While climate contributes strongly to fire activity in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the western U.S., human activity, starting well before European contact, has also played an important part in the severity, frequency and sheer numbers of forest fires occurring in the area, according to researchers.
To introduce Penn State’s first-year engineering students to the importance of sustainability and environmental protection, relating to fossil fuel extraction and consumption, Chevron has asked students enrolled in fall 2016 sections of EDSGN 100: Introduction to Engineering Design to improve upon some common industry practices.
For Frank Koe, associate professor of engineering entrepreneurship at Penn State, the principles of entrepreneurship aren’t just for innovative business owners — they are traits that can significantly contribute to living a fulfilled life. Teaching students to appreciate and use the entrepreneurial mindset is something Koe hopes to spread throughout the University as a member of the Schreyer Honors College Distinguished Honors Faculty Program for 2016-17.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
