Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Xiangyu Dong, a graduate student in computer science and engineering (CSE) at Penn State, was named one of three winners in the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Research Competition Grand Finals 2011 on June 4 in San Jose, Calif. (more)
Monday, April 25, 2011
Abhradeep Guha Thakurt, a graduate student in computer science and engineering in Penn State's College of Engineering, has received the Yahoo! 2011 Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Program Award. (more)
Monday, March 21, 2011
Three Penn State engineering faculty members have each received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. The faculty members are Enrique Gomez, assistant professor of chemical engineering; Daniel Kifer, assistant professor of computer science and engineering; and Suzanne Shontz, assistant professor of computer science and engineering. (more)
Saturday, December 11, 2010
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)
Monday, April 05, 2010
Mary Jane Irwin, the A. Robert Noll chair of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State, was named the 2010-11 Athena Lecturer by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Council on Women in Computing. (more)
Monday, March 22, 2010
Byung Chul Tak, a doctorate candidate in computer science and engineering, has been awarded an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship for the 2010-11 academic year. The IBM Ph.D. Fellowships are an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honor exceptional doctoral students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study. (more)
Monday, March 08, 2010
Swarat Chaudhuri and Bhuvan Urgaonkar, both assistant professors of computer science and engineering at Penn State, have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards. (more)
Monday, December 14, 2009
Half a dozen teams were awarded Lockheed Martin Design Awards for their efforts at this semester's Engineering Design Project Showcase.
The semester-long projects give students the opportunity to solve real-world engineering problems posed by industry sponsors. The effort culminated in the Engineering Design Project Showcase, held on Dec. 10 at the HUB's Alumni Hall.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Igor Jablokov, CEO of Yap, Inc., a company specializing in audio-to-text conversions, will be the first speaker for the Norbert and Audrey Gaelen Entrepreneur Speaker Series for the fall 2009 semester. His presentation will be on "The Origins of Yap Inc.: How do You Start a Company in an Industry Filled With Loud Mouths?" (more)
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Kevin Butler, a computer science and engineering doctoral student, has won one of three graduate fellowships from Symantec Research Labs for the 2009-2010 academic year. Butler will work closely this summer with Symantec researchers in Santa Monica and Mountain View, Calif., on developing policies and understanding usability requirements for securing data storage. Symantec will also pay Butler's tuition and fees, along with a competitive stipend to fund his ongoing research. The Symantec fellowship organizers look for outstanding Ph.D. and M.S. students who are working on research projects likely to have real-world practical value in information security, availability and integrity. (more)
