APRIL 2014

CEARL Receives More than $3 Million from Department of Defense

Tucker Tapped for Air Force Fellowship

ME Professor Earns NSF Grant

NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center Created at Penn State

Students Seek Funding for Mobile Response Unit

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In the News

Lunar Lion Aims for the Moon MORE>>

Advanced Vehicle Team Readying for Last Phase of Eco-Car Competition MORE>>

PSU Engineers Introduce Method of Extracting Fingerprints Aimed to Improve ID of Criminals MORE>>

Apparatus X Featured in Wired Magazine MORE>>

Aerospace Engineering's Maughmer Designs for Red Bull Air Race World Championships MORE>>

Recognitions and Awards

US News & World Report Ranks Penn State Engineering Graduate Program 25th in the Country MORE>>

EE's Urbina Named Fulbright Scholar MORE>>

Engineering Faculty & Staff Recognized with University-wide Awards MORE>>

Architectural Engineering Students Excel at AEI Competition MORE>>

ChE Undergrads Win National Poster Competition for Research MORE>>

Around the College

Engel Named Associate Vice Provost at Penn State Outreach & Online Education MORE>>

Navy Yard Changes Name to Consortium for Building Energy Innovation MORE>>

O'Connor Earns Volvo Mechanical Engineering Faculty Fellowship MORE>>

Tiny Power Generator Runs on...Spit MORE>>

GridSTAR Hosts Energy & Sustainability Day MORE>>

Students Spending Summer Building a Bridge in Panama MORE>>

Engineers Without Borders Spend Spring Break of Service MORE>>

Cross-University Team Prepares for DOE Wind Competition MORE>>

High School Women Get Glimpse of Life as Penn State Engineering Students MORE>>

Upcoming Events

April 13: Engineers Without Borders Golf Outing MORE>>

April 29-30: 2014 Intro to Center for Acoustics & Vibration Workshop MORE>>

May 1: College of Engineering Design Showcase and Industry Partners' Reception, Bryce Jordan Center MORE>>

May 2: Architectural Engineering Lecture and Thesis Presentations MORE>>

May 9: Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony. Bryce Jordan Center. 8:00 pm.

May 11: Graduate Commencement Ceremony. Bryce Jordan Center. 6:30 pm.

June 1-6: 18th Annual Short Course. Corrosion: Fundamentals & Experimental Methods. MORE>>

Nov.1: Alumni Tailgate MORE>>

About this month's cover photo:

Industrial engineering senior and Schreyer Scholar Allie McIlvaine pictured above the Factory for Advanced Manufacturing Education Laboratory in the Leonhard Building. She is the recipient of the Julia and Brent Beabout Honors Scholarship in Industrial Engineering. Read more student and alumni stories in this year's Impact brochure. (Photo credit: Curtis Chan)

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CEARL Receives More Than $3 Million in DOD Funding

The two research programs center on developing new antenna technology

Penn State Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Laboratory is participating in two new U.S. Department of Defense-sponsored research programs for the application of metamaterial design techniques to high-performance antennas.

The goal of the programs is to prove the usefulness and wide applicability of metamaterial and transformation optics design to the greater electromagnetics community by demonstrations of advanced antenna capabilities.

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Tucker Selected for Prestigious Air Force Fellowship Program

Proposal focuses on using social media data as predictor of requirements for and threats to the U.S. electric power grid

Conrad Tucker, assistant professor of engineering design and industrial engineering, has been selected to participate in the U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program.

Tucker will spend eight weeks at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on a proposal titled, Quantifying the Veracity of Social Media Networks in Predicting Real World Phenomena.

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Moore Receives NSF Grant

Funding supports collaborative research in tissue cutting

Jason Moore, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has accepted a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support a collaborative research project with Yuan-Shin Lee at North Carolina State University.

The funding will support a study of how vibration can affect the forces of needles cutting tissue.

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Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics Created

CDP is NSF multi-university Industry/University Cooperative Research Center

A new Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics, supported by the National Science Foundation and co-located at Penn State and North Carolina State University, will build on and expand the research capabilities of Penn State's long-running Center for Dielectrics Studies.

The new center is an NSF multi-university Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, with 18 inaugural industry partners. The NSF will provide $830,000 over five years to support operations and infrastructure, with additional funding coming from member companies and organizations

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Students launch crowdfunding effort to raise $15,000

Funds sought complete mobile workshop for victims of natural disasters

A student effort to build a mobile workshop to aid victims of natural disasters recently launched a campaign to complete the project.

The month-long campaign through the fundraising platform Indiegogo seeks to raise $15,000.

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