Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Penn State Engineering Ambassadors program has been named the winner of the 2012 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc. Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for its efforts in diversity and inclusiveness. (more)
Monday, April 23, 2012
Karen Thole, head of mechanical and nuclear engineering, was presented with the 2012 Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award at the annual Commission for Women luncheon on April 16 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. (more)
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Eight engineering students were honored at the annual College of Engineering Research Symposium (CERS) on April 5 at the Nittany Lion Inn. (more)
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Six engineering graduate students were recognized and received awards for their presentations in the 27th Annual Graduate Exhibition, held March 23 and 25 on Penn State's University Park campus. (more)
Monday, March 26, 2012
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)
Monday, March 26, 2012
After months of designing and simulating hybrid concept designs, the Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team (PSU AVT) will host an event to publicly reveal its final vehicle architecture for the three years of the national competition known as EcoCAR2: Plugging In to the Future.
The event will take place from noon to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, outside the Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute on University Drive and Hastings Road on the University Park campus of Penn State. Penn State community members and the general public are invited to stop by and learn about the vehicle architecture, as well as meet the dedicated team of students that designed it. (more)
Monday, March 19, 2012
Massoud Kaviany, professor of mechanical engineering and applied physics at the University of Michigan, will speak at 4 p.m. on March 27, in 135 Reber Building on the University Park campus of Penn State, as part of George M. Dusinberre Distinguished Lecture Series in Thermal-Fluid Systems. (more)
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Ramesh Talreja, Tenneco Endowed Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, will speak at 4 p.m. on March 20 in 135 Reber Building as part of the Air Products Distinguished Lecture Series. (more)
Monday, February 20, 2012
Participating in an international experience traditionally means study abroad or a similar college program. But an engineering leadership course is letting students learn in a global context without having to leave the confines of campus. The class, International Leadership of Enterprise and Development (ILEAD), teams students in Penn State's engineering leadership program with economics students at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, using the latest information technology available.
For photos of the engineering students' experience in Budapest, go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/pennstatelive/sets/72157629423081617/ (more)
Thursday, February 09, 2012
The Penn State student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-PSU) recently returned from its second trip to Sierra Leone, Africa, where they continued their ongoing projects in the village of Baoma, located nearby to the coastal city of Freetown. Five students, faculty adviser John Lamancusa and two professional mentors made this second trip to Africa over winter break. The group is working on two projects for the people of Baoma: a latrine for the children at the Covenant Preparatory School and a project to improve the quality of the village's water supply. The technical mentor for the latrine project is Rich Kercher, a project manager at Gannett Fleming, and the technical mentor for the water project is Mark Ralston of Converse Consultants. (more)
