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12/14/2023
Penn State has been selected by the Department of Defense (DoD) as a partner for two of the four newly created DoD research centers of excellence. The Penn State principal investigators discuss Penn State's role in the centers and the research they plan to conduct.
12/7/2023
Yifan Lu has been named the fall 2023 student marshal for the Penn State College of Engineering. Commencement will be held at 9 a.m. on Dec. 16 in the Bryce Jordan Center at University Park.
12/7/2023
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, spoke with Penn State News on Penn State’s efforts to build relationships between India and the U.S. in higher education.
12/1/2023
Syed Rafiul Hussain, the Charles K. Etner Early Career Assistant Professor in Penn State’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will lead a team of graduate students in researching how to detect and avert threats to 5G communications.
11/20/2023
At its annual awards ceremony, the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) recognized engineering faculty, staff and alumni members for outstanding teaching, research, advising and service.
11/16/2023
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, a power grid expert, answers questions on a three-year, $450,000 NSF grant that addresses oscillations in power grid operations.
11/13/2023
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Electron Devices Society honored Abhronil Sengupta, the Joseph R. and Janice M. Monkowski Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State, with its Early Career Award.
11/13/2023
A team of Penn State researchers received the Best Poster/Demo Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiHoc 2023, held Oct. 23-26 in Washington, D.C.
11/10/2023
The Learning Factory provides a unique opportunity for students to partner with industry sponsors with a shared goal — to educate the next generation of world-class engineers using state-of-the-art facilities for design, prototyping and fabrication.
11/9/2023
The Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team (AVT) competed in the second year of competition for AutoDrive Challenge II from June 4-10 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After a successful showing in year one of competition, Penn State AVT returned to take home eight top-three recognitions in year two.
11/6/2023
Christos Argyropoulos, associate professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, was elected a 2024 fellow of OPTICA, the professional society for optics and photonics professionals formerly known as OSA.
11/1/2023
The Penn State-led Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES) held its first annual center review on Sept. 5-6 at University Park. The following is a Q&A about the annual meeting, the progress CHIMES has made and its goals for the upcoming year and beyond.
10/26/2023
The Graduate School at Penn State welcomed 20 new National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program recipients for the 2023-24 academic year. Five College of Engineering graduate students received the fellowship, and two engineering graduate students were recognized as honorable mentions.
10/19/2023
A new electrical method to conveniently change the direction of electron flow in some quantum materials could have implications for the development of next-generation electronic devices and quantum computers.
10/11/2023
Nine newly tenured or promoted faculty members in the College of Engineering were asked to select a book title for the University Libraries’ permanent collection and to submit a personal statement explaining why they chose that book.
10/5/2023
The Graduate School at Penn State recognized 114 students as recipients of the 2023-24 University Graduate Fellowships and Distinguished Graduate Fellowships, including 22 students from the College of Engineering.
10/4/2023
Can artificial intelligence (AI) get hungry? Develop a taste for certain foods? Not yet, but a team of Penn State researchers is developing a novel electronic tongue that mimics how taste influences what we eat based on both needs and wants, providing a possible blueprint for AI that processes information more like a human being.
10/3/2023
A multi-institutional project led by a Penn State researcher is focused on developing an all-in-one semiconductor device that can both store data and perform computations. The project recently received $2 million in funding over three years as part of the new National Science Foundation Future of Semiconductors program.
9/29/2023
A video that highlights the work a Penn State team is doing to?3D print houses that can sustain life on Mars?is featured in a new $8.5 million core exhibit opening Nov. 4 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
9/19/2023
Three student teams will continue their work using artificial intelligence (AI) to make a positive impact in the world with $25,000 awarded to them for a minimum viable product (MVP) created during the 2023?Nittany AI Challenge.
9/18/2023
Penn State, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, hosted the first of a series of workshops on August 29 — the India-U.S. Defense Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X) Academia and Startup Programming Partnership — designed to share best practices and foster defense innovation translation through academic collaboration and startups.
9/1/2023
Two faculty members from the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science — William E. Leonhard Chair Professor Madhavan Swaminathan and Emerita Evan Pugh Professor Mary Jane Irwin — received Technical Field Awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
8/28/2023
A team of Penn State researchers has received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to spearhead a new initiative to create novel monitoring systems for insect populations.
8/23/2023
Paul Medvedev, professor of computer science and engineering and of biochemistry and molecular biology, and Marta Tomaszkiewicz, assistant research professor of biomedical engineering, are co-authors on a paper that reveals the first full sequencing of the human sex chromosome.
8/11/2023
Five student teams from Penn State’s Engineering Leadership Development program in the School of Engineering Design and Innovation earned recognition in the 17th-annual University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs, sponsored by the Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program.
8/8/2023
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, discusses the need for artificial intelligence regulation from lawmakers that also allows for innovation and advancement in an article from LancasterOnline.
8/3/2023
This article originally appeared on Penn State News. It highlights work by researchers from Penn State’s Two-Dimensional Crystal Consortium-Materials Innovation Platform (2DCC-MIP) that may help speed development of 2D semiconductors. 2DCC-MIP is directed by Joan Redwing, professor of materials science and engineering and electrical engineering.
7/17/2023
Nine Penn State student teams are gaining hands-on experience as they work to use artificial intelligence (AI) for good to solve real-world problems in the areas of health, environment, education and humanitarianism in the 2023?Nittany AI Challenge.
7/13/2023
Marshall Hart has been named the College of Engineering student marshal for Penn State's summer 2023 commencement ceremony, to be held on Aug. 12.
7/11/2023
When President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS (Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors) and Science Act on Aug. 9, 2022, to accelerate U.S. manufacturing of semiconductors, Penn State took action. The University created the Mid-Atlantic Semiconductor Hub (MASH) with other academic partners, industry and state governments to lead and leverage the cumulative expertise in this area.
7/7/2023
Penn State students working with the Nittany AI Alliance, including a team from the College of Engineering, are sparking innovation at the University by exploring how artificial intelligence can help simplify the application and transfer process.
7/6/2023
Penn State was named one of 21 founding member institutions of Micron Technology’s newly formed Northeast University Semiconductor Network, established to prepare the next generation of the U.S. semiconductor industry’s workforce.
6/30/2023
Non-tenure-line faculty promotions at Penn State, effective July 1, 2023, include more than 20 engineering faculty members.
6/29/2023
Fourteen graduate students from Penn State have been awarded research fellowships from the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium, including three from the College of Engineering.
6/26/2023
A Penn State-led research team identified a molecular marker to predict the invasiveness of a cancerous tumor and how the cells may invade elsewhere in the body.
6/21/2023
Interesting Engineering published an article about the student team developing a portable microwave system for lunar construction applications in NASA’s Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge.
6/20/2023
A Penn State research team has developed a time and cost-efficient digital assay that can directly measure the presence of HIV in single drop of blood. It's the first step in producing a clinical diagnostic tool that can help physicians understand how patients are responding to anti-viral medications and monitor potential progression.
6/12/2023
The Penn State College of Engineering will recognize 10 alumni with the Early Career Award for their achievements and demonstrated commitment to their professions, communities and Penn State at a ceremony on June 16 at University Park.
6/12/2023
A team of undergraduate students in Penn State’s Student Space Programs Laboratory, housed in the College of Engineering’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was one of seven university teams selected to receive funding from NASA to build a prototype in the BIG Idea Challenge. Penn State received $130,000 to develop a microwave system that can smelt metal on the moon.
6/12/2023
Tenured and tenure-line faculty promotions at Penn State, effective July 1, 2023, include more than 25 engineering faculty members.
6/7/2023
A five-year, $3 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases will support testing of the Healthy Mom Zone, a personalized intervention designed to help pregnant women with high BMI stay within healthy weight-gain ranges.
5/31/2023
A team of researchers in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science aims to enable health care and extended reality — which encompasses virtual, augmented and mixed reality — with their smart sensing ring, OmniRing.
5/26/2023
A newly endowed scholarship will support Penn State Schreyer Honors College Scholars in the College of Engineering and the Smeal College of Business. A pledge from Scholar alumna Elana Messina and her husband, Robert Messina, an electrical engineering alumus, created the scholarship named in their honor.
5/17/2023
Penn State Professors Madhavan Swaminathan and Doug Werner were selected as 2023 fellows by the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.
5/15/2023
Funded with a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the new AI Institute for Societal Decision Making will improve the response to societal challenges such as disaster management and public health by creating human-centric AI tools to assist with critical decisions. Christopher Dancy, the Harold and Inge Marcus Industrial and Manufacturing Career Development Associate Professor in the Penn State College of Engineering, will lead one of the research thrusts of the institute.
5/12/2023
A group of Penn State computer science graduate students received international attention in March when they were declared world finalists at the Microsoft Imagine Cup, where students across the globe compete to create software applications to solve technical challenges.
5/3/2023
The CoLab, an upper-level architecture, architectural engineering and landscape architecture studio course, combines six disciplines in one studio experience where students learn from industry professionals.
4/26/2023
Penn State Berks students Lillie Mohn, a mechanical engineering major, and Jenicy Strong, a computer engineering major, took first place in the fourth Women in Engineering Design Competition at Penn State Altoona.
4/26/2023
The winners of the 15th annual Materials Visualization Competition, a scientific visual and artistic competition sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State, have been announced.
4/25/2023
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2023 commencement ceremony. One student is selected to represent each of the 14 majors associated with the college and the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program.
4/10/2023
An app that can help prevent allergy attacks when ordering meals from restaurants was the winning idea in the 2023 Bardusch Family IdeaMakers Challenge, held March 22 during Penn State Startup Week powered by PNC.
4/6/2023
Penn State’s Epsilon Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the student honors society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, was selected to receive the 2021-22 Outstanding Chapter Award.
4/6/2023
A team co-led by the Penn State Student Space Programs Lab has been selected as one of 70 teams to participate in the 2023-24 Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project, co-sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation.
4/6/2023
Forty Penn State graduate students, seven of whom are students in the College of Engineering, were named recipients of Penn State’s annual graduate student awards, administered by the Graduate School in collaboration with several Penn State units.
3/30/2023
A Penn State-led team has discovered a new physical mechanism explaining naturally occurring X-rays associated with lightning activity in the Earth’s atmosphere.
3/29/2023
The? Penn State Microbiome Center, in coordination with the lab of David Koslicki, associate professor of computer science and engineering and of biology and a co-hire of the Huck Institute of the Life Sciences at Penn State, is offering access to the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes to all Penn State faculty, staff and students for free.
3/28/2023
The Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science’s summer camps are back for another year of in-person, hands-on learning! Both camps are geared toward girls but open to participants of all identities.
3/27/2023
Veena Sreekantamurthy, an electrical engineering master’s student, spent the summer interning in NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation Internship Project (SIP). A journal published by NASA highlighted the contributions made by Sreekantamurthy and other SIP interns.
3/24/2023
Undergraduate students from the College of Engineering at Penn State were among the winners of the 2023 Invent Penn State Inc.U Competition.
3/23/2023
A unique collaboration between a student from the Penn State Smeal College of Business and a student from the College of Engineering’s Engineering Leadership Development Program produced a successful result in the Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering Case Competition.
3/22/2023
Christos Argyropoulos, Penn State associate professor of electrical engineering and associate research professor in the Applied Research Laboratory, is the recipient of the 2023 European Association on Antennas and Propagation Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics.
3/16/2023
A trio of Penn State researchers were selected for the National Science Foundation’s National I-Corps Program to offer a foundry service for manufacturing sensors and integrated circuits made of two-dimensional materials for use in a variety of industries, including Internet of Things applications, food processing, pharmaceutical and various defense needs.
3/10/2023
The Penn State College of Engineering’s Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education held its biannual speaking contest on Feb. 7, showcasing students’ skills in translating technical knowledge into engaging presentations.
3/10/2023
Research led by Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Penn State, to develop the first ultrathin, compact metalens telescope was featured by Interesting Engineering.
3/8/2023
Eleven Penn State engineering graduates have been selected to receive the College of Engineering’s Outstanding Engineering Alumni Awards. The ceremony will take place on March 13 at The Penn Stater.
3/6/2023
Renee Frohnert, Penn State electrical engineering alumna, was an invited speaker at the TEDxPSU annual conference on Feb. 12 in Schwab Auditorium.
3/6/2023
Five faculty members in Penn State’s College of Engineering were recognized with National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. Each project ranges in duration from three and a half to five years, funded by grants worth roughly $500,000.
3/3/2023
Aida Ebrahimi, Thomas and Sheila Roell Early Career Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $500,000 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Tunable Graphene Microdevices for Multiplexed Detection of Biomolecules Beyond Diffusion Limit.”
3/3/2023
Christopher Dancy, Harold and Inge Marcus Industrial and Manufacturing Career Development Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and of Computer Science and Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $581,257 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “SocioCulturally Competent Agents to Study and Improve Human-AI Interaction.”?
3/3/2023
Syed Rafiul Hussain, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, earned a five-year, $557,183 NSF CAREER Award for a project titled “Principled approaches to securing next-generation cellular networks.”
3/3/2023
Astronomers and amateurs alike know the bigger the telescope, the more powerful the imaging capability. To keep the power but streamline one of the bulkier components, a Penn State-led research team created the first ultrathin, compact metalens telescope capable of imaging far-away objects, including the moon.
2/15/2023
Penn State's Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs has named seven distinguished professors for 2023. Pingjuan Werner, distinguished professor of engineering at Penn State DuBois, was honored with the title.
2/14/2023
Seventeen new faculty members have joined the Penn State College of Engineering since early fall 2022. The 12 tenured or tenure-line faculty and six professional track faculty represent 11 units and departments and include one new department head.
2/13/2023
Reconfigurable antennas are integral to future communication network systems, like 6G, but many current designs fall short. Penn State electrical engineering researchers combined electromagnets with a compliant mechanism to create a proof-of-concept reconfigurable compliant mechanism-enabled patch antenna that addresses current industry limitations.
2/1/2023
Technology company Intel awarded Penn State $50,000 to develop a three-credit college course on programming quantum computers. Swaroop Ghosh, Penn State associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will serve as principal investigator.
1/30/2023
Rongming Chu, associate professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was awarded a $191,650 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense. The grant, part of the $59 million Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), will be used to equip Chu’s power semiconductor device characterization lab.
1/24/2023
Ram Narayanan, professor of electrical engineering in Penn State’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was named one of 11 recipients of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras’s (IIT Madras) 2023 Distinguished Alumnus Award.
1/23/2023
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, the Penn State College of Engineering’s associate dean for innovation and the A. Robert Noll Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, was honored with the distinguished service award by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Design Automation.
1/13/2023
With a four-year, $1,800,000 National Science Foundation grant, Houtan Jebelli, assistant professor of architectural engineering, is leading a research team to develop an artificial intelligence-enabled, real-time and context-aware holistic health monitoring approach for construction workers.
1/10/2023
Penn State is partnering with nine other universities to establish the Processing with Intelligent Storage and Memory center, led by the University of California San Diego.
1/6/2023
Forbes highlighted Penn State’s newly created $32.7 million Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES) in an article discussing universities across the country that have created microelectronic research centers as part of the Joint University Microelectronics Program (JUMP 2.0) initiative.
1/5/2023
The Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0, a consortium of industrial partners in cooperation with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has announced the creation of a $32.7 million, Penn State-led Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES).
