Our monthly email newsletter highlights just a few of the many ways that the Penn State College of Engineering works to inspire change and impact tomorrow.
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Four engineering faculty named fellows for STEM leadership program
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Four Penn State College of Engineering faculty — Zoubeida Ounaies, Jingjing Li, Christine Masters, and Rachel Brennan — were named to the 2020-21 class of fellows for Drexel University’s Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES at Drexel) program, a one-year national leadership development program designed to advance senior women faculty in academic engineering, computer science, and other STEM fields into effective institutional leadership roles within their schools and universities.
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Interdisciplinary team wins Department of Energy Optimization Challenge
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A team of Penn State researchers, led by Uday V. Shanbhag, the Gary and Sheila Bello Chair and professor in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, is part of the first round of winners for the Department of Energy's Grid Optimization Competition, a series of challenges to develop software management solutions for challenging power grid problems.
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Call for nominations: 40 Under 40
Alumni Award
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The Penn State College of Engineering is soliciting nominations for the 40 Under 40 Alumni Award. This award will recognize numerous Penn State engineering alumni 40 years of age and younger for their professional achievements. Nominations are due by Aug. 21.
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"Civil engineering is not a heavily represented field in the realm of space technology, but the future goals for human space exploration are starting to change that narrative, and I am proud to be a part of it."
Peter Collins, a civil engineering doctoral candidate, recently received
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Multidisciplinary, collaborative defense research team to be led by Penn State
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A Penn State team including researchers and contributors from the Departments of Nuclear Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Science and Mechanics will lead the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s new Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Matter University Research Alliance program, which consists of 12 nationally recognized universities and 10 partner institutions, national laboratories, and industrial companies.
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What inspires you?
Our undergraduate students share what inspires them most about becoming an engineer and the impact they hope to make in their careers.
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Self-assembling, biomimetic composites possess unusual electrical properties
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Composites, by definition, are composed of more than one component. Mixture rules say that, while the ratios of one component to another can vary, there is a limit on the physical properties of the composite. According to Melik Demirel, professor of engineering science and mechanics and holder of the Lloyd and Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in Biomimetic Materials, his team has broken that limit, at least on the nanoscale.
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"This research is super important because studies on motion of Salmonella cells under these conditions have never been done before."
Cassandra Nuñez, a Penn State electrical engineering rising junior, recently received a 2020 Erickson Discovery Grant to study the motion of Salmonella under antibiotic and heat stress.
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Industrial engineering students find 'presidential' success
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Three undergraduate students from the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering —
Benjamin Hartleb
, recent graduate,
Neel Mehta
, and
Dhir Agrawal
— were among 30 elite students selected to the Presidential Leadership Academy (PLA), a three-year program run by
Penn State President Eric J. Barron; Peggy A. Johnson, dean of the Schreyer Honors College; and Melissa Doberstein, PLA director. The mission of the PLA is to prepare students to make decisions in a “gray world.”
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