Still Life
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
Children explore career options at University Park
Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium
Did They Get It Right? - RedTails
Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012
We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)
Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
Though many college students view spring break as a time for rest and relaxation, a group of 17 Penn Staters spent their spring break building a home for a family in need. Engineering students from the groups Engineers Without Borders-Penn State (EWB-PSU) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), as well as students from the philanthropic group Boulevard, teamed up to spend a week in Warwick, Ga., helping the Fuller Center for Housing to construct a home. (more)
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) swept the Penn State Regional Rube Goldberg Contest for the fourth year in a row, winning first place overall and the People's Choice Award, on Saturday afternoon at the Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom. In addition to winning a trophy and cash prize, ASME earned the chance to represent Penn State at the national competition held on March 31 at Purdue University.
For photos of the event, go to http://live.psu.edu/flickrset/72157629277189985 More information about the event is available at: www.engr.psu.edu/RubeGoldberg. (more)
Compared to 30 days of radiation treatment, staying on her feet for 46 hours may feel like a walk in the park for Meghan Trahey. A civil engineering student and member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Trahey was diagnosed with medulloblastoma--pediatric brain cancer--in October 2008. After nearly three years in remission, she comes full circle as a dancer in the Penn State Interfraternal Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON) this weekend.
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A Pulitzer Prize winning artist and cartoonist, Rube Goldberg was best known for his "invention" cartoons depicting overly complex devices that perform everyday tasks. In the words of Goldberg, his machines were "a symbol of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to achieve minimal results." At Penn State's fifth annual "Rube Goldberg Machine contest", four teams of students presented contraptions that captured the spirit of Goldberg's art. Each machine -- required to dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer into a hand in 20 or more steps --was judged by a panel of Penn State engineering alumni on theme, flow, success ratio and creativity. This year's winner -- an Indiana Jones-inspired concept by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) team-- moves on to Purdue University for the national competition. (more)
Indiana Jones found a way to out run his competitors at this year's Penn State Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Feb. 27 at the HUB's Alumni Hall. This year's contest challenged teams to build a complex machine that dispensed an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer into a hand. A machine must complete a minimum of 20 steps -- the wackier the better -- in less than two minutes. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) team and their Indiana Jones-inspired machine took first place at the competition. (more)
Two Penn State mechanical engineering students recently placed in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Mechanism Design Competition, held in San Diego, Calif., from Aug. 30 to Sept. 2.
Cassie Niebel, a senior mechanical engineering major, was awarded first place in the mechanisms-undergraduate division for her work on designing an endoscopic biopsy needle; Andrew Rau, a graduate student of Mary Frecker, professor of mechanical engineering, was awarded third place in the mechanisms-graduate division for his work on designing an endoscopic forceps/tissue spreader. (more)
Kathryn Jablokow, associate professor of mechanical engineering and STS (science, technology and society) at Penn state Great Valley, was recently elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Of the nearly 100,000 ASME members, only 2,882 are Fellows, and only 66 of those Fellows are female. (more)
Moustafa El-Gindy, a senior scientist with the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL), has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).El-Gindy is the founder and director of ARL's Vehicle Dynamics and Simulation Research Center. He is also founder and executive director of the International Journal of Heavy Vehicles Systems and serves as chairman of ASME's Vehicle Design Committee. (more)
The Penn State chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) returned to campus recently with a number of awards from the ASME regional conference hosted April 3-4 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. (more)
