Engineering Penn State Magazine
Engineering Penn State is published by the Office of Engineering College Relations in the College of Engineering and is sent to engineering alumni and friends. To receive the online version of our magazine, email your request to Stefanie Tomlinson.
Issues from the following years are available online:
2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997
Fall 2012
- An unexpected journey: A random email and an unusal fruit send Penn State engineers on an African quest
- Clean gas: Microbe may help turn electricity into methane gas
- Power savings: Breakthrough may pave the way for more energy-efficient transistors
Fall 2011/Winter 2012
- Virtual teaming: Faculty give students global experience through the use of information technology
- Game plan: Architectural engineers look for better ways to gather feedback during design review
- Charging forward: New center allows researchers opportunities to design, build advanced batteries under one roof
Spring 2011
- Changing the game: Engineering tapped by U.S. Department of Energy to lead $129 million effort in energy-efficient buildings
- Legacy of leadership: Renata Engel is another in a long line of Penn State deans to serve as president of ASEE
- Moon shot: Penn State engineers are among one of the teams competing for the Lunar X PRIZE
Fall 2010
- Missions to Morocco: Editor Curtis Chan follows faculty member Richard Schuhmann and a team of Penn State engineers on a trip to the village of Tiout
- Searching for answers: Penn State engineer and neurosurgeon Steven Schiff investigates the mystery of post-infectious hydrocephalus among infants in Africa
- Bridging borders: The newly formed Engineers Without Borders student team heads to Sierra Leone
Spring 2010
- Solar economy: An engineer embarks on two projects to quell the world’s thrist for energy
- Clean water act: A civil engineer looks to use natural methods to clean drinking water
- Green talk: A conversation with the Center for Sustainability’s David Riley
- Growing green: The Center for Sustainability unveils its master site plan
Spring/Summer 2009
- Gut check: A group of mechanical engineering researchers tries to understand how the body digests and absorbs nutrients
- On target: A chemical engineering team creates a new microsyringe that may send drugs where they’re needed in the body
- Healing health care: Engineers look to apply their expertise in addressing some of health care’s biggest issues
Fall 2008
- How safe is your vote? A team led by Patrick McDaniel probes vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines
- Outdating false alarms: An innovative technique may render false alarms in car security systems a thing of the past
- Power for science: The new Institute for CyberScience expands computer power research
Fall 2007/Winter 2008
- Helping hands: Countless engineering students and organizations pitch in on campus and in the community almost every day
- Small wonders: A team of engineers led by faculty member Mary Frecker is devising ultra-small surgical tools to help doctors
- Bay watch: A chance meeting leads to a research project for one civil engineering faculty member and his undergraduate student in Alaska
Fall 2006
- Damage control: Researchers look at new ways to minimize the impact of natural disasters
- Fuel of dreams: Penn State hosts Pennsylvania’s first hydrogen fueling station
- Electric ears: An engineer shows corn waste may provide more than just ethanol
- Can you hear me now? A graduate student and her adviser try to find out how sound would work on Mars
Spring 2006
- A winning approach: Penn State’s Learning Factory garners a top honor in engineering education
- Catching stardust: Engineering faculty members take part in a historic mission to find out what comets are made of
- The sound of gas: Researchers use changes in pitch to analyze gas
- Fighting cancer online: computer scientists develop an online analytical toolbox for cancer and other biomedical research
Fall 2005
- Penn State engineering: An economic engine
- Grants foster collaboration: A new grant program strengthens the ties between engineering and medicine
- NASA troubleshoots with Penn State gear: Engineers develop a wire-testing instrument used to diagnose problems on the space shuttle
- Girl power: A new tool helps identify what works to encourage women in engineering
Summer 2005
- Pushing medicine’s boundaries: Engineers are helping doctors by unearthing new knowledge and creating new technologies
- Space obstacles: An engineering science and mechanics faculty member says black holes and other objects may hinder our efforts to find the origins of the universe
- Signs of the times: A collaboration with Penn State engineers yields road signs that are easier to read
- Team receives $6.7 million grant: NSF helps establish a center for environmental kinetics at Penn State
Spring 2005
- Power plays: Engineers are turning to wastewater, hydrogen, recycled plastics, and other places for new sources of energy
- Nuclear family: The country’s first research reactor, Penn State’s Breazeale Reactor, turns 50
- Good NABIR: Two environmental engineers receive $1.3 million grant from the Department of Energy
Summer 2004
Spring 2004
Winter 2004
- Star struck: For many Penn State engineers, the allure of space travel and exploration remains strong
- Mission accomplished: Students get experience with hands-on rocketry class
- A good fit: NASA gives students a helping hand to the cosmos
- Solar sailing: Engineers hope to use the sun to power a new generation of space vehicles
Spring 2003
- Building biomedical breakthroughs: A look at how engineers and doctors bring their talents together to pioneer new medical advances
- Making man and machine compatible: Chemical engineering professor is studying the membrane device that makes kidney dialysis possible
- New class is instrumental to education
Summer 2002
- Engineering the new economy: The Industrial Age and Information Age are melding to forge new, exciting possibilities
- New laboratory brings factory floor to engineering students
- Manufacturing management graduate program integrates business with engineering
- IME Inc. allows students to take ideas from concept to product
Spring 2002
Summer 2001
- What’s on your plate? Researchers in the agricultural and biological engineering department are examining ways to improve food safety and quality
- Creating the right combo: New computer model predicts the outcome of DNA shuffling
- Curing concrete: Engineers develop “smart” meter to measure concrete readiness
- Getting a good estimate: SimplePower offers microprocessor designers a faster energy estimation tool
Spring 2001
- Lake effects: Solving the mystery of Utah’s Great Salt Lake
- Back to nature: Going behind “The Living Machine”
- Sniffing for clues: New portal may stop terrorists in their tracks
- Seeing is believing: Engineers develop image processing methods for computer-vision-based fuel gauge
- Sign of the times: Engineers examine effectiveness of signs
Fall 2000
- Spotting the connection: Bioengieers find new link between inflammation and blood vessels
- Damage control: Architectural engineers look at new ways to minimize the impact of hurricanes and tornadoes
- Paying dividends: Penn State research spin-off generates graduate student support
- Virtual data, virtual worlds: High-tech set-up lets researchers get into their work in a way that was never thought possible
Summer 2000
- Keep on truckin’: Engineering students creating a leaner, greener SUV
- The tip of the iceberg: Little did a Penn State aerospace engineering professor know that a simple phone call would change the face of sailplanes—and more
- An array of possibilities: Fractals offer new directions in antenna design
- Engineering better teachers: New course inspires students about teaching engineering
Spring 2000
Fall 1999
- Building the six million dollar man: Bioengineering offers promise of longer, better living
- A meeting ground for meeting needs: EMPRL forges new directions
- Measuring the tides of change: How effective are the changes taking place in engineering education?
- Controlling ice cream: Modeling the Creamery operation
Summer 1999
- A Grand Destiny: The Penn State campaign
- Hot technology for large cooling systems: Chilled water thermal storage
- Getting a longer lease on life: Additive increases life, lowers costs, of concrete bridge decks
- New technique cuts computer circuit energy needs, maintains speed
- Engineers develop simulation for ultrafine particle growth processes
Spring 1999
- Firing up the next generation: Rapid production tooling is poised to heat up industry
- Being a part from the start: First-year seminars give students a jump-start
- New Penn State software predicts battery failure
- From IV bags to bionic man: Ferro-polymer has new capabilities
- New grad minor teaches students to tackle problems with parallel computers
Fall 1998
Summer 1998
Winter 1998
