchasing a $60,000 video robot to inspect stormwater pipes didn’t fit into the budget for one Pennsylvania municipality, so officials turned to students in Penn State's Philadelphia regional engineering degree. They delivered Stormbot on time and way, way under budget.
Fueling imaginations
6/17/16
Penn State hosted first- through fifth-graders from Our Lady of Victory Catholic School in State College for a tour of the Data Analysis Technology Advancement lab where the students explored some of the capabilities computer coding has in the fields of robotics and engineering.
Graduate students learn real-world problem-solving through interaction design
5/23/16
The College of Engineering’s course EDSGN 548/IE 548 Interaction Design provides graduate students with an integrative perspective on the types of human-centered design techniques that can be used to analyze existing consumer products and develop innovative solutions.