JULY 2014

In the News
AE alum Dougherty explains the importance of mentoring MORE>>
 
College's Creativity, Innovation & Change MOOC named one of the best online classes  MORE>>
  
Lunar Lion's Michael Paul talks about the future of space travel  MORE>>
 
ESM alum Verlinich escorts President Obama on tour of Pittsburgh manufacturing studio MORE>>

Recognitions and Awards
Lanagan receives NSF Research Alliance award MORE>>
 
Ryan Patrick ('14 ME) receives prestigious Jefferson Award for public service MORE>>

 

ESM undergrad wins American Society for Nondestructive Testing award MORE>> 

 

Acoustics grad student receives two fellowships - for the second consecutive year MORE>>

 

Two Penn State engineers named Thomson Reuters highly cited researchers MORE>>

 

Around the College
Wong one of 83 selected to attend NAE US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium MORE>> 

Harmonosky named interim associate dean for undergraduate and graduate education MORE>> 

E-Knowledge Commons planned for Reber Building MORE>>

Litzinger named director of educational accreditation MORE>>

Gall seeks to understand the impact of emerging contaminants in wastewater MORE>>

Engineering Leadership Development program changes society...and students' lives MORE>>

Upcoming Events
July 11: Engineering Alumni & Friends Meet & Greet MORE>>
 
Nov.1: Alumni Tailgate  MORE>>
 
Nov.16-21: Global Entrepreneurship Week MORE>> 
 


 
CoverPhoto
About this month's cover photo:
College of Engineering faculty and staff were treated to ice cream on June 20, a gorgeous Penn State day. The Ice Cream Social, hosted by the Staff Advisory Committee, featured celebrity scoopers like Pat Chambers, PSU Men's Basketball Coach; Judy Todd, Engineering Science & Mechanics Department Head; Kenan Unlu, Breazeale Reactor Director; and Coquese Washington, PSU Women's Basketball Coach. 
 
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Creating Biomolecules that Save Lives
Associate professor of bioengineering creates tiny biomolecules that can deliver drugs, heal tissues, and kill cancer cells

Chasing cancer cells with chemotherapy drugs can save lives, but there's no guarantee that the treatment will kill every run-away cancer cell in the body.

 

What if, instead of hunting those metastatic cells, a treatment could lure them out of hiding-every last one of them-and eliminate them in one swift blow?

 

Yong Wang, associate professor of bioengineering, has created such a therapy-a tissue-like biomaterial that attracts cancer cells, like bits of metal to a magnet, and entraps them.

     

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Story6Prabhu Named IIE Fellow
Recognition celebrates his leadership and contributions to industrial engineering

Vittaldas Prabhu, professor of industrial engineering in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, was named a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. 

 

Prabhu's research interests are in the area of distributed control systems with a focus on manufacturing and service enterprises, with the goal of developing a unified mathematical and computational framework that enables engineering of distributed control systems consisting of discrete-events, physical processes, and service processes.

    

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Chemical Engineering Team Receives 3-Year NSF Grant
$400,000 award supports research to create biofilms on water purification membranes

A team of chemical engineers has received a $400,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to help prevent biofouling of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes.

 

The three-year grant is titled "Living Reverse Osmosis Membranes: Engineered Membrane Biofilms that Control Their Own Thickness, Prevent Biofouling and Degrade Contaminants."

 

"The objective of this proposal is to develop beneficial biofilm enhanced RO membranes," said Manish Kumar, assistant professor of chemical engineering and the grant's principal investigator.

 

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ARTICLE6Penn State's EcoCar 2 Team Finishes Third
Team brings home $14,500 in prize money for the Year Three Competition

   

Following its 2013 first-place finish, Penn State's Advanced Vehicle Team (AVT) won third overall and claimed a number of top honors at the EcoCAR 2 Year Three Competition.

 

In addition to its third-place finish, the Penn State team brought home eight other awards: Best Mechanical Presentation; Best AVL DRIVE Quality; Best Petroleum Energy Use Runner Up; Lowest Criteria Emissions Runner Up; Lowest Energy Consumption Runner Up; second place, Communications; third place, Clean Cities Collaboration Award; and Best Implementation Plan.

 

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors, EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future is a three-year contest that challenged 15 teams from colleges across North America to re-engineer a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu to increase fuel efficiency and decrease harmful emissions while maintaining performance, safety and consumer acceptability. 

 

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Penn State Offers First MOOC Entirely in Chinese
Course seeks to unlock and harness the power of participants' creativity to encourage innovative problem solving

A popular Penn State massive open online course (MOOC) that explores the science of creativity will be available in Chinese, making it the University's first dual-language MOOC.

 

The six-week MOOC, "Creativity, Innovation and Change," will open July 14. It will be taught by Penn State engineering faculty and hosted online by Coursera.

   

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Story6Lynch Receives Air Force Fellowship
Lynch will spend summer in Florida developing next-generation, cost-effective alloys for the Air Force

Paul C. Lynch, lecturer and academic adviser in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, has been selected to participate in the U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program.

 

The program offers hands-on exposure to Air Force research challenges through eight- to 12-week residencies at participating Air Force facilities for full-time science, mathematics and engineering faculty in the U.S.  

 

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