It is with sadness that we share the passing of Jean Landa Pytel, former assistant dean for student services and global programs and associate professor of Penn State ESM, on March 15, 2018.>>
APRIL 2018
FEATURES
Gift from FirstEnergy Foundation to support Capstone Design project program
The FirstEnergy Foundation, solely funded by FirstEnergy Corp., has donated $175,000 to support the Penn State College of Engineering's Learning Factory Senior Capstone Design projects at the University Park, Behrend and Berks campuses.>>
Microengineered slippery rough surface for water harvesting from air
A slippery rough surface (SRS) inspired by both pitcher plants and rice leaves outperforms state-of-the-art liquid-repellent surfaces in water harvesting applications, according to a team of researchers at Penn State and the University of Texas at Dallas.>>
Cutler receives NSF grant to advance engineering education research
Stephanie Cutler, assessment and instructional support specialist for the Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education in Penn State's College of Engineering, has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to advance engineering education research through peer review analysis.>>
Extracellular vesicles could be personalized drug delivery vehicles
Creating enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system may be as simple as putting the cells through a sieve, according to an international team of researchers who used mouse autologous - their own - immune cells to create large amounts of fillable nanovesicles to deliver drugs to tumors in mice.>>
Radiation Science and Engineering Center to test nuclear reactor vessel monitoring device
Penn State's Radiation Science and Engineering Center (RSEC) and Westinghouse Electric Company have been awarded a $789,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) under the DoE's Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies awards program.>>
RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS
Twelve alumni to receive College of Engineering's highest honor>>
Janik receives 2018 Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching>>
Civil engineering's Radlinska named American Concrete Institute Fellow>>
MNE professors named inaugural Fellows of the Combustion Institute>>
Cao and alumnus to receive IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time Paper Award>>
Radlinska receives Hartz Family Career Development Professorship in Engineering>>
Randolph awarded Harold K. Schilling Dean's Graduate Scholarship>>
Civil engineering student receives Distinguished Master's Thesis Award >>
Senior Emily Leight awarded S. Balachandran Service Scholarship >>
Nuclear alumna Suzanne Keenan elected to NERC Board of Trustees >>
AROUND THE COLLEGE
Two College of Engineering programs make significant jumps in U.S. News graduate rankings>>
