Gul Kremer, associate professor of engineering design, will present "Complexity Propagation in Design, Assembly and Supply Logistics" at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 5, in 102 Leonhard Building on the University Park campus of Penn state. The talk, free and open to the public, is part of the ongoing Industrial Engineering Colloquium Series. (more)
Students in EDSGN 100 Introduction to Engineering Design will be displaying their solutions in the inaugural Design for Emerging Markets Showcase from 3:30 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 29, in Kunkle Lounge. (more)
Ongoing efforts that teach students to solve social problems in developing communities will now become a formal program in the College of Engineering. The Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program combines existing work in learning, research and entrepreneurial outreach that fosters positive social change throughout the world. (more)
The College of Engineering's Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Program has won the 2011 Outstanding Specialty Entrepreneurship Program Award from the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). The award recognizes an entrepreneurship program's development of an innovative, highly effective course or program for teaching entrepreneurship in a niche or specialty area. (more)
Matthew Parkinson, assistant professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering, was one of 53 of the nation's most innovative young engineering educators chosen to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) second Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium. (more)
A Penn State engineering student project was recently selected a winner of British Airways' 2010 Face-of-Opportunity prize. The project, WishVast: Building Trust and Social Capital Using Cellphones, is a cell phone-based network that harnesses the pervasiveness of cell phones in Africa to build trust, optimize resource utilization and supply chains, connect people and expand their social networks, facilitate peer-to-peer trade and help people emerge from poverty. (more)
A project to reduce helicopter blade noise and a supply chain shipping analysis took the top awards in the fall 2010 College of Engineering Project Design Showcase, held Dec. 9 at the HUB's Alumni Hall. (more)
The College of Engineering's Student Design Project Showcase will be held from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 9, in the HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall on Penn State's University Park campus.
Organized by the Learning Factory, the showcase will feature industry-sponsored capstone design projects from senior courses in agricultural, chemical, computer, electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering, as well as bioengineering and engineering design. (more)
Sven Bilen, associate professor of engineering design, electrical engineering, and aerospace engineering, has been appointed head of the School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs (SEDTAPP). He will serve a three-year term, through June 30, 2013. (more)
Often called the "miracle tree" for its potential to provide food, fuel and water in harsh environments, the moringa oleifera tree is at the center of a new effort by three Penn State engineers to provide clean drinking water to the developing world. The work -- funded by a year-long, $10,000 Environmental Protection Agency P3 grant -- seeks to optimize a water treatment process involving the moringa seed. (more)
